Product Management Data Specialist

SoftClouds, LLC.; San Diego (CA); Presencial; USD 70.000 - 110.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

SoftClouds, LLC. in San Diego seeks a Product Management Data Specialist to execute product management support and administration, ensuring accurate product specifications and pricing data across business systems.

The role trains Global Product Management teams and drives data governance to improve decision quality and reduce cycle times. The position focuses on data management, lifecycle maintenance, and process standardization across regions, with collaboration among Product Managers, Inside

Qualificações

• Education Required: BS in Business, Web/Software Development, Information Systems or related experience.
• Experience Required: Minimum of 3 years.
• Travel Required: < 10%.
• Experience with product bill of materials and configuration preferred.
• Highly proactive, extremely organized, self-starter capable ofmanaging several projects at the same time.
• Ability to drive efficiency for the global Product Management team pursuing solutions andproviding recommendations for enhanced operations.
• Able to build positive business relationships and work collaborativelyacross organizational and regional boundaries.
• High level of customer service with effective communication and presentation skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Demonstrates proficiency with Microsoft Office products especially Excel.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence preferred.
• Field Marketers.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and manage data governance across product lifecycle, ensuring accurate specs, pricing, and attributes in all systems.
• Coordinate product launches, updates, and discontinuations across regions.
• Setup and maintain product configurations in ordering systems and pricing sources.
• Validate product setups with cross-functional teams prior to launch.
• Create documentation including price pages and bid specs for marketing and other functions.
• Oversee data standards and cleansing to support global catalog accuracy.
• Collaborate with regional teams to structure catalog for easy quoting and ordering.
• Drive standardization across systems (Specification, Inventory, Retails, Warranty, Dealer Marketing).
• Identify operational improvements and communicate outcomes to Product Managers and stakeholders across regions.

Conhecimentos

Proactive

Organized

Self-starter

Process efficiency

Stakeholder relations

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Excel proficiency

Jira

Confluence

Formação

BS in Business, Web/Software Development, Information Systems or related experience

Ferramentas

Jira

Confluence

Oracle Configurator

SAP Variant Configurator

Data Admin

Dealer Quote to Order

Descrição da vaga

The Product Management Data Specialist is responsible for the execution of productmanagement support and administration activities ensuring that information about Client productsis shared appropriately between business systems and functional groups. This position will provideregular process guidance and training to the Global Product Management teams, includingproactively identifying and recommending ways to improve the current product launch processeswith the goals of improving decision quality, reducing cycle time, improving scalability, andimproving efficiency. This position ensures that internal stakeholders, systems, and distributionchannels are using the same product, specification, and pricing information from a well-maintainedsource. This position will facilitate the continuation of efficient data management and order entry inall regions and serve to develop and enforce good processes globally.

• Support the Product Managers across regions through management and coordination of keyprocesses, including but not limited to launching new products, keeping existing products up todate, price changes, and product discontinuations.
• Execute all data requests for new products and updates to existing products.
• Maintain and provide accurate product information and pricinginformation for Client channel partners and Client personnel through printedmaterials, PDF documents for distribution via channel applications and inquoting and ordering systems.
• Setup new product, option package configurations, NAGS/Key account specific items, pricing,and other relevant information in ordering systems such as Oracle Configurator, SAP VariantConfigurator, Data Admin, , and Dealer Quote to Order.
• Conduct validation sessions with Product Manager(s), Inside Sales representative and ProductCall Center representative to ensure product is set up accurately prior to launch.
• Create supporting product documentation including price pages and bid specifications that willbe provided for Marketing and other interested functions.
• Entry and continued management of product specifications and auto order rules in systems toensure distribution channel is working off the latest information.
• Manage product information through entire product life cycle from creation to discontinuationensuring that all systems are updated appropriately throughout.
• Governance.
• Identify and execute operational improvement initiatives and communicate implementedsolutions to Product Managers and other affected departments across regions.
• Lead the cleansing, normalization and standardization of global product information includingpart numbers, descriptions, specifications and other related data working with ProductManagers, ECOCs, Inside Sales, and IT.
• Closely collaborate with product managers, inside sales and commercial team across regions tostructure the product catalog to support easy quoting and ordering by users but also meetscompany requirements.
• Drive sharing of product information across systems including Specification System, Inventory,Retails and Warranty System, Dealer Marketing Systems and departments including Marketingand Service to ensure one source of truth.
• Drive consistent use of product information across all systems and regions by participating intechnical projects that require access to product information.
• Develop, follow, and enforce data standards across regions.
• Closely collaborate with resources in all regions to support thedata needs of product launch schedule.

Competitive Analysis

• Monitor and communicate competitor product intelligence toProduct Managers and Product Trainers.
• Maintain competitive specification data to be used in comparisons with Client products.
• Provide competitor product information to the Product Management Analytic and Reportingteam to ensure UCC data is mapped accurately to Client products.

Required Skills and Experience

• Education Required: BS in Business, Web/Software Development, InformationSystems or related experience.
• Experience Required: Minimum of 3 years.
• Travel Required: < 10%.
• Experience with product bill of materials and configuration preferred.
• Highly proactive, extremely organized, self-starter capable ofmanaging several projects at the same time.
• Ability to drive efficiency for the global Product Management team pursuing solutions andproviding recommendations for enhanced operations.
• Able to build positive business relationships and work collaborativelyacross organizational and regional boundaries.
• High level of customer service with effective communication and presentation skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Demonstrates proficiency with Microsoft Office products especially Excel.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence preferred.
• Field Marketers.

Education

• BS in Business, Web/Software Development, Information Systems or related experience.