Associate Product Manager - Software Minnetonka 20335

Minnetonka, MN

The Associate Product Manager is responsible for managing Transportation & Logistics software and reporting products and services throughout the product life cycle. This is achieved by ensuring that new and existing products and services are updated / developed to meet market needs and maximize customer satisfaction while achieving the product line goals for growth, profitability, quality, and market share, consistent with our objectives and strategies.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Defines product requirements in the form of Market Requirements Documents, or user stories. Based on customer, prospect, evaluator, regulatory and other market inputs.
• Define user personas
• Create the go-to market product launch and rollout plans to be executed by product management, marketing communications, and sales teams.
• Develop both internal and external product training materials.
• Support marketing, sales, sales engineering, and operations with market and product expertise. Activities include: presentations, demos, strategic sales calls, events (conferences, trade shows, webinar) support.
• Work with other product managers, engineering, and operations to develop product line extensions and prioritize product improvements.
• Develop hands-on, in-depth knowledge of competitive products and maintain competitive strengths and weakness analysis.
• Lead and participate in cross-functional teams, make key strategic recommendations and product priority decisions on business cases, engineering and support costs, key customer and market analysis.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

 Required Skills:

• 1-3 yrs of experience in market analysis, product marketing, product management or experience in the transportation and/or technology industries
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills
• Internal and external Customer presentation and training skills
• Confident, solution-oriented, independent worker
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus among diverse stake holders
• Problem solving ability and analytical business skills
• Leadership and participation in cross-functional teams
• Bachelors Degree in business or equivalent experience 

 
Preferred Skills:

• Software product management experience
• Experience in developing market requirements for software and reporting products and services
• Experience working with business intelligence reporting solution
• Project management experience is a plus

Competencies:

• Timely Decision Making
• Informing Others
• Process Management
• Action Oriented
• Drive For Results
• Presentation Skills

Please apply today!


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