Geospatial Product Manager

Job Reference 300408-CGPM

Location Herts/Cambridge border

Salary Up to £45,000 plus annual bonus

This fast-growing geospatial solutions vendor is recruiting a Product Manager to manage a suite of new generation products. The Product Manager will be responsible for the full product cycle including for determining the market opportunities and understanding customer needs in the market place.

The ideal candidate will be educated to degree standard and have previous experience as a Product Manager within a business to business environment as well as a strong understanding of GIS/Spatial technologies and products. You will have excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to get on with people at all levels.

Key responsibilities/duties:

• To develop a winning vision and business plan for the products. This business plan needs to be grounded in solid market research, competitive analysis, market planning, customer requirements, user scenarios, pricing, promotion and the end to end delivery of value to customers.
• The key challenge for this position is to determine the strategic path for the products, guiding the product vision, while delivering the daily product management to keep the client on track to deliver a high quality solution that meets customer requirements.
• To be the quality leader for products; improving product management processes and ensuring all products meet criteria before they are released.
• To create metrics to measure the success of the product strategy/product management, publish the results against quarterly targets and summarise the report for the Executive team.
• Manage the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities. 

Personal specification:

• You will ideally have knowledge of the GIS/Spatial technology market and be ready to provide vision for our products.
• Possess a blend of business and technical skills; a big-picture vision, and the ability to deliver on that vision.
• Experience of defining solution and product strategies.
• Experience bringing products to market. You should have experience bringing the whole product to market (product definition through launch through end of life) as well as experience managing multiple product lines.
• Experience in managing relationships with external customers and software development suppliers.
• Must be a credible team player who can work closely with the Management Team to move the business forward.
• Superior negotiating, market research, writing and organisational skills.

Interested, then please submit a copy of your CV in Word format to Alan Carnell.  His email address is [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] .  We guarantee that none of our clients will be made aware of your details without your prior agreement.

 

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