USI Marketing Product Management Advisor

Responsibilities

• Under limited supervision, leads development and execution of product/portfolio strategies and plans, taking into account product life cycle stage and the customer experience.
• Performs fact-based data analysis and interpretation to identify critical business insights.
• Identifies and prioritizes new features, including market analysis, business case development and driving prioritization
• Leads and executes complex new product development initiatives across large, cross-functional and global work teams
• Actively coaches others in less senior positions
• Leads development and implementation of marketing, sales and all other activities, as needed, to achieve the necessary business outcomes.
• Independently lead needed market, economic and competitive evaluations that affect product performance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• This role also involves understanding the reasons behind product and portfolio performance, translating insights into actionable recommendations, and communicating findings and recommendations effectively to senior leadership. Strong business and financial acumen is required, including experience with business cases and scenario modeling.
• support forecasting processes, and assist in analyzing performance drivers to identify opportunities for growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree/equivalent in product marketing, economics, business, or related field.
• Five (5) years work experience in functions focused on product management, market analysis or research, or equivalent. More advanced degrees may offset experience requirements. A related Master’s Degree equals two (2) years experience.
• Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities Superior knowledge of competitive, market and economic factors affecting product performance and ability to perform fact based data analysis. Expert communication and presentation skills, quantitative, problem structuring and solving skills. Superior executive presence, human relations, networking and influencing skills. Strong project management and project management leadership experience.