Senior Product Manager
Duration: 6 Month, Contract
Location: Cincinnati, OH 45202 (or in Chicago, IL)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our large retail client is looking for a Senior Product Manager. The Senior Product Manager will combine technology and design to solve real customer problems in a way that meets the needs of the business. You will work with the key stakeholders and partners to build the right things for their customers that deliver value to their business. Using a sophisticated, proprietary suite of tools and technology, our client turns customer data into actionable knowledge. With unparalleled customer data and predictive analytics capabilities, they deliver personalized marketing strategies and ensure the best experience for their customers and more than 300 consumer-packaged-goods companies. They put the customer at the center of everything they do, resulting in a more dynamic, informed, and personal approach to driving customer loyalty.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Value – ensuring solutions are distinctly valuable to our customers
• Viability – ensuring solutions are viable for various aspects of our business
• Stakeholder management – effective in building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change
• Intermediate level knowledge in the development and use of product data to inform product decisions – both quantitative and qualitative
• Deep understanding of customers/user problems, how they think and operate and the platforms/technology they use
• Deep understanding of the business domain, stakeholders, business processes and constraints in which your product(s) play
• Effective in making priority decisions based on measurable value, given the usability, feasibility, and viability
• Understand organization objectives, strategies, and solution needs and how you and the team can contribute to those results (where collaborative/as colleague)
• Effective in leading Discovery Process sessions with key stakeholders
• Clearly communicate the value of the of work being delivered
• Manage work with a product mindset – focus on outcomes (over outputs), problems to solve, the goals of your product and key metrics of success; give teams the freedom and responsibility to think of a strategy they believe will result in the best product for our clients; facilitate teams in setting up a process that supports them in building these products
  • Lead the development, championing, and prioritizing of a team backlog, based on value, viability and the needs of the business

REQUIREMENTS

• 2-4 years relevant experience
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Technical acumen – grasps the technical details to lead a team and/or product
• Effective managing cross-functional software development teams in an agile environment
• Effective managing business priorities against design/user needs while delivering against product roadmaps
• Effective managing end-to-end software product development and releases
• Stakeholder management skills – effective in building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change
• Problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
• Planning, organizational and time management skills
• Comfort with ambiguity – remains confident, positive, and resourceful in the face of ambiguity and unexpected results; recovers quickly from setbacks
• Exhibits qualities of and have proven to be a great teammate
• Verbal and written communication skills, ability to translate between business and technical

Benefits of working as an employee of CRG!

All W2 Employees at CRG are offered the following benefits options!

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Life Insurance, and Long- & Short-Term Disability insurance is offered after 90 days of employment with CRG!
• We also offer a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) along with a Health Savings Account (HSA) with our medical plan. CRG matches the first $500 of the HSA contributions.
• Our 30K Life Insurance policy is FREE (no cost to the employee), as long as you sign up for it!
• We also have a 401K plan, with open enrollment quarterly (January, April, July, and October) after working at CRG for 90 days.
• CRG matches 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions to the 401K plan!

Category Code: JN008