Product Readiness Manager (Hybrid role) - Full Life Cycle experience
American Cybersystems, Inc.

Job Info

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Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Sr. Product Readiness Manager

Position Type: Contract
Duration: 6-12+ Months (Possibility of Long term or Permanent Conversion)
Location: Dunwoody, GA - 2 Days Onsite

As a Sr. Product Readiness Manager, you will be seasoned in the full life cycle process (from start to finish)
The Product Readiness Manager is responsible for leading the development and execution of the go-to-market, launch, and post-launch plans for key products within the Mobility Product portfolio. This role will partner closely with the Mobility Product and Business Teams, as well as broader organizational boundary partners, to ensure all team members are equipped and working in alignment towards a successful product launch.

To be successful in this role, the candidate must have a combination of knowledge in product management, change management, operational execution, stakeholder engagement and consultation, user experience, and project management skills. They must also be a strong people influencer and driver for a shared future vision, collaborating and guiding the work of teams of product managers, professional services and project teams, and implementation teams to ensure a successful launch occurs for our clients. A working knowledge of Agile methodologies is helpful, as is experience with fleet operations, fleet management, and/or call center operations in the fleet space.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead development, communication, and execution of comprehensive product launch strategy; including go-to-market and post-launch plans.
• Work across organizational boundaries to ensure that all go-to-market goals and critical milestones are met. Lead commercialization stakeholder meetings and communicate status, drive accountability and decision making. Manage program risk by identifying and communicating issues as well as mitigation plans to all levels including leadership and recommending solutions.
• Work with business and operational leadership, product management, engineering, and product marketing to ensure success of product launches can be measured and achieve business goals. Define and build processes to track product performance using kpi's, metrics, analytics, dashboards etc. Suggest ideas for improvement.
• Keeps the voice and perspective of the customer present throughout the entire lifecycle of the product. Facilitate, capture and use of team member and client feedback. Promote client-centric value propositions and positioning to inform commercialization strategy. Tie product launches back to impacts to client journey in partnership with ux research team.
• Leverage change management principles to drive change with our internal stakeholders and clients. Sees the connection point across initiatives and calculates the impact to adoption. Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to ongoing changes.
• Synthesizes information quickly and composes concise and tailored messaging to audiences. Effectively uses persuasion and negotiation techniques with boundary partners. Builds networks of support for ideas and/or initiatives.
• Ensures that marketing, sales, client care, internal comms, public relations, and operations have all necessary information to effectively plan for, train and support new products and solutions being delivered.
• Drives processes that elevate our go-to-marketing planning and ensuring operational readiness for product launches. Champion continuous improvement using innovative ideas to increase effectiveness.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years of related experience
• Experience in project and/or change management.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of product development lifecycle and product launch practices and processes.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to engage supporting departments and obtain buy-in.
• Demonstrated success running projects that cross multiple departments, business units, processes and technologies.
• Demonstrated planning, analytical and organization skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
• Strong collaborating and influencing skills with the ability to lead without authority.
• Comfort and ability communicating with higher-level management.
• Comfort communicating complex business and product ideas into language that is understood by all supporting departments.
• Ability to gather and analyze information and data from multiple sources, prepare professional presentations, charts, graphs and tables of information for launch preparation.
• Excellent presentation skills.

Must Have Skills:

7+ years of the following: Product Implementation / Launch experience, Program Management experience, Business Stakeholder Management, Change Management experience, Agile familiarity.

Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration! Please hit APPLY to provide the required information, and we will be back in touch as soon as possible.
We are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar positions. If this role is not a fit for you, we do offer a referral bonus program for referrals that we successfully place with our clients, subject to program guidelines. ASK ME HOW.

Thank you!
Sahil Chawla
Senior Technical Recruiter
Sahil.chawla@innovasolutions.com

PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS:
Pay Range*: $65/hr. - $70/hr.
*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Benefits: Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following: Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

ABOUT INNOVA SOLUTIONS:Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Innova Solutions employs approximately 50,000 professionals worldwide and reports an annual revenue approaching $3 Billion. Through our global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe, we deliver strategic technology and business transformation solutions to our clients, enabling them to operate as leaders within their fields.

Recent Recognitions:

• One of Largest IT Consulting Staffing firms in the USA - Recognized as #4 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA 2022)
• ClearlyRated® Client Diamond Award Winner (2020)
• One of the Largest Certified MBE Companies in the NMSDC Network (2022)
• Advanced Tier Services partner with AWS and Gold with MS

Website: https://www.innovasolutions.com/

Innova Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Innova Solutions is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at hr@innovasolutions.com or (770) 493-5588. Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Innova Solutions encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities. Innova Solutions (HireGenics/Volt) does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. § 1324b.
The company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner that complies with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

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