Product Manager - Cosmetic Vertical
About Us:
- In March 2022, Trace One acquired Selerant and its subsidiary Beolink. Since the acquisition, Beolink Doo Belgrade acts as a development hub for both companies, Trace One and Selerant.
- Our combined company has strengthened its global position in the PLM market for consumer-packaged goods (CPG) by reaching more geographies and integrating further solutions and assets to better serve our customers worldwide.
- Together, Trace One and Selerant offer the global leading end-to-end PLM and compliance solutions that transform the CPG industry. With more than 30 years of experience in new product development, packaging and formulation management, we supply a single, collaborative platform for process manufacturers and retailers—from raw ingredient suppliers and boutique brands to global CPG giants and blue-chip retailers.
- We help businesses connect, comply, and create remarkable products that empower consumers and shape the world. Our extending global community of 6,000+ brand owners spans more than 170 countries and produces over $500Bn in revenue each year.
- Some of our global references are Carrefour, Mark & Spencer, El Corte Inglès, Auchan, Ahold, Sainsbury, McCormick, Mars Wrigley, Nestle.
- The technologies used include Google cloud, Microsoft .Net, .Net core, React, Docker, Kubernetes, SQl Server, Raven DB and Rabbit-MQ.
www.traceone.com/
Selerant PLM and Compliance Solutions
Come Join Selerant/Traceone Family
We are on a path to innovation, creating an end to end cloud-based solution, based ona platform that will transform the way people manage products. We invite you to come and be part of our transformation as we transition our current offering into a world class platform that we will be architecting and building together.
We embrace agile principles and values with autonomous empowered teams, rapid release cycles and a continuous improvement mindset.
Welcome and be part of a vibrant, competent, and dynamic multicultural team and begin an exciting career journey with the Selerant/Traceone team. Take a glimpse at corporate life in video “What makes you like Trace One so much?“ by clicking on the following link on our LinkedIn page.
Role Summary
- Located in Selerant’s Product & Solutions Management for Manufacturers Group (PSM), the Cosmetic
- Market Product Manager will effectively own, manage and represent their designated product / solution offering(s) to achieve best-in-market products and solutions that delight our internal and external customers and stakeholders.
- Overall, the Product Manager is accountable for the Cosmetic market and commercial success of the holistic product, (core product, all supporting services and add-ons etc.) necessary to achieve this success.
Key Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of a Product Manager include, but not limited to, the following:
- Become the Subject Matter Expert for allocated reference market(s) and provide expertise and leadership for relevant product/ solution(s), representing the “voice of the customer” for inmarket usage by our clients.
- Define and implement the Product Vision, Product Strategy and Roadmap for his/her specific Product / Solution(s), utilizing best practice Product Management methodologies. This defines a holistic approach including all market, commercialization and technical aspects of the in-scope Product / Solution(s).
- Work collectively with all cross-functional representatives and stakeholders to ensure that the Core Update & Release Strategies are aligned to the needs of the Product Portfolio on an ongoing basis.
- Define the list of packaged plans of application support services and levels which are both applicable to the entire portfolio or specific to one application.
- Collaborate with other Product Managers to resolve any issues of overlap and/or gaps across the overall Portfolio. Working together, assure consistency and completeness of the overall Portfolio across all market solutions; how the solutions are differentiated from each other and how they fit together from a market/business perspective.
- Collaborate with the Selerant Board, Sales and Marketing to define product financial plans and the most appropriate commercialization strategies and go-to-market processes to achieve these plans.
- This should include a rolling 3 year Financial / P&L Model for each Solution.
- Collaborate with Sales, Marketing and relevant technical functions to develop business cases to support new innovation proposals, feature extensions etc., related to their product / solutions(s).
- Working collectively to define robust Product Governance models and processes for managing at both the individual Solution and overall Portfolio levels, and agree with all identified stakeholders.
- Working in conjunction with Sales & Marketing teams, assist in the development of all product related Sales & Marketing collateral.
- Undertake comprehensive market and competitor analyses from a market and technical perspective to understand the strengths and weaknesses of competitive product offerings and identify commercial opportunities for Selerant.
- Prepare, maintain, and evangelize high-level product roadmap(s) which define enhancements for short- and long-term MVP-based releases.
- Represent the market/business perspective within the product innovation life cycle from strategic planning from ideation, through definition, build and testing to the release process.
- Set priorities and manage the specific product backlog within the context of the overall strategic roadmap, aligned to Company objectives.
- Accountable for the approval of all business and functional requirements documentation, based on robust market needs and use cases, created by the Product Delivery team(s), collaborating in particular with Product Owners and Business Analysts.
- Provide leadership and co-ordination for the processes and activities of cross-functional teams working on the innovation and/or industry solution to help assure on-time delivery of products to high standards of quality.
- Monitor and analyse new technologies and collaborate with Engineering to assess their potential applications to Selerant’s product portfolio.
- Provide appropriate Pre-Sales support for global Selerant Sales and PS teams, defining appropriate product / solution(s) that will contribute to the successful conversion of prospects to clients.
Reporting & Collaboration Lines
This role reports to Director of Product and Solutions Management for Manufacturers
Cross-functional Collaboration Matrix
- Board level (CEO, CPO, CTO etc)
- Market Solution Managers
- Product Marketing Managers
- Product Owners
- Technical Project Managers
- Project Delivery teams – BAs, DEV/UI/UX engineers, QA, technical writers
- Resource Managers
- Global Sales / Pre-sales teams
- Global Marketing team
- Professional Services teams
Requirements
- English – Fluent – mandatory
- Previous working experience in IT industry and familiarity with software development life cycle - mandatory
- Previous exposure to PLM is a plus
- Domain knowledge about cosmetic market is a plus
What we offer:
- Great Life/Work balance – because with us life always comes first
- Hybrid work model – feel free to work 4 days a week from your happy place and once a week come join us and practice your table tennis skills in breaks between work
- Yes, you’ve read it right! We have a game room with table tennis and latest gaming consoles
- If you want to check your physical fitness before engaging in some serious table tennis activities, you have private health insurance at your disposal
- We understand that being a morning person is not the universal trait, so we offer flexible start of the day
- In case you want to keep that promise you gave to yourself about starting working out from next Monday, we offer you FitPass card
- Our offices are in Novi Beograd close to the river where you could unwind after working hours
- Yearly team building weekend getaways in our lovely Serbia
- We can promise great learning opportunities in our young but experienced team
We look forward to receiving your application.Selerant / Trace One thanks all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.