The Product and Release Manager works closely with the various stakeholders to align EDEA’s products and platform roadmaps to business needs and monitor successful execution.
Understand the problems and gaps in current portfolio of products
Manage process for developing, prioritizing and communicating vision, strategy, and roadmap to solve the problems
Track timely delivery of commitments and oversee change management around launch of releases
Track that business and budget goals are met
Measure and report on product KPIs
Key Responsibilities and Major Duties:
Participate in strategic planning and demand management activities to develop and evolve roadmaps for portfolio of EDEA data products and underlying technology platforms that balance short-term needs with long term strategies in order and deliver expected benefits and synergy across products.
Work closely with EDEA digital capabilities managers to groom and prioritize the product and platform backlog to ensure roadmap are aligned, defined, and implemented across portfolio.
Define product and platform releases and lead change management activities including communications to stakeholders and enable adoption while minimizing impact.
Maintain EDEA technology inventory and define, track portfolio and product KPIs such as TCOs to enable cost optimization and minimize waste.
Define portfolio and product business plans and ensure that the plans are realized
Degree/Certification/Licensure:
BA/BS (or greater) degree in IS/CS or related disciplines with at least 10 years of experience working in software company or IT organization
Experience – Responsibility and minimum number of years
7+ years of Agile Methodology, Frameworks, and Tools (knowledge of SAFe is a plus)
5+ Software portfolio and Product Management experience preferably in the context of data and application integration, data engineering, data-warehousing and analytics
2+ years of experience with Program management, business case development and TCO analysis
2+ years of experience designing, capturing and analyzing product and marketing metrics, KPIs, and experiments to make product decisions
Ability to design and deliver products that delight the users
Familiarity with Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Big Data technology stack
Familiarity with data analytics and machine learning user workflow
Demonstrated ability to make product priority decisions based on data and experiments
Ability to influence DevOps teams, architects and work across multi-disciplined groups.
Strong interpersonal and team building skills, and able to build effective relationships with stakeholders, business partners, external partners and vendors.
Able to effectively partner and collaborate with a broad set of cross functional counterparts (GPS, Commercial, Enabling and R&D) to achieve organizational objectives
Can communicate effectively to audiences with varying degrees of technical knowledge
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate to a diverse audience at multiple levels within the company through various formats, such as presentations, written proposals, reports, correspondence, leading meetings, face-to-face dialogue etc.
Proven experience operating successfully in a complex organizational environment with internal teams and external partners to optimize solution and value delivery to meet technical requirements
Operate independently within the guidelines of overall position and objectives
Appropriately raise and escalate issues and/or risks and challenge assumptions
Demonstrates a strong attention to detail and a commitment to process quality, continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Confidence in the ability to influence and negotiate desired outcomes
Ensures best practice adoption within area of responsibility, applying appropriate levels of technical capability, standardization and subject matter expertise
Understands, demonstrates, and drives adherence to all BMS operating policies
Leads and continuously develops a diverse team across a complex matrix that has required business knowledge and appropriate skillsets, including recruiting of new team members
Ensures appropriate prioritization, consistent quality and timeliness in delivery to business stakeholders.
Supports and champions a culture of diversity and inclusion
Strong project management and people development skills
Creates energy, excitement & personal investment in others
Creates an environment that encourages continuous improvement, operational excellence, innovation, and informed risk taking
Works across organizational, functional & geographic boundaries including collaboration with third parties (e.g. Accenture, DXC, BT) to achieve company goals
Ability to translate broad strategies into specific objectives & action plans
Makes critical choices that support strategy & ultimately the end-customer
Software that must be used independently and without assistance (e.g., Microsoft Suite)
Jira
Microsoft Office Suite
MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, TeamsStrong communication and relationship building skills to establish trust and rapport with:
Key Stakeholders/Contacts
BMS DCG Delivery leads
EDAE Platform and Engineering Digital Capability Managers
