Product Manager - Finance Consultant

Company Description

QAD is building a world-class SaaS company, and we are growing. We are looking for talented individuals who want to join us on our mission to help solve relevant real-world problems in manufacturing and the supply chain.

We are a virtual first company and your primary work experience will be virtual / working from your home.  Occasional travel to a physical office may be required to enhance working relationships, collaboration, design, strategy and alignment.    

Job Description

QAD has a position for a Product Manager of its portfolio finance applications who will perform a strategic role and require a set of different skills. The role of a product manager is to be an executive advisor regarding QAD products and product direction that closely works together with stakeholders in Engineering, Sales, and Marketing. A product manager is primarily a team player, adept at managing relationships both inside and outside of the company, collaborating and influencing across a variety of organizational functions.

This position can require domestic and international travel to customer and prospect sites up to 1-2 times per year.

This is a remote position with occasional visits to an office

A successful candidate may work from Spain, Ireland, the UK, France or Poland.

What you’ll do:

• Act as the “messenger of the market” from the outside-in to the rest of the organization.
• Analyze various market segments and collaborate with leadership to choose the best ones to pursue.
• Develop product development roadmaps to illustrate vision and plans into the future.
• Develop and maintain business proposals that make a compelling case for new or continued investment into products.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders such as product marketing on the creation of positioning for products.
• Manage the entire product line life cycle from sunsetting legacy products to prototyping and testing new features/products and ideas.
• Drive buy-build-partner analysis, and where necessary, review potential partner relationships for the product.
• Know why QAD is winning and losing in the market, and drive changes to QAD products and processes to create improvement.
• Keep a finger on the pulse of the competition, and develop strategies and tactics to reduce the threat.
• Train and steer product owners so that they can effectively steer Scrum teams in QAD Engineering to develop solutions that can successfully be implemented by customers.
• Serve as the internal and external evangelist for the assigned product offering, including presenting at both internal or specific customer events.
• Assist Sales in positioning and convincing customers of the benefits of QAD products via presentations, customer visits and participating in sales calls.
• Assist Support in case of escalations or customer debates about fit for purpose of the QAD applications. This can require acting as an R&D escalation manager and working directly with an R&D/Support team to resolve the escalation.

Qualifications

• Relevant bachelor's degree in business, finance, engineering, or computer science.  Advanced degree desirable. 
• 5+ years of marketing, implementation, sales, or product management experience, specifically in the finance applications area. 
• Typically a product manager of finance applications , a finance controller with experience implementing ERPs or finance systems, a pre-sales ERP finance engineer, or an ERP finance consultant 
• Strong finance background is required
• Relevant experience with ERP or financial software development, implementation, or selling in QAD-selected target markets. 
• Must be a strong writer and public speaker in front of large, senior groups.
• Experience with the Pragmatic Institute Product Management Framework is a plus.
• Tech savvy and passionate about building products.
• Track record of using qualitative and quantitative data to prioritize and drive decision-making..
• Metrics-driven: Strong analytical and synthesis skills are a must, including the ability to absorb and process large amounts of data into actionable information.
• Familiarity with best practice agile scrum development principles is a plus.
• Curious and comfortable holding professional conversations with our target buyers, partners, and users.
• Excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams, and third parties.
• Subject matter expert/industry experience is a strong plus.
• This position can require domestic and international travel to customer and prospect sites up to 1-2 times per year.

Additional Information

• Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.
• Opportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.
• Collaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.
• An atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.
• Compensation packages based on experience and desired skill set

About QAD:
QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises. QAD solutions help customers in the automotive, life sciences, packaging, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech and industrial manufacturing industries rapidly adapt to change and innovate for competitive advantage. 

QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions, respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QAD’s DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity, equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.

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