Senior Product Manager

About Ascendion:

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

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Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

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We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience.

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Experience a community of change-makers!  

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

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 About the Role 

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Job Title: Product Manager II – Supply Chain Data (Parcel, Reverse Logistics, SC Planning)

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Description:

Description:

• The Product Manager II focuses most of their time on execution, with an emphasis on influencing ways of working across product management within the Supply Chain Data domain.  
• In addition, this role encompasses a higher-level proficiency when considering business operations and impact to the overall product strategy.  
• The responsibilities of the product manager II will be identifying opportunities, delivering products/features, forming/communicating/tracking KPIs and metrics, and enlisting/enabling stakeholders.

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Identify Opportunities:

• Utilize data to discover customer pain points and identify the right problems to solve.
• Prioritize the problems for best business outcomes.  
• Identify patterns in the data and build phase, while also creating standardized research models that will be used by the business intelligence team.  
• Setting and aligning other product teams to the long-term and short-term visions of the team.  

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Deliver Products / Features:

• Identify and mitigate dependencies across teams/stakeholder impacting releases or projects
• Collaboratively build the Data Story map & corresponding data stories/acceptance criteria for all projects that the team is working.
• Build the release plans and prioritization of feature releases. Identify and communicate risks associated when releasing features.
• Participate in sprint planning and iterative planning meetings for alignment of team against team goals.
• Builds the roadmap, collaboratively with all stakeholders, based on outcomes and effectively explaining the “why” of prioritizations. Communicates the roadmap strategy to relevant stakeholders.

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Relationship Building:

• Independently builds strong relationships with business partners to understand the business needs and data and analytic challenges.  
• Partners with key internal business partners, external business partners, and tech partners to communicate data validation issues.
• Display agility to Influence teammates and peers without formal authority
• Create a people-first culture where teammates thrive by conducting coaching conversations and delivery of effective feedback to teammates

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Form & Track KPIs / Metrics:

• Gather data and conduct research to inform product trends. Measure the adoption, usage, and business impact of launches to prove the ROI of the work being completed
• Build product objectives and goals in collaboration with key stakeholders. Drive accountability from both internal teammates and other product teammates on completion of aligned tasks.
• Understand and implement a goal framework tool that will aid in setting up metrics and product outcomes.  

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Enlist & Enable Stakeholders (Strategy):

• Utilize evidence-based influencing skills to conduct stakeholder identification workshops and create stakeholder maps by product
• Creates, maintains, and communicates stakeholder touchpoints to maintain alignment amongst all affected parties. Conducts the stakeholder input sessions and translates stakeholder knowledge into inputs to prioritize against product vision.

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Salary Range:

The salary for this position is between $160,000 – $170,000 USD annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

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Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year.  

The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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Want to change the world? Let us know.  

Tell us about your experiences, education, and ambitions. Bring your knowledge, unique viewpoint, and creativity to the table. Let’s talk!