R&D, Product Lifecycle & Quality Product Manager

ABOUT THE TECH TEAM

Our global Tech team operates in an agile manner within a dynamic product organization. Immerse yourself in a collaborative environment where innovation thrives, and your contributions will play a direct role in shaping the path of our cutting-edge products. As a key player in our agile setup, you'll have the opportunity to enhance efficiency, foster creativity, and play a pivotal role in our product development process. Become part of a team that embraces adaptability and values continuous improvement, ensuring we stay at the forefront of global technology advancements.

THE PRODUCT(S) YOU WILL WORK ON / THE TEAM YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will be working as part of the Manufacturing & Production team who are responsible for all products covering Manufacturing & Production including Quality, Research & Development, Product Life Management, Operations, Optimization, Sustainability & Responsibility and Spirit Management.

This role will be responsible for our solutions under Research & Development, Quality & Product Management, covering areas such as Quality and Compliance (Laboratory Management, etc), Research & Development (Portfolio Management, Product Lifecycle, Packaging & Artwork, Workflows, etc) and Product Data Management (Product Data Repository, Data Exchange, etc).

WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOU

The responsibilities encompass steering the strategic vision and roadmap for mid and long term within the Product Family. This includes ensuring comprehensive coordination across multiple squads dedicated to the Product Family, and effective value realization to the business.

• Demand Management : Collect, qualify and assess demands coming from the Global Business Process Owners and the Tech Function itself. Ensure that local needs are effectively captured and arbitrated, in collaboration with proximity teams. Consolidate Business & Tech Product Demand backlogs, analyze and integrate them into the right Squad’s Backlog.
• Backlog Management : Contribute to EPIC demands Review and be appointed as EPIC Owner, perform EPIC Analysis and contribute to Portfolio backlog review, prioritization and arbitration, allocate Features to Product Owners and contribute to their prioritization and integration to Portfolio Synchronization Backlogs
• ITFM : Provide Product roadmap and backlog, squad’s resource needs forecast, Oversee overall funding of my scope, perform variance analysis and provide justification, Track Product’s ROI and costs
• Product Lifecycle Management : Drive Product Vision and roadmap through Product Framing Analysis and EPIC/Features definition and prioritization. Work with vendor engagement officers to define editors’ roadmap. Define and track value Product value generation and related investment. Oversee product squads’ activities throughout product lifecycle, providing expertise & securing arbitration. Ensure products demos and roll-out plans are effective and consistent, and defined in collaboration with the Business and the Proximity teams.
• Resource Management : Coordinate product teams work, animate PO community, secure engagement & collaboration, define squad’s resource needs for my scope, collaborate with tech leaders for resource mobilization and eventually adjust plans and roadmaps based on available resource capacity