Job Description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Creve Coeur, MO, 63146

Duration: 6 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

• Product Managers ensure that products are fulfilling their primary purpose to enable users to perform tasks that create value for the company. Product managers have two broad areas of responsibility:

• Setting strategic vision for the product to ensure the customer and their needs are at the center; and ensuring team priorities are supporting business outcomes for customer, product, technical and enabling teams.

• This requires continual alignment of the product strategy and objectives with customer, product, technical, and enabling teams

• Managing the product backlog, which prioritizes the work of the assigned squads, to achieve the vision and aligned strategy.

• To successfully manage these areas of responsibility, product managers must have a deep understanding of the product domain, related technology, and architecture.

• Product Managers drive strategy and execution for multiple digital products that largely focus on one technical platform.

Key Responsibilities Outputs

Product Management

• The product manager is accountable for the overall success of a product throughout its lifecycle, from conception to decommissioning.

• They identify domain needs, develop, and validate product concepts, and build a business case.

• They oversee the product's build and launch, including any sourced services; as well as ensure product availability, stability, and compliance needs are met.

• Product managers collaborate with various teams, including product development, marketing, finance, legal, manufacturing, operations, and sales, as needed, to ensure cohesive progress and success.

• Product Managers drive agile best practices with the team to improve delivery, including continuous planning ahead of each development cycle (e.g. sprint planning) and working together to co-create user stories aligned with the product backlog prioritization.

• In addition to guiding the team product managers have duties like market opportunity identification, competitive analysis, sales enablement, or monitoring domain performance.

Stakeholder Engagement

• It is vital for the product manager to identify their key stakeholder group.

• Though many strong and loud opinions will be expressed, an effective product manager uses discretion to deliver their product in a way that meets the needs of users and stakeholders who will ensure value is realized for the client.

• Stakeholders should trust that the product manager not only understands their needs but will actively work to ensure their needs are met while delivering the product.

Product Strategy

• The product manager must provide strategic leadership with full end-to-end ownership for their assigned products throughout the entire product lifecycle.

• They are responsible for planning and optimizing capabilities to deliver business outcomes in the most efficient way.

• Product managers require strong strategic planning, decision making, and influencing skills to balance the needs of users and various stakeholders.

Product Discovery & Delivery

• The product manager is responsible for creating comprehensive product roadmaps, to clarify user needs and non-functional requirements.

• They provide product oversight by tracking and reporting progress against 90-day outcomes and overall product health (including budget responsibilities).

• They also plan and manage product delivery while streamlining the corresponding backlog.

• Product managers are responsible for monitoring user feedback and metrics to co-create solutions that drive a better user experience and deliver more business value.

• They leverage Design Thinking methodology starting with user needs to prioritize problems and through discovery they perform usability, feasibility, business fit and value testing to determine the optimal solution.

People & Collaboration

• Product managers must proactively communicate and collaborate with product users and stakeholders, which requires strong strategic communication skills.

• Effective cross-functional collaboration is critical for product managers, bringing together diverse skills and knowledge to deliver a valuable product. It's important to maintain strong and productive working relationships with colleagues in product management, engineering, and other technically focused organizations.

• Product managers are also responsible for mentoring more junior product managers to improve product management and agile practices across the community.

Qualifications, Competencies & Skills

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar or minimum 4 years equivalent practical experience in addition to:

• 3 or more years of relevant experience as a product manager

• 2 or more years of experience with Agile software development and DevOps

Preferred:

• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence initiatives that involve cross-functional teams from initiation to delivery

• Experience with Design Thinking, user-centered design & user analysis

• Ability to establish and manage initiatives against a set of key metrics and goals

• Strong analytical, management and organizational skills

• Strong verbal and written communication abilities: must effectively communicate with technical and non-technical people

• Experience in building product vision, product roadmap, and product strategy

• Proven experience in designing, developing, delivering or leading digital solutions

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity

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