Product Manager

SAE Industry Technologies Consortia (ITC), Performance Review Institute (PRI) and SAE International (SAE), deliver shared solutions to industry's common challenges.

Join us and create a higher standard for a better world.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Portfolio Management

• Responsible for strategy and implementation of current portfolio.
• Working with the product group Director, Editorial Director, Acquisitions Editor, Content Strategist and editors, define new features, media, content,enhancementsand product areas and implement those.
• Drives successful tradeoffs that affect cost, schedule, users, and how well the product works throughout the product life cycle.
• Provides product leadership from introduction through obsolescence, evaluates new technologies, articulates issues, and makes clear recommendations.
• Makes product positioning recommendations to management and counterparts.
• Develop business requirements for new product and enhancements/expansion to existing products; work with Marketing Research on functional specifications and feature/function prioritization
• Executes digital strategy across business segments to optimize digital experience, leveraging design thinking and other best practices.
• Monitors business results of recently introduced or existing digital experiences, coordinates reporting, and effectively recommends modifications to improve results.
• Monitors the marketplace to assess digital experience trends and results in order to recommend new digital experiences or enhancements to existing experiences. Prioritizes recommendations and enhancements.
• Develops and designs the features of new or existing digital experiences to take advantage of an identified market need or opportunity in conjunction with relevant business units. Manages the development, production, roll-out or promotion of digital experiences.
• Partners with key cross-functional BUs including Sales, Marketing, IT, Finance, Content Management and other internal and external stakeholders to ensure all digital experiences meet their strategic goals. Participates in product-specific marketing initiatives.
• Supports business, financial, and customer experience results of digital experiences and effectively recommends modifications in experiences and/or marketing to improve results.
• Identify and communicate potential risks of development updates and new and existing products.
• Analyzing competitive intelligence regarding product pricing and implementing pricing strategies across the product portfolio.
• Conducts market research and prepares competitive analyses. Aligns marketing and research to ensure products address market needs.

New Product Development

• Develops business cases for new product development, including SaaS products and services for consideration in the portfolio management process
• Utilizes Agile methodology in product development. Monitor development and communicate as needed in Jira.
• Monitors the marketplace to assess product, technology, and markets trends to identify a market need or opportunity.
• Recommends innovative new products, new experiences or enhancements to existing products and develops and designs the features of adesignated new or existing products.
• Manages the end-to-end development, production, roll-out, pricing or promotion of specific products, product groups or experiences and resolves complex operational and process problems that arise.
• Partners with third-party stakeholders to develop new product offerings.
• Continually reviews product usage data and maintain an ongoing dialog with customers and internal stakeholders, particularly sales, on trends, risks and opportunities
• Contributes to the achievement of SAEs organizational goals
• Leads additional projects as assigned.
• Individual product budget and revenue responsibility for $10+M plus year-over-year growth rate of 6% or greater.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's Degreein Business Administration or related field
• 5+ years of experience in managing products
• Agile software experience
• User experience-centered (UX) product development experience
• STEM industry experience
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Exceptional presentation skills
• Enthusiasm for developing global products for mobility industriesand adjacent markets
• Financial acumen: ability to consume, create and interpret P&Ls
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
• Superior budgeting, evaluative, and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in working within a multitude of back-end systems
• Requires strong diplomacy skills to drive alignment between competing business needs and objectives.
• MS Office proficient
• Competencies needed: Strategic Thinking, Teamwork, Responsible Risk Taking, Initiative, Adaptability, Critical Judgment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's Degree in Product Management or Business
• Travel to 30% to meet with customers, users, attend trade shows and conferences
• Certified Product Manager
• Publishing experience

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Position is primarily onsite with the option for a hybrid work schedule, as business needs allow.
• Standard office environment with frequent cross-functional collaboration.
• Travel up to 30% to meet with customers, attend trade shows, and participate in industry events.
• Requires extended periods of computer use and regular communication across internal and external stakeholders.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

SAE IndustryTechnologies Consortia (SAE ITC)enables organizations to define and pilot best practices. SAE ITC industry stakeholders are able to work together to effectively solve common problems, achieve mutual benefit for industry, and create business value.

The Performance Review Institute (PRI)is the world leader in facilitating collaborative supply chain oversight programs, quality management systems approvals, and professional development in industries where safety and quality are shared values.

SAE International (SAEI)is a global organization serving the mobility sector, predominantly in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries, fostering innovation, and enabling engineering professionals. Since 1905, SAE has harnessed the collective wisdom of engineers around the world to create industry-enabling standards. Likewise, SAE members have advanced their knowledge and understanding of mobility engineering through our information resources, professional development, and networking.

Fullsight is a shared services group working across three affiliate organizations, SAE ITC, SAE International, and Performance Review Institute (PRI), uniformly delivering HR, IT, Legal, Customer Success, Finance, and Procurement services, which enables us to distribute resources across all parts of our businesses.

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