Product Manager

• Candidate should have 12 - 20 years of total experience in Business Analysis / Business Consulting / Product Management role.
• Preferably has previous experience in Air Cargo Domain or related areas such as supply chain management
• Should be able to document, review and suggest improvements to product requirements or business use case document, system specification documents
• Hands on experience in R&D design, business case development and budgeting
• Has direct client site exposure on fit and gap, road map discussions and implementation.
• Hands on experience in product implementation such as conducting customer fit and gap workshops, product configuration and product rollout activities
• Preferably has experience in customer account management from business perspective
• Participation in opportunity analysis by creating analytical collaterals for decision making
• Participate in pre-sales activities like lead generation, proposal creation, marketing collateral creation, client presentations, demos
• Lead business process flows analysis and operational procedures related to the business domain
• Experience in reviewing Test Cases, support Acceptance Testing phases, conduct Train the Trainer phases, support End User Training sessions
• Has primary experience with application go-live hand holding post go live for large/mission critical applications
• Should have owned and participated in the complete life cycle for more than one product development / implementation activity and / or handling sales presentations/demo/product roadmap discussions.
• Expertise in agile requirements management processes including but not limited to maintaining product backlogs, developing and maintaining user stories, sprint grooming / product envisioning, sprint planning and overall sprint team activities
• Good understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Understanding of techniques involved in deriving requirement prioritization, managing conflicting requirements, change management challenges and MVP (minimum viable product) approach to deal with large / complex requirements
• Updated about the emerging trends and technological advancements in the industry, domain.
• Participate as product expert in customer engagements. Knowledge on business process and customer challenges in specific business areas.
• Proven ability to act as a consultant to customers to influence their business processes.
• Should have very good interpersonal skills and be able to coordinate with multiple teams like project management, testing team, base product, customer IT, customer vendors and customer business.
• Have adequate awareness on Overall Sales & Delivery Process including Business Finance.
• Has good exposure on tools and methods including Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, MPP, XML standards, SQL Developer.
• Willingness to work from offshore or onsite locations as the situation demands
• Should have demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement including company senior management, customers, partners etc.
• Demonstrated experience in creating and delivering product related marketing artefacts such as white papers, blogs, webinars etc.
• Should have experience in leading high performance teams – particularly in product feature development roles
• Experience in working with cross cultural and cross discipline teams – such as sales, development, account managers, Ux designers and so on

Good to have

• Industry standard certifications, attended Industry Forums, paper presentation will be an added advantage