Director of Product Management

ZS Associates

(Evanston, Illinois)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About ZS Associates
ZS Associates is the world’s largest consulting firm focused exclusively on improving business performance through sales and marketing consulting solutions, from customer insights and strategy to analytics, operations and technology. Together, we design and implement strategies that lead to greater market share, more competitive operations and increased use of today’s latest technologies.
Summary
We are looking for a Director of Software Product Management. This person will be the leader of the Sales Planning & Execution Product Management team and will be responsible for strategy and implementation of this product suite (JTD, JAMS, JCPM, CCM/OR & JAC). This person will work closely with the corresponding business and practice area leads, leaders in the Software Development group and with our clients. This person will develop and grow their product managers and business analysts. The leader must be a strategic thinker as well as able to ensure tactical execution is both timely and of consistent high quality.
Responsibilities
- Manage the Sales Planning and Execution suite of products (JTD, JAMS, JCPM,CCM/OR & JAC) - Analyze the marketplace, gather inputs from clients and assess competitors to determine the right new products or future direction ofexisting products - Be an enabler to envision and conceptualize new products and clearly discuss and communicate product vision, value and benefits of each product line - Partner with Software Engineering to identify product scope and evaluate build/buy/partner development alternatives leveraging software platforms optimized for Cloud deployments and assess ROI economics - Develop a strong product management team by hiring people with the right skills and developing them within a well-defined career progression model - Develop and implement roadmap priorities, balancing between the needs of overall product and specific demands from key customers - Support product sales by meeting with both prospective and existing clients, as well as via internal and external marketing campaigns
Ideal Candidate
**Qualifications:** - Bachelor's degree in business or a technology discipline - 7+ years of Software Product Management experience, 3+ years of successfully leading product management teams - Experience with development of Enterprise B2B SaaS solutions is required; experience in launching new web-based solutions is highly desired - Strong leadership: excellent team management, coaching and mentoring skills; superior planning, process and influencing skills. - Good presentation and communication skills (both verbal and written) including experience and level of comfort presenting concepts to senior executives - Demonstrated ability to be an effective change management leader for their direct reports - Demonstrated success in product definition, including target customer, core value proposition, core features and business model **Preferred Skills:** - MBA degree - A diversity of experience having worked at companies of different sizes and different industries - Experience with solutions targeted for sales and/or marketing organizations as well as an understanding of sales and marketing business processes and analytics is preferred
Compensation and Working Conditions
Benefits Benefits included

Additional Notes on Compensation

ZS offers a competitive compensation package with salary and bonus incentives, complete medical/dental/life insurance programs and 401k.

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