Product Manager - Alberta, Canada - Collabera

Description

This is with one of our Banking client.

**Deep understanding of Private Investment Management, Dealer, Asset Management, Order Management is highly sought after**

Role, Responsibilities & Expectations:

• Lead product discovery, design and delivery tied to client's strategic priorities while delivering value to end users
• Translate and communicate the business vision into outcomes and objectives to support product work
• Align product work to best practices ensuring we make the right choices to deliver against client's goals and objectives while limiting barriers, roadblocks or re-work
• Define and manage product roadmaps (concept, requirements, development, delivery and refinement)
• Aligning business and operational needs with intent to solve important customer problems while achieving business goals
• Lead the creation of Business Cases in order to define business problems, value propositions and outcomes
• Ability to gain a deep understanding of business needs, features/functionality and translate those into the user stories or requirements
• Facilitating workshops with different levels and skill sets to elicit business need and requirements tied to application functionality and overall user experience
• Navigate through Request for Proposals (RFPs) to ensure the right solutions are selected to align to business needs, outcomes and strategy (incl. requirements, vendor demos and assessments, scorecarding etc)
• Map out and communicate end to end business and technical processes
• Build value-driven relationships with stakeholders, cross-functional teams, senior leadership and our partners
• Define success metrics for your product and drive all product efforts to those measures.
• Maintain a backlog of future enhancements or operational improvements and work directly with the business to prioritize based on business/user need
• Define risks, assumptions, dependencies and constraints and impact to the product delivery
• Build a deep understanding of the voice of the user and identify the requirements and impacts to the product
• Collaborate with external (Vendors) and internal (Engineering, Design, Marketing, Communication, Adoption) cross functional team members to enable the product vision
• Build a solid knowledge base across client-specific business domains and their series of products and services
• Consistently identify areas to improve the product practice at client through approach, practice, templates etc.
• Ask the right questions, craft solutions and deliver user validated digital products to meet business needs

Knowledge, Skills & What Will You Bring?

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Commerce, Information Technology (i.e. MIS) or equivalent experience
• 5-7 years of related project or product delivery experience
• 5+ years co-leading or leading initiatives across digital products as a Product Manager/ Business Analyst
• Deep understanding and application of product delivery practices are required - Agile/XP/SCRUM, work processes and business analysis methodologies
• Commitment to empathy for the end user; user centric focus and approach
• Comfort and confidence in decision making with executive leadership, areas of expertise and strategic support units
• Collaborate with partners and internal cross functional team members to enable end user value (Engineering, Design, Marketing, Communication, Adoption)
• Break down complex problems into actionable steps (and opportunities)
• Define and drive out options for a problem or find a way of looking at things differently
• Define and drive out task management actions and activities
• Knowledge and application of business analysis concepts, tools and processes
• Knowledge of IT resources and enabling technologies; software, architecture and databases
• Excellent communication skills across oral and written
• Technical fluency; types and application of technologies to deliver a business need - applications, integrations and data sources
• Understanding and application on agile and user-centered design values, principles and practices
• Create an environment that supports inclusion, recognizes bias and promotes psychological safety

Additional Skills "Nice to Have":

• Product Management / Business Analysis certification is an advantage
• Software development experience is an asset
• Conducting RFP's for Consultancy / Implementation is an asset
• Banking, Wealth Management, Investment Management, Financial Industry experience is a differentiator

About Us:

Collabera is a leading Digital Solutions company providing software engineering solutions to the world's most tech-forward organizations. With more than 25 years of experience, we have hired over 17000 employees across 60+ offices globally and currently place professionals annually to support critical IT engagements at more than 500 client sites, 80% being the Fortune 500. {and 59% of the Fortune 50 (could use either stat)}

With Collabera, you

• Will get to work on numerous challenging and exciting projects, including UI/UX transformation, Blockchain, AI/Data Science, Cloud migrations, Cyber-Security and Engineering.

• At Collabera you have 80% chances of project extension or redeployment to other clients

• Will have endless opportunities to learn new technologies through our inhouse Training arm – Cognixia.