Senior Product Manager, WorldShare Management Services - Dublin, United States - OCLC

Description

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The Job Details are as follows:

The Senior Product Manager is responsible for all aspects of product planning and development for WorldShare Management Services, including the Acquisitions and Circulation modules and the License Manager product line.

This role also provides critical input to the product marketing team in product release and promotional efforts.

The Product Manager is responsible for the following deliverables:

Produces product strategy, roadmaps, annual product plans, business cases, and monthly product reviews, launch plans, white papers, product presentations, market messaging, event support, competitive write-up, and user personas.

Contributes to the production of portfolio business plans, strategies, roadmaps, metrics, and operational plans; portfolio progress plans and reviews; user requirements and functional specs.

Responsibilities


Product Strategy and Planning:
Oversees market analysis and develops product strategy and business case. Defines strategic product goals.
Produces product roadmap
Collaborates on release plans with Development
Collaborates with finance in the production of product budgets and forecasts
Develops pricing strategies and product positioning plans which contribute to maximizing product profitability


Leadership and Management:
Manages a small team of product owners
Provides leadership to cross-functional product workgroups. Leads Product management meetings. Resolves conflicts and drives consensus.
Facilitates collaboration and communication and secures commitment between Development and Product Management workgroups towards achievement of common goals.
Develops and monitors progress on product roadmap

Product Marketing Oversight and Consultation:

Assists in the development of strategies for customer acquisition and retention; manages relationships with user groups and assists sales team in generation of marketing and awareness plans.

Understands how and when to commission market research in order to develop and maintain expertise in markets served, alternative services, new technology, and related standards.

Can generate appropriate information for market sizes by sector / territory and can generate market penetration statistics.
Provides training and support to the sales and support team; may assist in significant sales calls.
Analyses reasons for OCLC product wins and losses against competition and can provide meaningful information to aid product planning.
Will work to define and rationalize user personas
Will produce market/sector white papers


Consultation on Portfolio Planning:
Provides input into portfolio business plans, roadmaps, strategies, metrics, and progress reports and reviews


Mentoring/Support for Product Analysts:
Serves as mentor and support as needed for Product Analysts

Qualifications

Minimum Required

Bachelors Degree required, MBA a plus
Important traits include entrepreneurial attitude, team player, leadership skills and self-confidence
6 to 8 years experience in product, project or program management
A broad knowledge of library markets, information professionals and relevant technologies.
Well developed communication and presentation skills and demonstrated experience in presenting information at a senior management level
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional team environment and manage multiple priorities.
Demonstrated understanding of a Product Management Lifecycle model
Demonstrated ability with Financial planning and financial forecasting
Extensive understanding of technical capabilities and market requirements needed to develop innovative market plans
Strong customer relationship skills

Desired but not Required

Master of Library and Information Science degree
4 to 6 years experience in library services or library management systems, including Electronic Resource Management, Acquisitions, and Circulation applications

Working Conditions:
Normal office environment.

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The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job.

Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

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