Manager, Product Management

• U.S. Citizen
• Ability to verify U.S. employment eligibility using Form I-9
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance and Common Access Card
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a technology related field. Equivalent work experience may be substituted for education. 
• Minimum 10+ years’ experience in a software organization, preferably in software development.
• Ability pass a drug test
• Six-month trial/probationary period may be required.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the levels of knowledge, skill, and/or ability necessary to perform the job at acceptable standards. 

• Prefer experience in working with tools and methodologies specific to the product line(s) assigned.
• Prefer experience in managing products involving large scale data-driven applications.
• Prefer experience in data analysis.
• Demonstrated leadership/supervisory experience.
• Extensive user interface design experience.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to assess product opportunities through market research and client feedback to develop market sizing, pricing, costing, and ROI analysis
• Experience with project development methodology (i.e.. Agile, Waterfall, Extreme) preferred
• Negotiation skills
• Data analysis skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Presentation skills to present to and persuade large and diverse audiences
• Ability to envision, document and clearly communicate end-to-end solutions.
• Skilled in creating process flows and swim lane diagrams in Visio.
• Ability to forge relationships with various business and technical team members and managers.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability to deliver planned results
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Aptitude to understand business impact and business value of technical solutions.
• Experience working with Department of Defense is a plus.
• Knowledge of Environmental and/or Logistics Processes is a plus.

Major Duties:

• Work with key project stakeholders and the customer to understand the overall business vision for a project and translate that into actionable objectives.
• Provide a communication conduit between the business and technical community by interpreting and translating business needs into technical requirements.
• Comprehend and document requirements from multiple stakeholders and conceptualize solutions.
• Develop deep understanding of current systems and processes and analyze impact of changes as new solutions are introduced to the environment.
• Collaborate directly with business owners, sales, QA, and development teams.
• Collaborate with other BSAs to manage inter-dependencies across the product suite.
• Assist in developing and validating test plans.
• Develop and provide product presentations and/or training to existing customer, and potential customers.

Specific Job Duties:

• Have a working knowledge of Sphera’s HMMS Suite application. 
• Be effective in problem solving.
• Coordinate work with software developers, QA and project teams in drafting User Stories and related documentation.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Travel may be required.

Client Services Capabilities:

• Strong customer service orientation
• Ability to learn client specific processes, terminology, systems, and unique requirements by various business groups.
• Sense of urgency due to cross functional and fast-moving nature of operations, Big picture thinking, prioritization (comfortable with multi-tasking)
• Ability to work independently as well as cross-functionally, with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Working Conditions:

Work is generally performed inside an office environment.

Training:

The individual may be required to complete training courses identified by Sphera and/or the government site as essential to job performance and may include (but not limited to) the following:

• HMMS Suite Training
• Sphera Corporation Training
• Government Required Training