Product Manager - Content Management (CMS)

Job Description

Are you passionate about product development? Can you lead projects and collaborate with multiple departments around the globe? Are you a great communicator who loves coming up with simple solutions to difficult problems? Do you have experience or passion for digital content publishing tools and processes? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you on our Product Development team.

Our clients rely on our insights to make successful business decisions. Our analysts need great tools to help them develop high quality insights quickly and effectively, using our data to tell compelling stories to support those decisions. We are on a path of digital transformation and our ability to continue to improve the way we manage and evolve our Content Management System will be key to our success. You’ll drive the ongoing tactical and strategic development of this key platform that enables us to deliver our content to our clients around the world.

We’re looking for a Product Manager who is already familiar with the digital content management landscape and how to leverage technology and workflows to effectively support content creators and managers to do their jobs. You’ll bring a clear point of view about the value of clean, simple, consistent processes and interfaces and be ready to collaborate with our content, engineering, UX and digital publishing teams globally to bring a high quality experience. You need to be well organized, pragmatic and keen to work with a wide variety of people and teams to help make the best decisions for the future of our products and will likely have the opportunity to travel to some of Mintel's global offices (Chicago, London, Singapore, Shanghai).

Responsibilities:

• Experiment and measure : Think creatively about how we can improve our content management system for our users, rapidly testing your hypotheses before rolling out improvements to our global teams.
• Data driven decisions : Gather and use data and insight to drive strategic decision-making and development of requirements to improve our content management processes and interface.
• User centric decisions : Work closely with our internal teams to identify their needs and satisfaction levels.
• End-to-end ownership : Manage the product development process from idea generation to delivery. This includes needs assessment, creating comprehensive product specification, managing project plans, testing of new developments and leading cross-functional project teams.
• Delivery driven : Drive the day-to-day management of our Content Management System. This includes ongoing prioritization of issues, change requests and new feature requests. Manage a strong working relationship with IT to ensure needs are met and deadlines are observed.
• Visionary : Collaborate with the Global Product Team to develop and advance our product strategy, as a champion and thought leader for Mintel’s products.
• Stakeholder communications and buy-in : Partner with the Engineering, UX, Digital Publishing, Analysts and Research teams to develop and deliver excellent communication plans for all system changes and improvements.

Required Skills / Abilities:

• Minimum 3 years business related experience, ideally but not necessarily focused on product management
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellent written and oral communication and listening skills
• Proven experience and success with agile project management practices
• Ability to present and facilitate meetings at top management level
• Ability to maintain good working relations while simultaneously taking a confident stand to solve problems
• Ability to negotiate for optimal outcomes
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, adhere to deadlines, deliver high-quality results and to

manage multiple priorities

The ideal candidate will have significant recent experience working with Content Management Systems and digital publishing processes.

Required Experience / Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience

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