What are the responsibilities and job description for the Group Product Manager position at Ritchie Bros.?
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RB Global (NYSE: RBA)
RB Global (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) is a leading, omnichannel marketplace that provides value-added insights, services and transaction solutions for buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. Through its auction sites in 13 countries and digital platform, RB Global serves customers in more than 170 countries across a variety of asset classes, including automotive, commercial transportation, construction, government surplus, lifting and material handling, energy, mining and agriculture.
The company’s marketplace brands include Ritchie Bros., the world’s largest auctioneer of commercial assets and vehicles offering online bidding, and IAA, a leading global digital marketplace connecting vehicle buyers and sellers. RB Global’s portfolio of brands also includes Rouse Services, which provides a complete end-to-end asset management, data-driven intelligence and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, an innovative technology platform that supports customers’ management of the equipment lifecycle and integrates parts procurement with both OEMs and dealers; Xcira, a leader in live simulcast auction technologies; and Veritread, an online marketplace for heavy haul transport.
RB Global full-time employees are offered medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurances. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan and RB Global will match 100% for the first 4% contributed. Employees will also receive 15 days of PTO each year.
Job Description
The Group Product Manager is responsible for setting the vision/strategy for a significant portion of the buyer experience, while managing a team. This role will work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and own their, and their teams’ roadmaps. Works closely with design, engineering, and product to ensure a unified experience for our customers and hires, mentors, trains, and coaches direct reports, which may include a mix of full-time and contract employees.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
RB Global (NYSE: RBA)
RB Global (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) is a leading, omnichannel marketplace that provides value-added insights, services and transaction solutions for buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. Through its auction sites in 13 countries and digital platform, RB Global serves customers in more than 170 countries across a variety of asset classes, including automotive, commercial transportation, construction, government surplus, lifting and material handling, energy, mining and agriculture.
The company’s marketplace brands include Ritchie Bros., the world’s largest auctioneer of commercial assets and vehicles offering online bidding, and IAA, a leading global digital marketplace connecting vehicle buyers and sellers. RB Global’s portfolio of brands also includes Rouse Services, which provides a complete end-to-end asset management, data-driven intelligence and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, an innovative technology platform that supports customers’ management of the equipment lifecycle and integrates parts procurement with both OEMs and dealers; Xcira, a leader in live simulcast auction technologies; and Veritread, an online marketplace for heavy haul transport.
RB Global full-time employees are offered medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurances. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan and RB Global will match 100% for the first 4% contributed. Employees will also receive 15 days of PTO each year.
Job Description
The Group Product Manager is responsible for setting the vision/strategy for a significant portion of the buyer experience, while managing a team. This role will work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and own their, and their teams’ roadmaps. Works closely with design, engineering, and product to ensure a unified experience for our customers and hires, mentors, trains, and coaches direct reports, which may include a mix of full-time and contract employees.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for co-creating, shaping, and clarifying ambiguous and impactful strategies across the teams and organizations in conjunction with senior stakeholders to drive alignment
- Evaluates market and consumer user experience research and results based on discovered industry trends and competitor landscapes, through conversations with the customer, data analysis and metrics
- Effectively defines analysis/research across a broad range of areas and uses data as a key input for product decisions
- Ensures roadmap rationale is clear and in line with strategy, and in support of teams’ roadmaps
- Crafts a clear narrative to gain buy-in and to inspire others to ensure teams are aligned
- Meticulously ensures strategy and vision are up to date and thinks coherently across multiple teams while working to define what they need to learn
- Identifies and anticipates risks and issues, and proactively finds solutions to obstacles
- Acts as a role model and coaches, mentors, and manages others
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- 7 plus years’ experience in Product Management in progressively higher levels
- Prior experience managing staff in a technical environment
- Demonstrated obsession with building great user experiences and an eye for detail
- Ability to think big and small, to take a large vision and build incremental features and prototypes to align to that vision. Comfortable working with paper prototypes as you are building scalable features
- Communicates, in writing or in person, product decisions, rationale behind them, and are comfortable influencing people to get things done
- Experience working with qualitative and quantitative customer data to inform decisions. Should be able to switch between thinking creatively and analytically