IT Product Manager

Job Requirements

IT Product Manager | OmniCable

Our Opportunity

OmniCable, LLC (OmniCable) is one of the largest redistributors of wire, cable, fiber, electrical and communications products. The company empowers distributors to be successful by providing a true partnership approach with a focus on product and order accuracy, supply chain management, and unique value-added services. With approximately $400 million dollars in inventory and 18 North American distribution locations, OmniCable is backed by more than 45 years of experience and operational excellence. For more information about OmniCable, please visit www.omnicable.com.

OmniCable is subsidiary of Dot Family Holdings. Our employees are all working towards the same goal, which is our mission statement: To be the best vendor to our customers, the best customer to our vendors, and the best employer to our employees. We believe in empowering your future!

What You’ll Do

The IT Product Manager is responsible for working with internal and external stakeholders to outline IT project needs. S/he will be responsible for achieving successful implementation of multi-phased projects/ programs and managing all activities required to define, design, develop and deliver programs or solutions to business sponsors. Primary role involves providing direction to cross-functional project teams on multiple projects comprised of both Information Technology and Business Components. S/he must be savvy working with both technology and business partners across the organization in a collaborative way.

Reporting to the Director s/he will be accountable for ensuring resource commitments and project deliverables are met and communicated in a timely manner. Project issues and risks must be identified and tracked and plans to resolve these issues must be developed, actively managed and solutions executed.

Primary Responsibilities

• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.
• Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Clearly identifies project stakeholders and establish customer classes, as well as their characteristics.
• Assists in conducting research on products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
• Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
• Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center.
• Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
• Guides and coaches the IT Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
• Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• Responsible for ensuring Agile is understood and the team adheres to agile theory, practice, and guidelines.
• Works with Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
• Facilitates and supports all agile events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.
  
  

Work Experience

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8-10 years of technology product or project development experience, preferably on an Agile team
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel
• Professional Project Management Certification from accredited intuition preferred
• SCRUM or similar level of certification preferred
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality