Product Manager - Retail, Pune

About This Job

If you’re a Product Manager interested in product platform strategy and product suite development in the Retail, this is the opportunity for you. You’ll be at the heart of creating a comprehensive product strategy around meeting retailer needs with regards to customer, transaction, and market data and analytic solutions.​

In this role, you will contribute to a global product roadmap for retail clients and will prioritize, define, and then build capabilities to meet global retailer needs across NielsenIQ offerings. you’ll collaborate with a team of product, technology (app dev and architecture), operations, and commercial leaders to define product features and generate / maintain detailed requirements to ensure your product meets evolving client and industry needs. These tools will be used globally for Retailer and CPG/FMCG Manufacturers, from the largest companies in the world to small local ones. ​

You will contribute to building out retailer solutions across NielsenIQ's next generation Connect platform as well as various other NielsenIQ and partner platforms.   ​

Rationale:

Ability to form a point of view on the client benefits for your products and services and the value to NielsenIQ, connecting them to the design principles and articulating them to others​. Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, and flexible environment where no two days are the same​. Enjoys working in the gray or unknown - defining the undefined, challenging the status quo, and solving uncharted business challenges ​.Passion for using data to inform decisions and to advocate for our users​

Responsibilities:​

• Own the delivery of your product to meet the goals, customer segments and use cases defined by your product​.
• Develop user stories and requirements based on market and user experience research.
• Work with your scrum team(s) under the agile methodology to plan, execute and deploy features and functions. ​
• Manage the backlog, prioritization of features, value vs. complexity tradeoffs, and cross-functional dependencies / risks ​
• Ensures end to end product definition and delivery of solutions ​
• Form hypotheses and potential solutions quickly that can be vetted out in prototypes or wireframes​
• Be responsible for user acceptance testing as a proxy for internal and external clients, as they match your user journey​
• Evangelize the product(s) with internal stakeholders and clients as subject matter expert on the product​
• Able to articulate the product strategy, technical implementation, and operational process​
• Work with internal users, external customers and usage data to validate the effectiveness and success of your product ​

Qualification:​

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience​
• 2-4+ years of experience in a Product role, with previous experience in a Technology, Operations, or Data Science role​
• Solid ability to present information in the simplest and most compelling way​
• Solid communication skills, including the ability to influence key stakeholders and interface with clients​
• Experience in Platform and or cloud services is a plus​
• Experience in Portal tools and/or Salesforce is a plus​
• Experience in FMCG and/or Retail industry is a plus​
• Good understanding of technical concepts, services and implementations​
• Excited to ideate on new challenges while simultaneously diving into the details​

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About NielsenIQ 

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. We provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers/fast-moving consumer goods and retailers with accurate, actionable information and insights and a complete picture of the complex and changing marketplace that companies need to innovate and grow. Our approach marries proprietary NielsenIQ data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge.  We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 90 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.niq.com.

NielsenIQ is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.