Intermediate Product Manager - Ottawa, Ontario

Intermediate Product Manager - Ottawa, Ontario

Our Ottawa based client is currently seeking a junior to intermediate
product manager who is 4 years or so out of university and/or has just
a few years of product management experience. We're looking for
someone who's willing to do the dirty work in gathering product
requirements from the market and turning them into product
specifications for the Development team.
This is a permanent position with a salary range of 65-80K
Pharmaceutical industry experience would be considered an asset
Start date: Immediate

This position is responsible for managing the process and development
of product requirements and specifications for our products, and
communicating that vision to customers and to internal stakeholders.
You must have a passion for excellent software products and be a
champion for the success of the products.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Product Planning
- Creates solutions that solve market problems using innovation,
distinctive competence and creativity
- Looks at the products from the perspective of the market
- Understands what the product really does, how people use it, and
what criteria they use to engage it
- Use market knowledge to deliver product requirements
- Develops product specifications that deliver on market requirements
- Drives the specifications set across Product Development and Product
Marketing through market requirements definition, product release
requirements, product contract and product positioning
- Participates in creating the roadmap and managing the entire life
cycle from concept through strategic planning to tactical activities
- Identifies strategic cross-product line opportunities and initiates
planning with other product teams
- Enables cross-product coordination and buy-in with internal and
external stakeholders

Documentation:
- Is responsible for creating and maintaining product requirements for
the suite of products
- Is responsible for tracking the requirements through development and
quality assurance
- Delivers the product requirements to Development and creates the
product specifications which will also be used by Product - Marketing
as a guide in developing marketing collateral for the products
- Works closely with documentation to ensure that documentation
accurately reflects new features and functionality.

Requirements:
- BS/BA degree required; computer science/engineering degree or
equivalent experience a plus
- 3-5 years of increasing responsibility in software, product
management, product marketing or program management
- Must have a solid track record in design and delivery of successful
and innovative applications or services
- Experience in the Clinical Trials and/or Pharmaceutical industry an
asset
- Exposure to an electronic data capture system an asset
- Must be able to quickly assimilate technical options and tradeoffs
and guide the team to the optimal balance of meeting customer needs
and operating within resource constraints
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills with a
demonstrated ability to develop and present highly professional,
effective presentations for both business and technical audiences

Apply online at:
http://www.teksource.ca
Or submit your resume to:
resumes.RemoveThis@teksource.ca