Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join Centric Software's rapidly growing team as a Senior Product Manager! This hands-on role involves product development, management, technology partnerships, client services, and marketing within the exciting Cosmetics & Personal Care (CPC) market. You will define the product vision for CPC features in our enterprise PLM solution, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and prioritize development activities. Success requires proven expertise in CPC industries, strong product management skills, and excellent communication abilities. The ideal candidate will be passionate about pioneering new solutions and working in a fast-paced environment. This position reports to the Principal Product Manager – Formulated Products and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Proven expertise and demonstrated capabilities in CPC and CPC-related industries relative to specific and general PLM processes, scenarios, domain models, and solution patterns as well as adoption and change management considerations
• Deep understanding of CPC-specific needs especially in the areas of product development, regulatory compliance and formulation
• Proven experience and skills in domain modeling and analysis and a good understanding of CPC industry pain points, best practices, system integration requirements, and adoption/ change management enablers to accelerate PLM adoption in this field
• Pragmatic Agile product management best practices and the ability to creatively model requirements, and map solution designs with consideration for pragmatic refactoring and incremental enhancements
• Ability to abstract with meta modeling/problem-solving experience relative to the design of configuration points based on common implementation patterns in support of common CPC process and information management practices
• 10+ years of overall experience (at least 5+ as a product manager) in a fast-paced environment, preferably in SaaS or Enterprise software
• The ability to understand the breadth of our offering and product line as well as the technical ability to drill into details on owned areas
• Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to quickly understand, simplify, internalize, and communicate complex business or technical requirements
• Emphasis on user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement
• You must be prepared to present a portfolio highlighting your recent work

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the product vision and direction for CPC features in our enterprise PLM Solution
• Work in a cross-functional and collaborative role spanning several teams such as product, design, engineering, and marketing
• Collaborate with UX designers and engineers to reach the best possible version of a feature or product to bring to market
• Prioritize development activities with engineering teams, work closely with QA on acceptance testing, and lead product launches
• Manage customer preview programs and engage in frequent conversations with customers both onsite and in the customer's office to understand their needs, gather feedback, and overall ensure that product direction is in tune with customer needs
• Partner with Client Services to create new service offerings, lead training and build marketing collateral
• Work with and collaborate with a growing number of technology and business partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to quickly understand, simplify, internalize and communicate complex business or technical requirements
• Emphasis on user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally across the company
• Demonstrated ability to deliver solutions to existing customer segments and rapidly expand to new customer segments
• Ability to develop multi-level relationships of confidence and trust with customers and cross-functional colleagues
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly evolving technology and commercial environment
• Ability to resolve problems in order to clarify situations and create a way forward
• Results-oriented and motivated to deliver value
• Ability to go deep in problem-solving and analytical solution mapping
• Proven ability to work with geographically distributed teams
• Team player, ready to contribute to the A team!

Benefits

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $150,000 - $190,000+ benefits