Client : WSI
Job Title :Principal Product Manager
Location: Claremont, NC (5 Days Onsite)
Position Type: Long Term
12 years of related techno-functional / Product Management experience.
Experience in discreet manufacturing, ideally using Microsoft Dynamics AX/Dynamics 365 for finance, inventory management and operations (purchasing raw materials, fulfilling purchase orders).
Experience with related manufacturing and supply chain operations, ecommerce and order management processes.
Experience in organizing, planning, and executing large-scale Supply Chain projects from vision, requirements gathering, solutioning, and all steps of implementation (UAT, Training, hyper care).
Description:
Product Management is responsible for overseeing the lifecycle, from inception to retirement, of IT products that are delivered to our customers, business associates and consumers. The job family manages the relationship between business functions and IT to provide IT product and user experience solutions to meet the needs of the business.
Specific Responsibilities
Responsibility for domains of the highest complexity and strategic value
Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization to provide product and user experience solutions to meet the business needs
Ability to identify the business organization's strength and weakness and suggests areas of improvement
Responsible for developing BRD's, negotiating agreements, providing product/project leadership and expertise
Possesses expert-level knowledge of technical design specifications and may lead technology peers to help develop solutions
Possesses and often shares subject-matter expertise or in-depth technical knowledge, uses expertise to further development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways
Provides tactical work direction to team members
Expert-level knowledge of product management best practices, functional design and application delivery methodology
Customer focused with high quality standards, must possess excellent presentation skills
Demonstrates outstanding interpersonal, business communication and project management skills
Experience working in a retail technology organization, preferred
Works on complex issues of highest complexity and strategic value where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including a broad understanding of current business trends
Follows processes and operational policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
Acts as an advisor to associates to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems
Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements; may have budget responsibilities
Strong decision-making capabilities can help organization achieve results and can impact the short-term and multi-year goals of the company
Frequently interacts with customers, and/or functional peer group IC'S/managers, normally involving matters between functional areas, other company divisions or units, or customers and the company
Regularly interacts with business leadership at all levels
Often leads a cooperative effort among members of a project team
Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments
Provides work direction to other associates in group