Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Chicago, IL (hybrid 3 days onsite)

6 months

Contact Mary at mnugent@forbestc.com

Responsibilities :

• Provide day to day support for 4 portals and maintain multiple applications looking for ways to improve the platforms and build system efficiencies
• Bring the voice of the customer (internal and external) into the design and prioritization of enhancements.
• Create the roadmap for the various application enhancements based on guidance from FORG, resources, and budget.
• Ensure the development team has a thorough understanding of even the most complex requirements.
• Inspect completed work against requirements, customer needs, and business needs.
• Evolve and optimize features based on ongoing feedback.
• Gather and evaluate application needs through interviews and requirements gathering sessions, including customer usability sessions.
• Effectively communicate project status to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis to communicate status, new developments, acquire approval and buy-in, and gather feedback.
• Hold daily stand up calls and manage the development team via Jira or other agile tool.
• Develop and maintain project schedules to be used in tracking project milestones, dependencies, and deliverables. Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Track completion of tasks and follow up as needed to ensure timelines are met.
• Capture feedback from users and document changes for the product backlog. Also, assist in providing clear, thorough requirements and product specifications for the backlog.
• Create and maintain project documentation including but not limited to testing plans, training materials, presentations, standard operating procedures and communication plans
• Perform product testing, issue management, documentation, escalating when necessary, and ability to take corrective action.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, and presentations at varying audience levels, including senior management.

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