Digital Product Manager (ecommerce)

Company: Exova
Location: Fairfield
Posted on: June 6, 2021

Job Description:

Overview

Element has an opportunity for a Digital Product Manager (Ecommerce). Reporting to the Commercial Excellence Director, Americas, the Commercial Product Manager is responsible and accountable for the end-to-end lifecycle of Element's commercial digital products, specifically ecommerce. This includes the development of the commercial digital product strategy through product design, development, implementation, and ongoing operations.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end ecommerce product vision and develop strategy from concept to production
• Develops and manages the product roadmap, demonstrating expertise at the product group level, building partnerships with relevant stakeholder teams, and making trade-off decisions for multiple products or product groups
• Leads the product planning process across one or more product groups by overseeing the development of requirements documents (user stories with acceptance criteria, use cases) for products or product releases
• Actively research the market, competitors to understand digital offerings that impact on customer and colleague experience
• Create detailed product requirements and backlog based on the product vision and product strategy
• Use agile methodology and work as the business lead for the scrum team (scrum master, architect, development teams) to maximize delivery of business value to internal and external customers and to ensure successful on-time delivery of the product
• Understands interrelationship of business and technical functionality and uses this knowledge to identify related and dependent items; prioritizes dependencies and groups related items into themes where practical
• Plan and Prioritize the product requirements based on the business / customer needs
• Create and manage the product backlog
• Create user stories and related acceptance criteria that are very clear, concise, and understandable to support the development and efficient implementation / deployment
• Gather the user feedback, evaluate the feedback and create / update requirements based on the feedback
• Approve each feature and continuously communicate with technical, business teams and customers as appropriate to ensure adherence to product vision and to proactively evaluate risks
• Work with the communications team to develop and execute internal and external communication strategies
• Work closely with fellow Product Owners with the goal of ongoing knowledge transfer and continuous improvement of product management processes and best practices; evaluates data collected through task analysis, business process observation, surveys and workshops to determine process improvement opportunities
• Identify, procure and manage external suppliers to design, develop and deploy the product

Skills / Qualifications

• There are no supervisory responsibilities for the role at this time
• The Product Manager will be responsible for influencing others without direct reporting line relationships
• Bachelors degree
• 3-5 years' experience, or equivalent, in digital product management, preferably ecommerce
• Experience in a startup-type environment before and comfortable in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and fluidity within technical needs
• Strong leadership & collaboration skills to get the best out of the most knowledgeable colleagues and external consultants
• Strong decision-making skills
• Strong problem solver, comfortable with both strategy development and diving into extreme detail
• Proven experience interacting with senior level / executive & operational customers, IT development, and consulting teams, vendor development teams, local and remote resources
• Can handle multiple top priorities at a time, and can work with very time-sensitive deadlines
• Proven ability to understand, represent and communicate customer pain points, needs and perspectives

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Company Overview

We are Element, one of the fastest growing testing, inspection, certification and calibration business in the world.

We deliver critical services in Materials Testing, Product Qualification Testing, Certification, Device Calibration and Advisory Services to the Aerospace, Oil and Gas, Transportation, Industrials, Fire and Building product, Infrastructure and other leading sectors, where failure in service is simply not an option.

Everything we do helps our customers to build better products; get their products to market on time; save them time and money; and minimize the risk associated with product development and production.

Our mission is simple: to be the best testing partner in the world and together we strive towards a common vision of becoming the world's most trusted testing partner.

We have four values that we strive to live by every single day.

• Safety - We keep our colleagues and visitors safe.
• Integrity - We act honestly and fairly to do the right thing.
• Excellence - We set new standards of excellence in everything we do.
• Partnership - We work together for the benefit of our customers.

When combined with our mission and vision, the ethos this creates, enables Element to deliver one thing. CERTAINTY. We exist to help make certain that the materials and products we test, inspect, certify and calibrate for our customers are safe, quality, compliant and fit for purpose.

Diversity Statement

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming "the world's most trusted testing partner".

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, and/or protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

TIC Council Statement

Element is proud to be a full member of the Testing, Inspection & Certification Council (the "TIC Council"), an international association representing independent testing, inspection and certification companies.

Members of the TIC Council must implement and abide by the TIC Council Compliance Code. Element has therefore issued an overarching Code of Conduct which is supported by our Compliance Programme. A copy of the Code of Conduct and more information about our Compliance Programme can be found in the Governance and Integrity section of www.element.com.

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