Sr. Technical Product Manager SP Services

Essential Responsibilities:

Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders including but not limited to: Customers Process Owners Application Managers Development teams and Technical Architects (as needed).

In this role you will:

• Work with cross-functional teams and different technical domains to deliver features and solutions
• Engage continuously with customers and stakeholders to understand their business goals and motivating factors
• Demonstrate ability to influence customers and product managers through credible knowledge and experience persuasion and influencing skills
• Own the product backlog; continuously groom and ensure that an agreed scope is always ready to move into development specially in S&OP Data & Analytics area.
• Lead the product development team; facilitate discussions provide clarification story acceptance and refinement testing and validation; owner of functional or technical product design in S&OP Data & Analytics area
• Understand and follow the proscribed governance process and development methodology
• Translate unstructured or ambiguous requests into actionable user stories and work units through problem decomposition and planning
• Demonstrate substantial experience with the technology stack and its impact on the final product
• Participate in different workouts or Kaizens to provide technology insights
  

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:

• Strong technical expertise in the underlying design and architecture of Data Lake Visualization like Fiori and other relevant technologies.
• Strong Business Analysis skills and ability to translate requirements to enterprise software features
• Experience leading teams in a formal software development lifecycle environment following a formal project management and governance process
• Familiarity with waterfall and iterative software implementation approaches (ex. Agile Lean)
• Expert proficiency in tools supporting SDLC such as Rally ADO MS Project Smart Sheet etc

Business Acumen:

• Understanding of GEPIL (Steam Power India) business portfolio and relevant processes
• Understanding of S&OP processes pertaining to Demand Supply Engineering Translations and Reconciliation
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technologies and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems and estimating efforts
• Has the ability to propose analyze impact and recommend appropriate technology choices
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the product development team
• Balances value propositions from competing stakeholders
• Demonstrates awareness of the competitive environment and its impact on the product
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to actively participate in buy vs build recommendations drive market timing decisions and scope of MVPs

Leadership:

• Ability to take ownership of medium sized or incompletely defined tasks
• Delivers while mentoring and helping junior team members
• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale
• Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions
• Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
• Identifies misalignments with goals objectives and work direction against the organizational strategy
• Makes suggestions to course correct or escalates appropriately
• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against commitments
• Effectively balances multiple different and/or competing objectives

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Effective team building and problem-solving abilities
• Persists to completion especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks
• Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit and exhibiting role model behavior