You will own, from a product management perspective, the successful definition and delivery of our new API services.
You will work closely with our Ramp;D department and ensure project execution, profitability and customer satisfaction. You will join a team of very skilled, talented and passionate people, always bringing the software industry best practices to our workflow.
The ideal candidate has a good business acumen and has previously been exposed to data analytics, data science, has evolved into a product management role and is at ease in speaking both technical and business languages.
Your Impact
- Gather business requirements and use cases from customers, sales and customer service. Use this data in the roadmap strategy.
- Prioritize the roadmap deliverables and secure required development resources to ensure timely delivery of those roadmap items.
- Track roadmap execution plan accordingly and teams’ alignment around implementation trade-offs that might be required.
- Translate the data gathered to build a case for decisions presented in the roadmap.
- Champion the product vision and strategy, exhibiting good product judgement, continuously setting clear and measurable objectives and monitoring the product's progression to achieve these.
- Communicate this strategy to all the relevant participants and stakeholders.
- Support PM leadership for pricing
- Work with the Ramp;D teams to define functional architecture, processes, and development efforts required for the delivery of API services.
Here’s what your day-to-day will look like in this role :
- Maintain an understanding and knowledge of the competition including competition analysis.
- Research and analyse market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
- Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities
- Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Provide commercial input into pricing and marketing strategies
- Attend conferences and exhibitions, meeting with customers and agents.
- Work closely with the sales team on RFIs, RFPs, ITTs and provide technical input in relation to bids, proposals etc.
- Accompany area sales managers on prospective customer visits amp; assist in identifying and qualifying opportunities.
- Regular interactions with existing customers with pro-active visits, educational sessions, seminars, webinars and workshops to promote the full and effective use of the software and data
- To assist with implementation of API services on customer vessels both remotely and hands-on and the management of customer sea-trials
- Work with the marketing department to produce and maintain technical manuals, user guides, marketing material and computer-based training.
Requirements
- Technical expertise regarding data models, database design development, data mining and segmentation techniques
- Knowledge of and experience with reporting packages (Business Objects etc), databases (SQL etc), programming (XML, Javascript, or ETL frameworks)
- Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS etc)
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings
- BS in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management or Statistics or an equivalent experience.
- A strong technical background in product management, operations or sales and the ability to progress deals or other relevant experience.
- Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
- Great problem solver - who can think through problems and develop solutions quickly.
- Training will be provided but the ability to quickly absorb information and understand and communicate USPs and product differentiation is essential.
- Must be willing and able to travel on a global basis
- Fluent spoken and written English
- This role can be based out of our head office in Enfield, UK or from our Montreal office in Canada.
What about us?We have successfully completed a large merger and have become the leader in a tight maritime market. Now we want to act accordingly by reworking our product line, investing in long-term technology to provide our customers the best solutions. We want to transform our field into a smarter, leaner maritime industry.
We are designing our new products generation using the latest innovative technologies with web applications and APIs depl