Job Description
As a Manager - Engineering you will oversee the entire lifecycle of a digital product, from inception to maturity. You will be responsible for the overall vision of the product in alignment with business objectives and managing the role out of this vision into a successful launch. You will act as a mediator between the consumers and the technical teams, communicating consumer needs and translating those needs into new product features for the team to design and build. You will understand product methodologies and can independently operate to execute on improvements and promote value. You will play a key role in recommending a digital roadmap to help execute strategic and customer experience goals.
Responsibilities
- Drives product strategies and vision to build best in class digital products.
- Accountable for the success of the product and ensures that the products deliver measurable value across the Product Management Lifecycle.
- Takes the lead of scrum teams, develops and communicates the product roadmap across the enterprise and with external partners/stakeholders in an agile environment.
- Develops a detailed understanding of user and business needs through persona identification, journey mapping, and a Design Thinking approach to product management.
- Plans and prioritizes the delivery of features based on business guidance, time, governance constraints, and value.
- Communicates with Portfolio, Digital, and Various leaders on business needs, progress to goals, KPIs, and outcome-based roadmaps.
- Leads the team by working collaboratively to clearly understand and communicate the vision, problem opportunities, and ensures the team always has the appropriate backlog of work.
- Oversees the acceptance of work generated by the team under the agreed Definition of Done and continues to drive the agile mindset and best practices.
- Partners with product, commercial, change, and marketing teams to ensure that customer needs for each targeted segment are incorporated into product design, branding, and marketing approaches.
- Keeps abreast of external digital landscape, including annual competitive studies, targeted competitive analysis, industry trends and digital developments in other market segments to proactively recommend capabilities that enable growth.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required
- Product management lifecycle management in a digital application – 5 years.
- Experience operating in digital channels, including web, mobile, apps and social; experience with scanning and mobility solutions – 5 years.
- Leading and growing a product and team with an outcome focused roadmap. – 3 years.
- Presenting recommendations to peers, management and leadership. – 2 years.
- Leading in depth research and anaylsis on markets, best practices, evolving customer and industry expectations – 1 year.
- Product Owner/Scaled Product Owner on a scrum team in an agile environment – 3 years.
- Product Management Life Cycle experience in the digital space.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong knowledge of cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device compatibility standards and behaviors.
- Knowledge of visual design principles and graphical user interface development.
- Ability to lead cross-functional groups (internal and external) in strategic and tactical discussions with clear goals, objectives and outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to filter through various requests and provide return-on-effort recommendations to management.
- Ability to multi-task and reprioritize in a dynamic environment.
- Curious mind that constantly looks to solve user/customer problems.
Wesco International, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Wesco”) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. US applicants only, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
Compensation Details: $104,267 - $177,254.
The compensation amount is not guaranteed. This amount is what we reasonably believe we will pay for the position, however, offer amounts may vary based on factors such as geographic location, experience and qualifications.
Wesco provides a variety of benefits to employees. More information about benefits is available here . For eligible positions, compensation may also include participation in an incentive plan.
About The Team
At Wesco, we build, connect, power and protect the world. As a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, we create a world that you can depend on.
Our company’s greatest asset is our people. Wesco is committed to fostering diversity and inclusion across our workforce by embracing the unique perspectives, authenticity and individuality of more than 20,000 Wesco employees around the globe. Through our Business Resource Groups , comprehensive benefits plan and our community outreach initiatives, you can be a part of a welcoming work community who provides platforms for your success.
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