Manager - Products (D365)

Avendus; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Avendus, located in Mumbai, is seeking a Product Manager with expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and data analytics. This role involves leading solution design and executing strategic technology initiatives across various business verticals.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience, including 3 years as a Product Manager, coupled with strong data analysis and stakeholder management skills. The position presents an opportunity to innovate and lead in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with 3+ years as a Product Manager.
• Experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 consulting or project management.
• Hands-on ability to prepare customer journeys and user stories.

Responsibilities

• Lead D365 Sales Enterprise implementation and enhancements.
• Drive user training, communication, and adoption strategies.
• Analyze data, derive insights, and embed them into business actions.

Skills

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

SQL

Python

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering (BE/BTech)

Master's in Business (MBA)

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

We believe that technology and technology led products will be key to achieve our ambitious growth objectives in the years to come. It is currently one of our biggest areas of focus and we will push our limits to create products and platforms to provide us a competitive advantage in the market and strengthen our leadership position. The diverse businesses that Avendus have are significantly dependent on knowledge, relationships, and experience - which are going to be core drivers for the technology and product build out.

At this stage, we have embarked on a journey to re-imagine the possibilities that technology & data can bring and provides with a unique opportunity to build the entire application landscape grounds up through an effective mix of proprietary & SaaS applications and harness the power of data across the businesses.

We are looking for a Product Manager with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and data & analytics experience who will understand the current and future business needs (specifically ways to acquire, harness and use data for business decisions), the evolving technology landscape and facilitate the solution design and executions of these strategic initiatives and stich them together to fulfil the technology vision. The role provides exposure to all the business verticals within Avendus – Investment Banking, Wealth, Assets and NBFC and will directly work with business and operational heads to shape the technology agenda.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

• Lead D365 Sales Enterprise implementation and enhancements - Drive requirement gathering, solution design, release planning, and optimization of D365 Sales Enterprise to support CRM, product pipeline management, workflows, and operational journeys.
• Change management and user adoption - Drive user training, communication, and adoption strategies to ensure successful rollout and continuous improvement of D365 and other tech solutions.
• Data integrity, security and compliance alignment - Work along with the business teams, Power BI specialists and compliance team to ensure project outputs adhere to business-specific data protection standards, audit guidelines, regulatory frameworks and data integrity.

Core Product Manager (Generalist + Data ) responsibilities

• Conceptualize product ideas, articulate business requirements, plan development activities and facilitate product / platform development in an agile environment
• Work closely with product manager, business teams, solution architect and UX specialist, to map ideas / expectations into user journeys, detailed product specifications and methods to deliver it
• Collect and analyze feedback from customers, business stakeholders, and other teams to shape the product vision, business requirements, product features and data models
• Ability to do exploratory analysis - fetch data from systems and analyze trends
• Analyze data, derive insights, and embed it into business actions
• Innovatively bring new data sources & map them to existing decision models of data platforms for better output
• Help the Lead Product Manager / VP to deliver new product features by working alongside tech & business teams
• Map the input and output of ML oriented systems and help train the system through testing & feedback
• Lead the story mapping and acceptance criteria process with buy in from all stakeholders
• Partner with engineering teams in an agile environment to land the MVP and subsequent phases in quick time
• Lead scrum teams and ensure scrum ceremonies are being followed towards the sprint goals
• Create test strategy, test plan and facilitate user acceptance testing of the products
• Decide opportunities for improvements post product release through measurements and feedback
• Facilitate end-user adoption, training and guidance

EXPERIENCE/SKILLS REQUIRED

• Overall 5+ years exp with 3+ years as a Product Manager
• 2+ years into Microsoft Dynamics 365 consulting, solutioning or project management
• Bachelors in Engineering (BE / BTech) or Masters in Business (MBA) preferred
• Hands-on demonstrated ability to effectively prepare and maintain customer journeys, user stories, backlogs, data models, project plans and test plans in an agile environment
• Must have experience in handling digital products / platform in a cloud environment
• Experience of working in a data-oriented product / platform / data lake environment
• Expertise in data analysis, data mapping, trend analysis and data visualization
• Knowledge of financial industry and products is desirable and exposure to wealth business is a plus
• Proven ability of using complex analytical, interpretive, and problem-solving techniques
• Expertise in SQL, Python, Excel and BI tools like Power BI is desirable
• Excellent stakeholder management and presentation skills
• Ability to challenge existing and conventional wisdom to create new process and systems