Overview
Product Mgr Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at LexisNexis
Position: Â Product Mgr I
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About the Role
The Product Manager I will own a product feature and lead project execution. He/she will own the development plan and represent their feature within the PM team and will have an internal network across product domains. The individual will have a solid understanding of the customer and target market. He/she will represent the needs of the customer to the delivery team and will support and participate in the demo to key stakeholders at program milestones.
Responsibilities:
Customer Focus
Interacts frequently with customers, and generates customer requirements.
Anticipates customer needs and prioritizes those for the organization.
Analyzes and interprets what is happening in the market, driven by the latest news/incidents, particularly competitive announcements and events.
Predicts short term market changes and implications on the product.
Continuously aims to meet customer expectations without compromising the commercial viability of the product.
Data-Driven Decision-Making & Analysis
Actively gathers data from multiple sources (customer, market analysis, sales and revenue, etc.) to drive solutions to business problems and issues of consequence to the company.
Demonstrates the ability to make trade off decisions between potential product capabilities.
Evaluates product hypotheses in a quantitative manner, including AB testing for interactive products.
Generates new ideas by analyzing product data for insights.
Go to Market & Product Marketing Lifecycle
Supports the go to market strategy with goodcommunicationof customer requirements and timelines to stakeholders.
Assists on launch plans through coordinated development with external customer facing teams such as marketing and sales.
Answers sales and customer questions regarding feature function, pricing, packaging, value proposition and competition.
Offers Train-the-Trainer sessions in support of operations for market rollout.
Assists on collateral for sales demonstrations and customer events.
Outlines key milestones, outcomes and deliverables during go-to-market and product strategy planning.
Product Delivery & Development Lifecycle
Solves customer issues with product features that achieve business goals and metrics.
Has a deep understanding of his/her feature area and develops prototypes.
Participates in product discovery, according to defined process, for new product development.
Manages portions of the product lifecycle.
Is familiar with SDLCs as identified by management e.g. agile processes.
Strategy & Commercial Acumen
Determines strategic product vision and priorities for a feature area, and shapes/champions future product direction.
Independently uses information derived from competitive analysis to drive product direction and strategy.
Understands, formulates and budgets the operating costs required to deliver the revenues.
Creates product development plans including opportunity assessment and business case.
Technical Skills
Considers high-level technical approaches to use when prioritizing functionality.
Is proficient in various technologies to assist day-to-day ta…
Title: Product Mgr
Company: LexisNexis
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Category: IT/Tech, Business
