Director/Senior Director - Eagan, United States - Thomson Reuters

Description

Do you love challenges and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment? Are you a collaborative learner who wants to make a lasting impact on our company's success? Do you think of creative solutions to complex problems and solve them? Do you have experience managing complex, transformative, and innovative technology products, and programs? If so, this role is for you.

We are seeking an outstanding Product Management Leader to drive future of our Go-to-Market sales systems, specifically focused on customer success management, professional services, territory management, forecasting, sales enablement, conversational intelligence solutions . You will partner with our segments, regions, global sales operations, digital, commercial engineering, customer to cash and data & analytics teams to lead the global product strategy and roadmap.

You will oversee the process, business requirements gathering, design, bring industry best practices, trends and issues, and innovative solutions to our Sales organization. You will validate from a business process prospective that the overall solution design meets and supports the business goals and/or objectives, as identified in the visioning sessions and through general interactions.

The ideal candidate will bring technology-enabled, large-scale Business Transformation experience and knowledge of industry trends, leveraging this credibility as a strategic advisor to our Sales teams. Critical to the role is the ability to think strategically about business and technical challenges as you drive efficiencies and quick innovation available on our Go-to-Market Systems. You will possess strong facilitation and synthesis skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders on a common path forward, ensuring Business and IT executives embrace joint ownership for results.

About the Role
In this opportunity as Director/Senior Director - GTM Product Management, you will:

• Facilitate & drive conversations through workshops at multiple levels including but not limited to business process discovery / design etc.
• Understand overall business goals / objectives for programs / projects in collaboration with Sales Ops and key business stakeholders
• Be able to strategize with stakeholders on how they can improve their business
• Bring industry and/or business process best practice expertise to the stakeholders
• Proactively recommend requirements and/or process improvements to the stakeholders
• Oversee elicitation of the business requirements (user stories) through the management of the Business Process Analysts during the requirements gathering phase
• Partner with the product managers to set and align business priorities
• Be responsible for validating that the delivered product meets the strategic business objectives through activities such as demos, UAT, etc.
• Support business development based on their expertise

About You
You're a fit for the role of Director/Senior Director - GTM Product Management if your background includes:

• 10+ years in enterprise-level technology transformation programs
• Go-To-Market sales operation experience, including scoping and demos/presentations
• Salesforce, Gainsight, Certinia, Xactly, Mindtickle and Gong product knowledge and solution design strongly desired.
• Experience in systems design, business strategy, product management, Agile, Program Governance, Experience Design, Change Management and/or Value Realization
• Knowledge of the concepts, practices, procedures, and deliverables associated with solution development, implementation, and operational readiness
• Ability to analyze and synthesize complex information, working in situations where data may be absent or ambiguous and creative approaches are required
• Results-oriented, impact driven and strategic thinker that enjoys helping stakeholders from current state to future state
• Creative, high-energy, entrepreneurial self-starter comfortable running initiatives and programs independently within a "start up-paced" company
• Thrive working collaboratively and cross-functionally, particularly with Sales, Solution and Technical Architects, Designers and External Partners

What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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As a global business we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.