Senior product Analyst
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Become an expert on one of Aptean’s supply chain technologies and services solutions, including the product’s unique value proposition in the market, based on a thorough understanding of the market problems and competition.
- Deliver product-led growth by prioritizing and delivering high value features and enhancements.
- Provides product expertise to both internal and external functional groups.
- Provides key content for the development of sales tools and marketing collateral to be distributed to the channels.
- Provides thought leadership in the form or white papers, blogs, webinars
- Gathers, analyzes, and validates product requirements with existing and potential customers, internal key stakeholders, and the market
- Develop, maintain and communicate the internal roadmap and external roadmaps
- Writes product requirements and use cases to develop a prioritized rich backlog of features, partnering closely with product development and key customers to ensure we are delivering against the highest business need.
- Prioritize the features for development, along with ongoing change requests and reported issues.
- Define personas for individual users, products, and markets.
- Oversee planning, prioritization and management of the product features and requirements from conceptual stages through product life cycles to optimize revenue and meet operational, financial and corporate objectives
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to prepare release objectives, messaging and internal and external launch
- Track the performance of your products, adoption rates, retention, quality, and other key metrics.
- Understanding of customer needs in the product specific related industry.
- Comprehensive knowledge and ability to analyze the related market, competitors, customers, prospects and other stakeholders.
- Must be able to translate business problems into technical requirements.
- Full understanding the stage-gate process and software development lifecycle.
- Must have working knowledge of the product life cycle phases, including engineering specifications, customer requirements gathering, software design and development, implementation/delivery and maintenance.
- Must possess solid leadership qualities with cross-functional teams including development, UI/UX, quality assurance, sales, global services, and marketing.
- Ability to work with limited supervision and be accountable for deliverables.
- Must be able to make sound and timely decisions.
- Must be able to interface appropriately and present recommendations at all levels (i.e. engineers, management, executives, and customers) and functions.
- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to credibly present recommendations at senior levels in the organization.
- Must be able to summarize and synthesize product and industry trending data, along with competitive information, to inform our strategy and show our current progress.
- Must be able to track cross-functional team progress to ensure timeline delivery and execution of our roadmap and releases.
- Must be able to anticipate and resolve challenges, including knowing when to ask for help.
- 8+ years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree is required
- Experience in an Agile development environment
- Excellent written, presentation and communication skills
- Analytical thinking & problem solving mindset
- Ability to travel as needed (approximately 10% of the time)
- Experience with supply chain planning, either as a software provider or a supply chain practitioner.