Product Marketing Manager

Are you excited by the opportunity to bring your product marketing experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for content, AI, and technology?
Would you like to join an organization that is consistently recognized as a 'Top Employer to Work For’ across a broad range of categories, such as Culture, Work-Life Balance, Diversity & Inclusion, Opportunities for Women, Social Impact, Volunteerism?
We are seeking a creative, collaborative, and motivated Product Marketing Manager to join our team. This role advances the proposition of the Thomson Reuters Corporates portfolio to meet customer needs, drive satisfaction scores, and grow revenue. Reporting to the Director of Product Marketing Strategy, Corporates, the Product Marketing Manager, Strategy and Operations will work closely with product marketing leaders and key partners across the business to support the overall direction of our Corporates Product Marketing team, helping drive critical strategic, cross divisional projects. You will be a key partner to the Director of Product Marketing Strategy, assisting with projects and initiatives as delegated, all with the goal of ensuring we have the strategy and operations needed to continue making Corporates Product Marketing the world class team it is.
Note: This is an individual contributor role that requires candidates to be near any of these Hub office locations: Ann Arbor, MI area, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX area (Frisco), or Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN area (Eagan) for *hybrid structure (*mix of working from home and in-office).

About the role

In this opportunity as a Product Marketing Manager, you will:

Planning and Operations

• Support key cross-functional initiatives for the Corporates Product Marketing team including, but not limited to: customer advocacy programs, pan-Corporates messaging and value proposition, pan-Corporates Cross Sell Strategy, and other high priority business initiatives.
• Exceptional facilitation skills, including experience supporting executive teams to make decisions and move work forward 
• Demonstrated experience planning and delivering complex projects with cross-functional requirements. Actively execute phases of projects with influence and keeping team members aligned. 
• Identifies, assesses, and manages risks to the success of the project and ensures stakeholders have information to make effective decisions. 

Customer Focus and Strategy

• Demonstrate relentless customer focus: work to understand the voice of the customer to refine and clarify value propositions to specific personas / use cases / customer types / etc.
• Spend significant time with customers and non-customers; ultimately delivering outside-the-company insights back into the company
• Able to look across typical sales or product development functions and take holistic ‘One Corporates’ view when tackling opportunities. 
• Demonstrate and build expertise on key propositions and industry trends; be viewed as a thought leader in the Corporates legal, tax, risk, and trade space

Communications and Teamwork

• Superior communication skills, able to distill high volumes of information into concise, relevant reports. Mastery of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint; Effectively communicate complex ideas at multiple organizational levels and modify personal approach and style to reflect changing circumstance. 
• Builds key relationships with all areas of the business to ensure the success of the project
• Partner and collaborate with internal stakeholders (e.g., Digital, Marketing, Product Management, Product Development, Sales, Market Research) to ensure product roadmaps are attuned to our customers’ most pressing needs

Analysis

• Conduct deep competitive analysis bringing meaningful and actionable intelligence to multiple internal partners
• Lead market research efforts designed to clarify both longer range opportunities and more immediate burning questions
• Make an impact by assisting with new product enhancement ideas and accompanying business cases that fit under the broader Corporates product lines
• Engage in partnership/vendor ideation sessions; facilitate partnership/vendor strategy
• Seek out, analyze, and synthesize data, both internal and external, to bring fresh insights

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Product Marketing Manager if your background includes:

• 3 - 5+ years of product marketing and/or direct industry experience
• Have a desire to test and learn and have an appetite for and comfort with ambiguity
• The ability to think strategically about a business with a persistent desire to always look for new opportunities to solve business problems with data-driven insights
• Understand commercial, competitive, technological, and strategic drivers and how they shape strategy
• Are proficient in the development of portfolio value propositions and a core understanding of product marketing
• Can drive a dotted line project team to achieve material progress toward stated objectives
• Possess superior client engagement skills, including the ability to build and manage internal client relationships
• Demonstrated success navigating complex organizations and ability to influence diverse audiences, including senior stakeholders
• Can craft and communicate well structured stories for purposes of influencing internal and external audiences
• Engaging, collaborative, low-ego style: Aligned to and willing to live the Thomson Reuters Mindsets and Behaviors and Trust Principles

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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