Product Manager

Job Description

•Main Objective:
We are looking for a product manager who is responsible for both product Management and product planning and marketing

•Main Responsibilities:
-Submit time plan for development of assigned IT tools and make recommendations when necessary according to the corporate mission and strategy
-Ensure development of the application specifications according to the end user requirements inline with Company Policy and IT security policies
-Defining development and testing processes and procedures
-Report to senior management deviations from plan and propose recovery plans
-Organize the user acceptance tests and follow up on corrections or improvements with Business Analyst in application team/Process and Quality Team as required
-Execute security test according to the Company guidelines
-Follow or execute application deployments and trainings
-Ensure to get the transfer of knowledge from the third party
-Ensure to get the proper documentations required
-Deliver MRDs and PRDs with prioritized features and corresponding justification
Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities.
-Vendor Management. Defining proper strategy for development and Source code handover in case of need
-Managing system enhancement, Data Migration
-Managing Software development projects based on Scrum and agile methods
-Working closely and harmonizing with Infrastructure and network manager, Process Quality manager and Operation manager
-Define and set individual and collective objectives (KPI’s) for the team, cascaded down from the general department objectives, within the performance review process
-Evaluate individual and collective objective achievements in consultancy with the IT senior Manager
-Optimize and improve the team performance in terms of organization and proper size. Highlight specific training needs
-Supervise and follow up the team’s day to day activities, define priorities, and choose orientations.
-Organize and run regular team meetings to cascade information and collect information (issues, problems, difficulties) for senior management, if necessary
-Motivate and engage the team through regular communication and monitoring of the teams
-Promote a positive working atmosphere within the team. Mediate and address conflicts, if necessary
-Hiring and release resources according to the demand plan based on Corporate strategy and individual’s performance
-Managing development team, Operation team share of responsibilities and job descriptions and clarifications.
-Ensure coherent design of IT application data structure and business flow
-Ensure consistency of business data in integration of assigned IT tools with related systems
-Designing corporate applications framework according to business need
-Consolidate user requirements and develop the annual plan Validate the scope of works of new applications
-Ensure on time tools development and testing follow ups with the proper methodology
-Ensure to conduct User Acceptance Test with corrections applied
-Validate the date of roll-outs and supervise deployments
-Ensure proper documentation management is in place
-Deliver solutions to the market Release Planning
-Defining proper strategy for sales and marketing of developed products