Product Management Manager
- Posted 17 February 2023
- LocationSingapore
- Job type Permanent
- Reference62825
Company's Benefits
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Paid Parental Leave
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Flexible Working Arrangements
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Mentorship Program
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Leadership Development Program
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Raise Numbers Of Women In Leadership
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Internal Women's Networking Group
Job Description
Role Overview:
You will be expected to be well versed with systems thinking, design thinking, innovation frameworks, disruption principles, and be a natural problem solver.
You will closely collaborate with the UX and Innovation teams at Avanade during incubation and rapid prototyping to demonstrate the impact of new innovations and concepts to internal and external stakeholders.
You should be comfortable working with our clients on their Design and Innovation Strategy which falls into three themes:
Strategic Innovation: Identification, experimentation and scaling up of ideas around a strategic theme to disrupt, pivot, majorly reshape business objectives;
Future of Work: Hybrid workplace, Gig economy, Future of Collaboration. Well-being and employee productivity – reimagining work at the intersection of people, process, and technology; and
Human Centric Adoption Management: Systems design thinking to ensure people, process, technology align to deliver business outcomes.
Key Role Responsibilities:
Provide design leadership to various parts of our business, demonstrating the effectiveness of a design thinking approach to the mission of the team.
Conduct research that will help provide insights to problems our customers are trying to understand and the solutions they hope to deliver, by speaking to the Users, Development Teams, and Support Teams often to gain those insights.
Understand customer's business requirements and create appropriate value proposition using Avanade offerings across service lines to drive the RFx response.
Turn user insights and identified opportunities into differentiating concepts, services, and solutions.
Facilitate and develop workshops and co-creation sessions.
Job Requirements:
Experience working in/ with top Oil and Gas companies and/or Financial Services companies
Experience gathering requirements (from customers, other stakeholders) to build and guide project/product roadmaps, including use of requirements-gathering tools/technologies
Experience working with senior product team on market / customer research to create business plans for software products/solutions that align with Avanade strategic direction
Sitecore Experience Manager (XM) and Experience Profile (xDB) 9+, with multi-site, multi-data enter, multi-language, and component framework experience
Experience working in an Azure cloud environment
Experience implementing software products by working with UX design, development, and management of multiple large agile team environment
Experience with global digital marketing initiatives
Strong understanding and implementation experience with devising Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy and product backlog to achieve business objectives
Strong understanding and implementation experience with web accessibility standards to achieve business objectives
Strong understanding and implementation experience with GDPR cookie consent compliance
Strong experience with web and mobile products
Strong knowledge of software development and implementation lifecycles
Strong internal/external stakeholder interaction; includes presenting to and influencing Executive level decision-makers
Experience in conducting primary and secondary research on markets including market segments, geographies, products, and industry
Demonstrated ability to understand different business models and strategies
Participate in discussion with business partners to provide guidance in the test field
Knowledge and understanding of quality assurance and testing processes with strong attention to detail
Coach and advise clients on UAT strategies and internal testers to achieve zero defect quality targets for UAT and go-live
Apply business and functional knowledge including testing standards, guidelines, and testing methodology to meet the team's overall test objectives
Experience working with, managing, and influencing virtual teams, including offshore
Knowledgeable about project/program financials (e.g., budgeting, assessing financial impact, working with financial analysts)
Strong networking skills to build relationships quickly
Customer-oriented attitude with great presentation, interpersonal and negotiation skills
Preferred Years of Experience:
Minimally 10 years of working experience with 3 years in managerial role
Preferred Education Background:
You likely possess a minimum bachelor’s degree in Business, MIS, Economics, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
Preferred Certification(s):
Design Thinking Facilitator
Preferred Technical Skillsets include:
Azure Cloud
21Vianet Cloud
Coveo Enterprise Search
Coveo Cloud
Akamai CDN
Brightcove video player CDN
Google, Baidu, Yandex, and Bing Search Engine Optimization
Google Maps Integration
Yandex Maps Integration
Baidu Maps Integration
Google Analytics
Sitecore Analytics
Sitecore Personalization and A/B Testing
OneTrust GDPR Cookie Consent
OneTrust Marketing Preferences Management
BigData Reporting design
PowerBI
Azure DevOps
Visual Studio Team Services
Selenium
Browserstack
JIRA
Postman/Newman, REST-assured
Other Advantageous Skillsets include:
Experience as an outcome-oriented consulting leader with an entrepreneurial spirit who can balance practice leadership with role modeling high impact client work
Experience and Digital Strategy
Market Analysis
Competitive Research and Analysis
Business Canvas Creation
Leadership and Management
Benchmarking
Strategic Planning & Roadmap Development
Business Case Development
Business Capabilities Development
Operating Model Design
A strategic thinker with the ability to instill confidence in clients and across internal teams
Must be an excellent verbal and written communicator, comfortable preparing proposals, presentations and speaking in front of groups
Must be an initiative-taker and nimble multi-tasker, able to manage large, complex projects
Gathers and synthesizes feedback from clients, quantitative data, research reports, market trends to inform product requirements and vision; improves the collection of customer requirements
Partners with senior product team to develop product/solution concept
Prioritizes requirements and development backlog
Defines and clearly articulates/explains scenarios to internal audiences
Stays up-to-date on relevant product and technologies, adapting product strategy and roadmap to meet market demands and standards
Creates and regularly maintains the product/solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through the project's life cycle
Manages product/solution release content and schedules
Communicate the solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work -- including success criteria -- to development team
Communicates with more senior product/solution team to provide feedback on progress and implementation of vision
Verifies functionality and quality of product/solution releases, administering user acceptance testing as appropriate
Assists in developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, working across departments and with leadership to execute
Develops strong understanding of the business, and deep Avanade business acumen
What we offer you
Come for the distinctive experiences you have helping forward-thinking corporations, non-profits, and governments push the boundaries of digital innovation. Stay for the limitless learning opportunities that encourage you to master Microsoft and pursue big ideas. Enjoy ambitious growth for yourself as part of Avanade’s people-first culture with benefits like employee share purchasing, flexible work arrangements, a commitment to diversity and inclusion, and competitive pay.