What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Manager position at Forbes Technical Consulting?
Senior Product Manager
Chicago, IL (hybrid 3 days onsite)
6 months
Contact Mary at mnugent@forbestc.com
Responsibilities :
- Provide day to day support for 4 portals and maintain multiple applications looking for ways to improve the platforms and build system efficiencies
- Bring the voice of the customer (internal and external) into the design and prioritization of enhancements.
- Create the roadmap for the various application enhancements based on guidance from FORG, resources, and budget.
- Ensure the development team has a thorough understanding of even the most complex requirements.
- Inspect completed work against requirements, customer needs, and business needs.
- Evolve and optimize features based on ongoing feedback.
- Gather and evaluate application needs through interviews and requirements gathering sessions, including customer usability sessions.
- Effectively communicate project status to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
- Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis to communicate status, new developments, acquire approval and buy-in, and gather feedback.
- Hold daily stand up calls and manage the development team via Jira or other agile tool.
- Develop and maintain project schedules to be used in tracking project milestones, dependencies, and deliverables. Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
- Track completion of tasks and follow up as needed to ensure timelines are met.
- Capture feedback from users and document changes for the product backlog. Also, assist in providing clear, thorough requirements and product specifications for the backlog.
- Create and maintain project documentation including but not limited to testing plans, training materials, presentations, standard operating procedures and communication plans
- Perform product testing, issue management, documentation, escalating when necessary, and ability to take corrective action.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, and presentations at varying audience levels, including senior management.
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