Product Manager

Summary of Duties & Responsibilities :

The BST Project Pursuit and Delivery product team manages software that facilitates the following business processes in consulting firms : project pursuit and estimating, project initiation and planning, project execution and control, demand and capacity management, and project closure.

Spanning software capabilities in BST8, BST10 and BST11, the PPD product portfolio is targeted for business developers, project managers, operations manager and staff end users in consulting firms.

The PPD Product Manager is a key member of the Project Pursuit and Delivery product team, focused on end user understanding and advocacy, and ensuring ongoing product usefulness and relevance in the context of changing market conditions.

Our ideal candidate is a self-motivated, organized, charismatic leader who works well with a team, has a passion for business systems, and can participate as a key contributor in sales, consulting, and support to provide subject matter expertise, evangelize product features, and drive adoption.

Essential Functions :

• Maintain awareness of PPD market landscape, from a functional and end user perspective
• Maintain subject matter expertise on functionality of PPD product portfolio
• Evangelize PPD product portfolio to PPD end users and stakeholders, and track adoption
• Contribute to ongoing evolution and maintenance of overall PPD product roadmap
• Performs other related duties as directed

Skills & Competencies :

• Well-versed in market landscape of leading PPD product offerings
• Deep understanding of core PPD processes, and able to contextualize less common and / or specialized PPD processes
• Proficient in functionality and business application of entire PPD product portfolio, with ability to offer best practices on configuration and usage
• Analyze and document requirements for major new areas of PPD product functionality
• Deliver presentations and facilitate discussions on leveraging and evolving PPD product portfolio to address business requirements and / or issues
• Provide guidance and direction to product team and other product stakeholders regarding positioning, design and usage of PPD product portfolio
• Correlate end user product issues and modifications to general component of underlying product architecture
• Well-versed in end user feedback on current PPD product portfolio, and actively engaged with end user community
• Advocate of PPD end user needs and objectives

Team Support / Leadership :

Deep commitment to working in and fostering a highly collaborative, innovative, and high performing team

• Evangelize, support, and embody BST’s Company Mission, Strategy and Values
• Foster a culture of ownership and pride for delivering the highest levels of quality and excellence
• Performs other related duties as directed

Education or Prior Work Experience :

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years supporting, facilitating and leading software delivery lifecycle of business applications

Reports to :

Director, Project Pursuit and Delivery

Number Supervised : Travel :

Travel : Up to 15%

Up to 15%

Classification : Exempt

Exempt

Work Environment :

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands :

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand;

walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.