Product Manager @ Cognitus

Job Description - Duties and Responsibilities

Set both the immediate and long-term vision for your product portfolio

Communicate the vision to key stakeholders

Be transparent about the why and how for decision-making

Be able to say no or not now but explain why

Have a passion for objective prioritization and know how to balance competing factors

Support the delivery teams with continued prioritization, trade-off discussions, and roadblock removal

Provide clarification related to Epics and/or Features

Collaborate with the Program team to help set goals for each program increment

Collaborate with the business owners, users, SMEs, cutover team, training team, and the OCM team to deploy product features into the business

Support the team and business owners during the initial go-live events and provide leadership and focus on deployment issues or defects

Collaborate with the delivery teams and the IT support team to ensure the products have a working support model

Maintain close contact with the super-user network (SUN) to identify how the product is being used and where improvement to the product or process is necessary

Collaborate with the SAP Principal Enterprise Architect and the vendor s product team to monitor and plan for new capabilities, future enhancements, etc.

Manage the cost of the solution and relationship with the vendor s product team(s)

Monitor the return on investment for the products in your portfolio

Monitor the life of the product including vendor roadmaps and their end-of-life dates

Plan for the replacement of the product if the functionality is still needed by the business

Qualifications

8+ years related experience on Product Manager

Must be able to establish the trust of the business

Ability to influence and drive consensus with stakeholders

Must have excellent leadership and collaboration skills

Deep knowledge of the source-to-pay space

Deep knowledge of the systems that are in the source-to-pay portfolio

Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to present effectively to all levels of audiences from Executives to boots-on-the ground stakeholders

Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills

Ability to take a complex solution or concept and explain it in a simple, easy to understand way