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Job Description Summary

Wolters Kluwer Enablon is the software leader in integrated risk management (IRM), operational risk management (ORM) and environmental, health, safety, sustainability, and quality (EHSSQ) with millions of users in 160 countries.  Enablon and its more than 80 worldwide partners have driven innovation with its Fortune 100 customer base through industry events, executive engagement, customer innovation challenges, user groups, and customer workshops. Enablon’s mission is to help create a better world by making organizations responsible, productive, and safe through innovative technology. We are a fast-growing international company operating in more than 130 countries with a large diverse partnership network. Our global headquarters and main R&D divisions are in Paris (Bois-Colombes) and The Hague with North American headquarters in Chicago and offices in Houston, London, Sydney, Melbourne, and Montreal. Our solutions make a difference – and so do our people.

Job Description

The Product Manager – Chemical Management and Product Stewardship will be responsible for agile planning, delivery, and maintenance for our Chemical Management and Product Stewardship applications. They will own the vision for Enablon as a platform for managing 360-degree risk within our customer organizations from corporate to operational, and across departments and teams.

The Product Manager role requires knowledge of:

• Software development processes (such as Kanban, Scrum)
• Current Product Stewardship and Chemicals Management industry challenges and trends, approaches to management and execution of risk management programs; best practices, continuous improvement, and innovation in the risk management domain.
• Product management best practices to ensure that the Product team works most efficiently to identify, prioritize, specify, and deliver product improvements which meet market needs.

The role includes performing software release management, including short and long-term software roadmap and requirement specification development, product marketing and pre-and post-sales support, technical analysis, application design, and configuration management. In interaction with Clients, Prospects, Partners, Business Users, Pre-sales teams, Professional Services, Program Managers and Software developers, the position will be responsible for maximizing the revenue generated from the product portfolio.

This position can be fully remote.

Responsibilities:

Product Strategy

• Evangelize the Product Stewardship and Chemicals Management solutions, own, manage and be the point of contact for vision and roadmap
• Research and analyze market trends and problems within the Product Stewardship and Chemicals Management space
• Filter and validate market opportunities by leveraging Enablon’s unique ability to address them
• Conduct customer interviews, user groups, partner reviews, prototyping and piloting to refine problem definition.

• Define and size market segments or contribute to research on market size.
• Conduct win/loss analysis and competitors detailed analysis
• Position the Product Stewardship and Chemicals Management Product Portfolio for target market and buyer profiles
• Propose strategic product investment to address market and increase profitability while balancing resources and working in collaboration with Product Managers across the platform
• Define problems, user personas and articulate use cases. Software Product Design
• Write high-level software requirements for the development team that will be converted into user stories by the product owner
• Plan and monitor software deliverables, goals, and milestones to contribute to objectives
• Confirm software delivered matches requirements
• Manage all timeline changes and issues with stakeholders. Marketing & Sales Support
• Create compelling product marketing collaterals that address market problems, industry trends, common RFP and presales requirements or new technologies
• Create relevant launch material for both internal stakeholders (Presales, Services, Sales, Support) and business buyers and users at the customer
• Support the Sales and Customer Success channels with market, technical and product expertise e.g., key presales product demos, sandbox trials, customer success and account management reviews, product launch webinars
• Attend and speak at in region/virtual conferences and other industry events.

Skills / Competencies:

• A passion for customers’ needs, using technology and innovation to meet those needs and driving customer feedback into a product
• Attention to detail and an eye for quality
• Strong ability to prioritize, organize, and work in a fast-paced environment to deliver results on a timely basis
• Strong written communication skills
• Strong oral communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication style to your audience, e.g., technical/non-technical
• Strong knowledge in Chemical Management and Product Stewardship area such as: Chemical compliance regulations and reports such as: TSCA; REACH; TRI; Supply Chain Management; SDS Management & Authoring; Chemical and SDS Content integrations

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business, Environment, Health, Safety, Risk preferred.
• Master’s degree in any of these areas is desirable.

Experience:

• 3-5 years’ experience in B2B enterprise product management (Product Manager or Product Owner) is a must.
• Effective written and oral communication skills in English.
• Experience of working with risk management teams would be helpful.
• Business analysis for software implementations, software development, or other technology environments.
• Effective written and oral communication skills in English.
• Presales and presentation experience in a software sales environment.

Travel Requirements:

• Occasional travel to Customer on-site events, training and workshops and company conferences.
• If Remote, occasional travel to Enablon offices.