Product Manager
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Wyoming
Posted on: May 3, 2024
Job Description:
Welcome to Gordon Food Service! We are excited that you are
thinking about opportunities with us, and we have an amazing story
to share. See below for a quick glance of who we are and the impact
you could have on the food service industry. There's a seat at our
table for you...Position Summary:The Product Manager provides
business vision and features for an "agile release train" (50 - 125
people in a team of teams) to regularly deliver value to customers
and help grow the business. Uses market research, user research,
business strategy, and related skills to collaborate with others to
define and prioritize roadmaps, features, and releases. Aligning
the train vision and priorities in order to achieve the desired ROI
through collaboration with customers, business leaders, technical
leaders, and any others who are critical to the process.Essential
Functions:
- Develops and refines the vision, roadmap, and features for the
solutions provided by their agile release train by understanding
customers, competitors and potential disruptors, industry trends,
solution/product use, and solution/product performance.
- Communicates the vision, roadmap, features, priorities, and
results for the agile release train.
- Builds an energetic, engaged, and effective team of product
owners who will collaborate to deliver value to customers.
- Collaborates with peers, system architects, release train
engineers, product owners, and business leaders to guide and
deliver value to customers.
- Negotiates with stakeholders and members of the agile release
train about scope, priorities, and potential approaches
- Identifies and supports running experiments to learn and then
influence the next steps.
- Use lean and agile principles and practices to decompose large
solutions into features that provide incremental value. Defines a
successive set of minimal viable products that test assumptions and
translate learning into actions.
- Provides feedback to agile teams as they are building
solutions/products to ensure building the desired outcomes.
- Collects, analyzes, and uses data to drive decisions related to
features, priorities, staffing and other areas as needed. This
includes defining key performance indicators, leading indicators,
and other types of measures as well as working with agile teams to
automate the related data collection.
- Makes and/or facilitates decisions to rollout strategies and
go-to-market timing, change management activities and
marketing.
- Owns relationship with 3rd party applications/vendors. Critical
advocate of GFS business needs, understand the third party roadmap
and influences it.
- When necessary involved with contract management (monitor
contract dates, adapt license needs, google alert for security
related issues)and looping in legal and finance
- Leads and contributes to communication, marketing, and training
activities to support adoption and use of solution/products.
- Performs other duties as assigned.What you'll bring to the
table:
- Establish and maintain trusting relationships with diverse
stakeholders both inside and outside of the company
- Excellent listening and communication skills both written and
verbal
- Comfortable speaking to large groups (over 100 people) and able
to tell a story to explain the vision and to put work into
context
- Use principles of lean and agile product development to guide
the definition and prioritization of features and to manage the
backlog
- Understand the big picture and strategically optimize solutions
for the whole rather than a specific silo
- Collaborate closely with product owners, system architects,
business leaders, SMEs, and everyone on an agile release train
- Collaborate with others to identify incremental experiments to
guide larger decisions in complex situations
- Able to accept that some experiments will not return the
expected results and use that as a learning opportunity
- Encourage others to propose ideas, run experiments, and fully
contribute to solutions and problem solving
- Define key performance indicators- especially leading
indicators - to measure business outcomes driven by the agile
release train's releases.
- Use data to influence decisions about vision, near-term
priorities, and investing in various solutions.
- Able to create graphs, models, pictures, etc. help visualize
work and the impact of outcomes is a plus
- Is assertive; able to say "no" to stakeholders in order to
maintain vision, work-in-progress limits, priorities, or other
needs
- Able to respond to changes in a dynamic business environment
and live with various degrees of ambiguity
- Able to influence and negotiate honestly with othersBE PART OF
AN AMAZING CULTURE WHERE WHAT MATTERS TO YOU, MATTERS TO US!Gordon
Food Service values our customers and understands that their
success is largely dependent upon their workforce. To demonstrate
our commitment to our partnership, we will require any candidate
who works for a Gordon Food Service customer to provide a letter of
support from their management if they are selected for the
interview process.Gordon Food Service is an equal opportunity
employer.All qualified applicants and employees will receive
consideration for employment, or in terms or conditions of
employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a
protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with
disability. The EEO is the Law poster is available here:
http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf.
If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the
application or hiring process due to a disability, please submit
your request to talent@gfs.com and use the words "Accommodation
Request" in your subject line. Please keep in mind this method is
reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a
disability.All Gordon Food Service locations are
tobacco-free.Gordon Food Service is a drug-free workplace and drug
tests all employees.
Keywords: Disability Solutions, Wyoming , Product Manager, Executive , Wyoming, Michigan
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