Product Manager

Product Manager

Location - Mexico City, Mexico

Full Onsite

The IBP Product Consultant will be a critical member of the global IBP product management team. They own technical solution delivery and will work cross functionally with process, adoption, and strategy teams to deliver IBP for a local market. The Product Consultant will have to adapt to the dynamic needs of the business and ensure IBP is positioned to drive optimal business value. This includes balancing the development of a global product vs. local market needs. This role will focus on driving the IBP Product across assigned demand planning and demand management elements, which may include one or several of the following: Forecast Engine, demand integration with SAP IBP, Demand Control, Product Management Review, Demand Management Review, Integrated Review, and Management Business Review workstreams.
- Coordinates and communicates across internal and external teams
- Frequent communication with product lead and other senior leaders to shape and deliver on the product roadmaps and business goals
- Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective.
- Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases.
- Drive team iteration execution communicates with management and stakeholders.
- This role will lead and closely coordinate with Product lead, Technical teams, Technical Program Managers and Scrum masters

**Mandatory/Required: Responsibilities**:

- Own design, build and deployment of the product in a local market
- Act as the integrator role for all streams of work for the market
- Own and manage the product roadmap and prioritization of features to be enabled for the market, in collaboration with the Global IBP Product Consultants/CoE
- Manage cross workstream dependencies,
- Own overall quality of product being delivered
- Measure, manages and reports on KPIs for the product in the market
- Lead key stakeholders, business engagement, and Product Consultants to socialize product plans and requirements, research, brainstorm and validate new functionality, and address any product issues
- Demonstrate passion for excellence related to product design, delivery, and engineering
- Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance.
- Lead the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices.
- Helps the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction
- Assist the scrum and development teams in self-organization
- Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity

**Qualifications**:

- IBP, Demand Planning, Supply Chain experience preferred
- 5+ years of product management with experience creating strategic product roadmaps and working with cross-functional teams in a highly-matrixed environment
- 3+ years CPG beverage demand planning or similar experience
- Experience building and launching products from ideation through launch and revision.
- Strong knowledge and experience in agile methodologies, experience working with multiple scrum teams on simultaneous builds
- Experience managing daily technical and design direction
- Bachelor’s degree required; Bachelor’s degree in quantitative or engineering related field preferred
- CPG experience preferred

**Skills, Abilities, Knowledge**
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, along with the ability to influence and demonstrate confidence in communications with senior level management.
- Positive and flexible attitude to enable adjusting to different needs in an ever-changing environment.
- Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; comfortable managing trade-offs.
- Proactively drives impact and engagement while bringing others along.
- Ability to lead others without direct authority

**Job Type**: Contract

Work Location: In person