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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