Product Manager at Descasio - Nigeria

Key Responsibilities

• Define, prioritize, plan and drive the execution of the vision for our product lines
• Create a product roadmap and articulate the business value to the product team in order to achieve the strategic goals and initiatives behind the product.
• Engage with customers to evolve product requirements and be the voice of the customer in the product planning process
• Manage products through various launch phases and follow-on releases
• Determine customers' needs and desires by specifying the research needed to obtain market information.
• Recommend the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements; appraising new product ideas and/or product or packaging changes.
• Assess market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products.
• Provide source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives.
• Obtain product market share by working with sales director to develop product sales strategies.
• Represent the Company at various industry events, conferences and internal forums
• Provide information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses; answering questions and requests.
• Facilitate inventory turnover and product availability by reviewing and adjusting inventory levels and production schedules.
• Bring new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with engineering and manufacturing.
• Introduce and markets new products by developing time-integrated plans with sales, advertising, and production.
• Determine product pricing by utilizing market research data; reviewing production and sales costs; anticipating volume; costing special and customized orders.
• Completes operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

Skills & Requirements

• Experience in software product management or technology lead in an enterprise software or SaaS company
• People management and customer research
• Prior experience in enterprise and cloud management (IaaS, Automation, DevOps), platform, and/or SaaS a big plus
• Extensive client facing skills and the ability to work independently
• Strong analytical and organizational skills 
• Superb verbal, written and presentation skills
• Decisive, visionary and able to support decisions with research
• Ability to team with and influence people at all levels across functions is required
• Organised and able to work to deadlines and roadmaps
• Good at persuasion and negotiation
• Ability to analyse complex data and look for trends in the market and users' opinions and behaviour