Sr Manager, Product Management (Industrials)

Senior Manager - Product Management for Industrials – Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina or remote in NC

About the job

The Industrials team at SAS is looking for a Senior Manager - Product Management to support the software offerings from the Industrials department. You will be leading a team of Product Managers that defines the vision and roadmap for a portfolio of offerings that bring advanced analytics and performance management to large global manufacturing, industrial, retail, and consumer goods organizations.

As a Senior Manager, Product Management, you will:

• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers, driving successful execution of the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery plans while ensuring alignment with departmental and corporate objectives.
• Partner closely with Marketing, Sales, Commercialization, Engineering, and other cross-functional stakeholders to define product priorities, optimize investment decisions, and maximize market impact.
• Provide strategic leadership and engage senior management on key product, investment, and business decisions that influence product direction and long-term growth.
• Communicate and present product vision, strategy, roadmap, and business outcomes to internal stakeholders, customers, prospects, alliance partners, and industry analysts.
• Serve as a product and market champion by continuously evaluating customer needs, market trends, competitive offerings, emerging technologies, and industry developments to identify growth opportunities and strengthen the platform's market position.
• Drive product portfolio success by balancing customer requirements, market opportunities, technical feasibility, and business objectives.
• Lead all people-management responsibilities, including workforce planning, resource allocation, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, talent development, and succession planning.
• Establish clear performance expectations, provide regular coaching and feedback, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and high performance.
• Mentor and develop team members, encouraging continuous learning, innovation, professional growth, and leadership development.
• Promote a customer-centric and data-driven product management culture that delivers differentiated solutions and measurable business value.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or related discipline.
• Twelve years of experience in Marketing, Sales, Consulting or related function in the technology industry, including product management.
• Experience managing enterprise level software products and projects
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage in technical discussions with customers, partners, and industry analysts.
• Proven ability to work in a highly collaborative environment across multiple business units.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• Builds partnerships by developing and leveraging relationships within and across work groups to achieve results.
• Experience managing teams is desirable.
• Experience working in a continuous delivery development model.

World-class benefits

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include:
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that99s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

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