Product Manager

Job Description

CountryPakistanJob FamilyCommercialFor over 80 years, GfK has been a reliable and trusted insight partner for the world?s biggest companies and leading brands who make a difference in every consumer?s life - and we will continue to build on this. We connect data, science and innovative digital research solutions to provide answers for key business questions around consumers, markets, brands and media. With our headquarters in Germany and a presence in around 60 countries worldwide, you benefit from our global company with a diverse community of ~9,000 employees.Harnessing the power of our workforce, the greatest asset we have is our people. As part of GfK, you can take your future into your own hands. We value talent, skills and responsibility and support your development within our international teams. We are proud of our heritage and our future: Currently we are in the latter stages of a transformational journey from a traditional market research company to a trusted provider of prescriptive data analytics powered by innovative technology. This is only possible with extraordinary people and this is why we are looking for YOU to help create our future. For our employees as well as for our clients we pursue one goal: Growth from Knowledge!GfK Etilize has been providing clients from around the world with mission critical product data and solutions for retailers, distributors and manufacturers to power their eCommerce efforts. With over 20 million SKUs in many languages, Etilize is the worlds largest product data provider of high quality and structured product data. Our team brings decades of eCommerce experience and is truly passionate about optimizing product content for our clients. Making product content simple, accessible and more profitable for our clients.You would be joining our Product Management Group (PMG) whose goal is to transform the way we gather, transform, and deliver our data and solutions with a real chance to grow our business and enable new products and solutions.Your main tasks will include:

• Spend time with customers to better understand their needs and pain points? Gain a deep understanding of customer experience,identify,and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
• Tight interaction/ steering of stakeholders across different disciplines like T&D, sales/commercial, marketing, operations, and any external vendors
• Formulate & present vision, strategy and roadmap for your product area, able to prioritize and capable to say no
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Convert different stakeholder requirements into tangible product improvements
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Apply OKR framework, track results, suggest and mange counter measures if key results are on risk to be failed
• Lead and setup calls with customers to validate requirements and making sure customers? input is always taken into any product requirements and design decisions.
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources
• Drive product launches including working with sales and marketing team, customer success and integration team, and other product management team members
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Understands and monitors KPIs and OKRs to support data-driven decisions influencing product and feature development
• Work with leadership and stakeholders on roadmap planning and prioritization of backlog
• Build roadmaps for internal and external customers
• Test and monitor new product improvements and features to ensure they meet requirements and improve products
• Quantitatively and qualitatively research to gather data to support and prioritize effective and innovative product enhancements and/or new products
• Track, maintain, and continually groom product backlogs
• Write requirements/epics
• Lead recurring product review calls as well as product planning sessions
• Develop product pricing and positioning strategies with sales and marketing teams
• Able to communicate business value of product capabilities to sales and external customers
• Demo and provide walkthrough of your product to prospecting customers along with sales and customer success team
• Help sales and customer success team with pre-sales, making sure client understand our products better and how they solve their problems or help increase their business.
• Increasing the adoption and full leverage of your product(s) with current customers

Requirements

• 5 years of experience in Product Management or related business analyst/product ownerexperiencein a software development/product-based company working with enterprise clients
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Deep understanding of product management best practices in agile environments
• Experience building roadmaps and guiding teams, product owners, business analysts and internal stakeholders
• Experience leading product review calls, planning sessions and ideation of new products and opportunities
• Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation
• High proficiency in Business English
• Excellent presentation and influencing skills, feeling comfortable in front of a top management audience

We are an ethical and honest company that is wholly committed to its clients and employees. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace for all and are committed to equal opportunity in employment which focuses on all of our employees reaching their full potential.At GfK we work collaboratively with our colleagues but offer a flexible working approach, including dividing our time between office & remote working as well as the opportunity to flex our working hours around team core hours.We offer an exciting work environment that brings people together. We encourage an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit. We make use of the latest digital technologies. We are looking for self-starters, who accept challenges and create solutions.Can there be a better place to take center stage in the digital revolution? We are excited to get to know you!

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