Sr. Product Manager

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

Whether you’re serving students in the cafeteria, managing school payments or communicating with parents, we’re focused on delivering innovative solutions along with exceptional service that help you be more successful.  Our solutions we’re specifically designed for K-12 to provide a more cohesive experience for students, parents, and staff.

Cafeteria management - Simply your entire nutrition program from the kitchen to the serving line with our complete front and back of the house solutions. Manage menus, inventory, and sales with ease.

Payment solutions - Manage all your school payments with MySchoolBucks. Send invoices when payments are due, create an online store, and give parents a convenient way to manage cafeteria meal accounts online or on-the-go.

Summary of This Role

Provides direction to product development and the overall process of the product and services function. Builds products and services from existing ideas and helps to develop new ideas based on industry experience and contact with customers and prospects. Increases profitability of existing products and services to developing new solutions which advance business objectives and client needs. Builds strong working relationships with marketing, sales, support staff, product development and vendors plus senior management and key customers.

What Part Will You Play?

• Manages the process from product development to product launch, ensuring execution is in line with project plan for complex product initiatives. In cases in which the product has a distinct PNL, the product manager has responsibility for managing a product's PNL to ensure profitability for product initiatives. For the International Business Segment, typical annual revenues for complex product initiatives would be approximately $250k to $500k.
• For assigned products, owns, manages, and communicates a product roadmap, including collaborating with industry analysts to form competitive analysis, and with delivery, sales, and relationship management teams to determine prioritization, development and ongoing costs of delivery, and market positioning.
• For assigned products, develops the "go to market packaging". Collaborates with product marketing to develop product marketing strategies based on established product objectives, costs, and value proposition. Reviews research with product marketing to quantify value proposition for inputs to pricing analysis and marketing collateral. Defines pricing strategies for new and existing products considering competitive pricing models, internal costs, value proposition metrics (e.g., savings to clients, process costs, etc.), and market acceptance and adoption rates. Participates in defining alternative models complete with benefits, and present final pricing recommendations to executive management for adoption.
• Develops comprehensive business cases requiring analytical skills to assimilate complex data and concepts for new product functionality to serve as inputs to decision-making, prioritization, pricing, and client value proposition.
• For assigned product initiatives, collaborates with company business leaders, sales, IT, legal, strategic marketing and relationship management teams to define product goals, objectives, market positioning, and pricing strategies for each assigned product. Uses independent judgment to determine methods and procedures for managing product strategy.
• Follows a structured, repeatable process for conducting market research to include industry publications, analyst research, experiential research, client surveys, etc. Develops and maintains a strategic planning approach for summarizing and communicating the results of aggregate research.
• Facilitates product concept and requirements workshops with clients and internal development teams in pursuit of product requirements, objectives, and architecture decisions. Documents workshop results in a format suitable for consumption by all audiences, including interactive review and feedback from clients and internal parties. Answer questions during workshop, adds points of clarification and completes any necessary follow-up action items.
• For assigned products, collaborates with product delivery and technology architecture to validate detailed design, particularly to ensure that product objectives and key requirements are met and aligned with the market needs and business unit strategy . Provides design direction, testing support, and general assistance to delivery team, as needed, during the execution phase of product development consisting of complex scopes.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Relevant Experience or Degree in: Business or Computer Science; Combination of relevant training and/ or experience in lieu of degree
• Typically Minimum 8 Years Relevant Exp
• Experience in similar business product services and/or external customer/market experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefer experience in a software development environment or in a professional services role. Prefer software or IT background (i.e., degree or experience). Prefer direct experience with doing software development, testing and/or business analysis. Prefer experience with Agile software products and delivery methodology.
• Proven ability to conduct analyses as efficiently as possible to ensure that project timelines are met without sacrificing quality
• Experience with SCRUM development methodology and writing user stories
• Ability to write clear market-driven product requirements and/or user stories 
• School Nutrition industry experience desired
• Some knowledge of technology and its application in the K-12 market
   

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• Skills / Knowledge - Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Having ownership of a function, account or matrix management responsibilities, uses knowledge to ensure success, strengthen relationships, expand the business, and lead matrix teams on complex projects. Barriers to entry such as technical committee review may exist at this level.
• Job Complexity - Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Creates formal networks involving coordination among groups, both internal and external. Manages a heavy workload in a demanding environment.
• Supervision - Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments.
• Problem Solving - A seasoned, experienced professional with strong problem solving skills and problem resolution based on a broad base of business knowledge
• Requirements Gathering - Analyzes updates to industry regulatory requirements, identifies market trends, and analyzes competitor products to formulate product recommendations. Engages internal and external stakeholders to extract business needs and translates them into documented requirements.  Conducts cross-product comparisons and identifies the most valuable/meaningful feature gaps 
• Engagement - Demonstrates exceptional people, communication and collaboration skills to support working in a complex, multi-faceted business.  Effectively  influences cross-functional teams without formal authority.
   

Work Environment:

The work necessary for this role would primarily be accomplished from Rochester, NY based office, but remote will be considered. Expectation will be able to work during ET or CT business hours.

The US base salary for this full-time position is $102,000 + Benefits. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training

Global Payments, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other protected status. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required

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