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The Manager Product Management is responsible for managing the technology lifecycle of new products, features or enhancements from conceptualization, requirements gathering, product specification, implementation, review and release. Together with a team of product owners, this role evaluates technical options and represents business and customer requirements to the engineering organization, along with managing the product roadmap. The Manager Product Management leads a team of product owners responsible for developing, managing and optimizing one or more small to medium-sized products.WHAT YOU'LL DO:Provide leadership and day-to-day direction to execute on short-term objectives for overall management of designated line of product(s) through the full product lifecycle, including the creation and execution of new products and features as well as enhancements, extensions and retirements of existing products. Ensure the mission and the values of the client are represented and incorporated throughout the product lifecycle.
Take part in creating an operating model that ensures agile product delivery teams have the clarity and support they need to maximize product value and overall return on investment.
Partner and collaborate closely with leaders, P&L Owners, Technology, Marketing, Client Success, Sales, and Operations Support partners and other leaders to ensure successful product strategy, design, delivery, and implementation efforts.
Ensure their team is delivering on targeted financial, strategic, and operational short to mid-term commitments.
Oversee short-term workforce and staffing plans and ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish planned business results.
Maintain an understanding of competitive position, target market and overall industry landscape that supports the work to define and create product(s).
Leverage specialized understanding of our product capabilities and product offerings as well as marketplace trends to inform and help guide our overall product strategy in a rapidly changing digital landscape.
Use influence and contribute to Cox Automotive Product thought leadership within area leadership regarding operational matters.
Foster effective business relationships with all internal and external partners, vendors and stakeholders.
Actively develop talent within the team.
Lead and resolve business issues or problems that have department wide impact for short-term operational goals.
Provides direction to a team of Product Owners responsible for a small to mid-sized portfolio of projects.
Contributes to near-and long-range planning within assigned area of responsibility.
Drives business analysis and experimentation, capturing insights that inform product design and development.
Manages the complete life cycle of assigned products from concept to retirement.
Ensures cross-functional team support on all aspects of product design, development and execution.
Monitors customer experience and identifies/recommends enhancements to improve that experience and lead to greater adoption.
Establishes and consults on best practices and standard operating procedures for product development, deployment, implementation and support.
Analytical Thinking - Possesses the foundational knowledge and ability to apply effective analytical techniques and tools. Analyzes organizational issues, determines the root cause, and creates alternative solutions that are in the best interest of the business. Approaches situations by defining the issue, determining its significance, and identifying the forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand. Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of data and arrive at conclusions, applying flow charts, diagrams, and other tools as necessary. Able to systematically compare and assess varied alternative solutions.
Business Acumen - Applies foundational knowledge of economic, financial, market and industry trends to understand and improve individual, work group and/or organizational results. Demonstrates an understanding of major business functions, industry trends and own organization's position to contribute to effective business strategies and/or tactics. Analyzes economic, financial, market and industry information from multiple sources to identify trends, assess current business strategies and results and/or evaluate specific opportunities. Articulates the implications of trends for own department or team as well as for the broader organization. Understands the nature and interdependencies of the organization's departments and functions. Understands the industry and leverages that understanding to maximize results, limit risks and effectively contribute to the team, department and/or broader organization.
Project Administration & Management - Foundational knowledge of and ability to use, organizational methods, practices and tools for administering, facilitating and/or managing projects. Utilizes project administration and/or management tools for project-related time and resource estimation, dependency identification, conflict identification, task assignments, documentation and reporting. Documents project meetings, including status reports on deliverables and next steps. Develops cost-benefit analyses, tracking and reviewing actual versus planned costs. Ensures project-related problems are surfaced, documented and reported to appropriate project personnel and/or management.
Requirements Analysis - Foundational knowledge and ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project. Engages with the customers, users and other stakeholders to extract and gather requirements. Utilizes organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis. Confirms deliverables, challenges, conflicts and expectations associated with requirements analysis. Determines additional functional and informational requirements, prepares models and documentation.
Technology Savvy - Foundational knowledge of technology and its ability to improve work processes and results (e.g., enhance productivity, efficiency, collaboration, quality, or customer satisfaction). Uses technology to solve work-related problems, find new methods to enhance results, and create new business opportunities. Pursues opportunities to develop knowledge and experiments with emerging technology solutions that can help accomplish work goals.
Other duties as needed or requiredfoundational skillsBuilds Partnerships - Proactively builds, nurtures and maintains business-focused, long-term working relationships with partners inside and outside of the organization. Demonstrates flexibility when forming and adjusting partnerships to achieve broader goals. Shows willingness to work across boundaries to achieve outcomes addressing business, customer and partner goals and expectations.
Engages Others - Asks for others' ideas and builds on their ideas to reach mutually agreeable solutions. Seeks and respects alternative approaches and conflicting viewpoints to identify points of agreement. Empathizes with others' concerns.
Guides Team Success - Ensures that the team's purpose and importance are defined, clarified, and understood. Guides the team in setting specific and measurable short-and long-term goals. Builds others' sense of taskWHO YOU ARE:Requires a Bachelor's Degree in related field; Advanced degree is a plus
Minimum of 6+ years of related work experience at least 3 years' experience in a management/leadership role
Applies leadership experience building and leading high