Product Manager - e-Freight Suite

- As Product Manager, you will guide a team that is charged with a product line contribution as a business unit. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company.

- You will build products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospects.

- You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy,a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time in the market to understand their problems, and find innovative solutions for the broader market.

- You must be able to communicate with all areas of the company. You will work with an engineering counterpart to define product release requirements.

- You will work with marketing communications to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer.

- You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, occasionally working with the sales channel and key customers. A product manager's key role is strategic, not tactical.

Key Responsibilities :

- Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities

- Will be responsible for e-Freight Suite Product Strategy and Road-map

- Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers.

- Driving a solution set across development teams (primarily Development/Engineering, and Marketing Communications) through market requirements, product contract, and positioning.

- Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute.

- Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product.

- Assesses market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products.

- Provides source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives.

- Obtains product market share by working with sales director to develop product sales strategies.

- Provides information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses; answering questions and requests.

- Facilitates inventory turnover and product availability by reviewing and adjusting inventory levels and production schedules.

- Brings new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with engineering and manufacturing.

- Introduces and markets new products by developing time-integrated plans with sales, advertising, and production.

- Determines product pricing by utilizing market research data; reviewing production and sales costs; anticipating volume; costing special and customized orders.

Product Manager Skills :

- Product Management, People Management, Understanding the Customer, Product Development, Requirements Analysis, Pricing, Planning, Competitive Analysis, Sales Planning, Inventory Control, Financial Planning and Strategy

Basic Qualifications :

- 10+ years of product experience, preferably with web / service-based business experience

- 3+ years of product management experience