Vice President - Product Management - Corporate

Company: Corus Entertainment
Location: Fort Worth
Posted on: February 23, 2021

Job Description:

Vice President - Product Management - Corporate Fort Worth, TX, USA Req #388 Monday, February 1, 2021 For more than 30 years, ECI Software Solutions has been providing industry-specific, cloud-based business management software and services to small and medium-sized businesses. With divisions focused on manufacturing, wholesale/retail distribution, building and construction, and field service, ECI's solutions integrate into every aspect of a customers' business to help them level the playing field, run day-to-day operations more efficiently, and free them up to focus on what matters most. It's how business gets done.
ECI Software Solutions is looking for a Vice President of Product Management to join our Corporate team.

As product portfolio champion , run the portfolio a business to ensure profitability, utilization of resources and full ROI via execution of cross-functional Go-To-Market delivery of "Whole Products". Work in close collaboration with software development and business leadership teams to establish and execute new and incremental product portfolio strategies as well as individual product road maps and release plans. Maintain a high degree of communication across technology, development, support, implementations, sales and marketing departments. Develop and present product business plans, go-to-market plans, partnering strategies, product positioning, white papers, product briefs, sales training, partner training and competitive analysis. Establish, implement and maintain product packaging, licensing and pricing programs. Define and drive product management processes as a discipline across the organization.
This position reports to ECi's CTO. Based in Fort Worth, TX this position requires up to 25% travel.


Responsibilities:

• Recruits, Mentors and Trains Product Managers and Product Marketers in all aspects of the product management discipline.
• Educate all aspects of the business (Senior Leaders, Sales, Marketing, Development, Support, etc) on the role of Product Management.
• Analyzes industry trends in each target market segment.
• Responsible for developing a short and long-term portfolio strategy and portfolio roadmap.
• Performs ongoing competitive assessments by operational business function to ensure viability of products and services.
• Defines high-level business solutions with supporting business requirements.
• Identifies 3 rd party strategic partnerships to support portfolio strategy.
• Considers international markets in all responsibilities where applicable.
• Supports sales efforts in strategic accounts.
• Documents and socializes business value of solutions to assist other areas of the organization in selling, marketing and supporting customers.
• Develops and distributes thought leadership content and works with corporate marketing to enhance the organization's image.
• Participates in product level due diligence for acquisitions Knowledge, Skills, Ability, Education & Experience:
  • Minimum 10 years' experience in software product management, with at least 2 years at the Director level.
  • Experience leading a team of over 10+ product managers in a matrixed and geographically distributed environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple mature product lines in a competitive market.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify, plan and execute on new product opportunities in existing verticals and new verticals.
  • Demonstrated success in defining, implementing and advocating effective product management processes, methods and tools.
  • Experience leading customer advisory councils.
  • Ownership and hands-on development of product strategies, road maps, release plans, requirements documents and go-to-market plans.
  • Demonstrated leadership and management of multiple product managers serving a software product portfolio of 3 products or more.
  • Very strong combination of technical, and business acumen.
  • Self-motivated, self-managing and conscientious.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with internal and external customers.
  • Strong teamwork and leadership skills with demonstrated ability to influence and prioritize needs across all product stakeholders in the business.
  • Plans and prioritizes job assignments for into work priorities and assignments for the Product Management and associate scrum team and team members.
  • Provides team and team member performance feedback
  • Ability and desire to thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
  • Demonstrated experience in integrating acquired products into a product portfolio.
  • Chairs the Center of Excellence for Product Management across the company. Desired Experience
    • Product development or product management experience with ERP, supply chain, eCommerce and/or point-of-sale solutions.
    • Experience managing software products delivered on-premise as well as SaaS and hosted offerings.
    • Experience managing software products built on Microsoft and/or Java technology stacks.
    • Understand common industry business practices in manufacturing, operations, distribution, and finance
    • 2+ years of ERP or SCM hands-on, full-life cycle project implementation experience with comparable ERP / SCM Software as consultant or end user
    • Understand ERP or SCM application concepts, software design/programming, and database structure Education
      • Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering or Computer Science.
      • Master's in Business Administration (MBA) or Technology Management is a plus.
      • Certification and/or training through Proficientz, Pragmatic Marketing or similar Product Management focused organization. In addition to our competitive salary and award winning culture, we offer an excellent benefit package. We even offer our employees a day off to serve their community! Our company core values are our "CODE": Crave Greatness, Own the Outcome, Deliver Awesome and Embrace Community.

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