Sr. Product Manager

Job Description Summary

Areas that support the identification and development of the product offerings for the business . Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Guided by commercial practices and policies that may be shaped by the role. Has significant control/influence over commercial priorities. There is moderate autonomy within the role to enter into/execute Commercial arrangements. High levels of Commercial judgement are required to achieve outcomes required.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Owns the product backlog and stories of our existing ADMS Solutions, and feeds into the overall GridOS ADMS product strategy and roadmap.
• Highly skilled on, capturing and developing Voice of the customer (VoC)
• Drives consistency and strategy for learning and development for our ADMS portfolio
• Prioritizes defects and supports customer escalations.
• Support pre-sales for specific actions (RFP answers, customer presentations, etc.). Helps services for specific actions if required beyond training.
• Accountability for functional, business, and broad company objectives. Integrate and develop processes that meet business needs across the organization, be involved in long term planning, manage complex issues within functional area of expertise, and contribute to the overall business strategy.
• Utilizes in-depth knowledge of own and other, product lines, markets, and customer groups and uses analytical thinking and commercial experience to execute policy/strategy.
• Has knowledge of best practices and how the Distribution Network Applications integrate with other parts of the portfolio.
• Is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.
• Uses judgment and can propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address more complicated, day-to-day problems with projects, product lines, markets, sales processes, or customers. Ability to prioritize information for decision making.
• Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems within projects, product lines, markets, sales processes, campaigns or customers. Takes new perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.
• Developing specialized knowledge of latest commercial developments in own area and communication skills to influence others. Contributes towards strategy and policy development and ensure delivery within area of responsibility.
• Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with moderate risks and resource requirements. Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.
• This Position will mainly be individual contributors.

• For roles outside of the USA- This role requires significant experience in the Product Management & Product Manager. Knowledge level is comparable to a Master's degree from an accredited university or college ( or a high school diploma with relevant experience).
• For roles in USA - Master's degree from an accredited university or college with at least 8 years of experience in Job Family Group (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 10 years of experience in Job Family Group(s)/Function(s)).

• Experience working in utility industry as an operator creating and executing Switching processes
• Real-world knowledge of Enterprise system integrations and/or experience at a utility
• Experience within the Power Grid Industry
• Domain expertise in both functional (power system engineering, control room software applications) and IT (industrial software architectures, new technologies such as containerization, cloud-based deployments, high-speed data buses, etc.
• Proven ability to plan, influence, organize, coordinate and write.
• Experience in at least one or two of the following areas: GE ADMS, AEMS, GIS, GridOS, DERMS
• Proficient in AHA or similar product management tools
• Familiar with agile methodologies Desired Characteristics
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs