Product Manager BOBI, Director

The Role: Product Manager BOBI, Director

The Team:

Business Operations and Strategy within the Market Intelligence Technical Operations with the goal of facilitating financial transparency for Market Intelligence Technology Executives to enable data driven business planning and tracking from execution to delivery.

The team delivers trusted strategic management metrics and reporting across Workforce, Vendor, Financials, and Strategic Projects, as well as KPI reporting using PowerBI. The team is expanding into Synergy Reporting, Cloud Spend, Cloud Migration, and Internal Cost Allocation Reporting.

The Impact:

You will be the Product Manager for the Business Intelligence platform (BOBI). BOBI is a cloud native platform, built on AWS. You will be empowered with a team of technical developers, front-end developers and a product owner.

You will be responsible in ensuring that product work is aligned with organizational priorities. You will be responsible to define product deliverables based on the strategic direction of the MI Technology and TBO organization. You will work closely with internal data providers to identify, consume and govern the datasets.

The userbase is expected to remain relatively stable at 500 users, and is indispensable to the core users/stakeholders, it is imperative that the platform is operationally stable but more importantly is seen as the single source of truth for the MI Tech management team.

In order to ensure that the BOBI platform is meeting the requirements of its stakeholders you will define a steering committee, chair meetings, and initiate demo sessions, user training and feedback calls.

Data management will be expected as part of the role, as we continue building and industrializing our Datawarehouse.

What’s in it for you:

1. Focus on data quality and accuracy of reporting
2. User / Stakeholder engagement
3. Project management acumen to work with various stakeholders and teams, and manage multiple internal conntributors
4. Effectively highlight and manage risks up and down the project chain
5. Facilitate large discussions and to lead stakeholders to consensus
6. Ability to analyze existing data sets and identify actionable data insights that can be easily understood by the user
7. Ability to analyze existing tools and databases and provide software solution recommendations for process improvements
8. High-level written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities:

1. Translating MI Technology strategies to tasks for development
2. Learning the executive leadership and other users’ needs
3. Serving as a liaison between the executive management and development
4. Oversee, measure, and improve project execution via the Agile Scrum methodology (day-to-day management is facilitated by Project Management)
5. Project manage the BOBI Reporting platform related projects and their enhancements. Bridging the gap between Business requirements and technical deliveries
6. Maintain the project pipeline and align resources for analysis and execution of task, this will involve tracking of team’s current and future pipeline along with delivery timeline.
7. Ensuring that process and documentations are followed using tools like JIRA, Confluence, ADO, AWS etc.
8. Participating in internal testing of the reporting platform to verify if the reports satisfy the Business requirements in terms of accuracy, efficiency, access restrictions etc.
9. Management status reporting of BOBI deliveries on a regular basis

What We’re Looking For:

1. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Business, Technology, Engineering, or related area
2. 6-8 years of relevant work experience in Technical Team Management
3. Extensive team leadership experience
4. Strong understanding of Data Management and Operations
5. Aptitude for Business Intelligence and visualization
6. Able to define and communicate a clear vision
7. Excellent presentation skills and stakeholder management
8. Committed to employee career growth
9. Highly organized, independent and multitasker
10. Proven willingness to learn, a positive attitude, and an ability to work in a fast-paced, high demand work environment.
11. Open to working flexible hours as per business needs