wanted: Director of Product Management

Director of Product Management

A major Electronic Commerce Company, located in NYC, is seeking a Director of Product Management - EDI. This individual works on global, virtual teams to craft and define new product functionality as well as supporting the marketing, implementation and deployment phases of these new products. This high visibility role provides an opportunity to interact with customers, partners, and internal teams to lead new product initiatives and drive product roadmap. The ideal candidate is a strong customer and partner advocate who understands supply chain in the apparel, footwear and retail space. The ideal candidate is a strong customer and partner advocate who understands EDI/messaging and trading relationships in the apparel, footwear and retailer space.

The Product Manager will be responsible for the following:

• Gathering and prioritizing customer's product requirements, the product vision, driving product planning and working closely with stakeholders in tech nology, product design, and marketing to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met
• Provide subject matter expertise in areas including EDI, XML, and system integration to the Product Design Team on core system enhancements
• Research industry XML and EDI best practices and design updates to the messaging API
• Provide competitive analysis for market requirement documents and launch plans
• Ensure product supports the overall strategy and goals
• Translate marketing requirements and product roadmaps into product specification and implementation plans
• Conduct regular collaborative product reviews with senior management
• Provide knowledge transfer training sessions to key shareholder groups' 'train the trainer' concept
• Work with partner companied where applicable to deliver value added software or services
• Support baseline customer and marketing communications documents for roll-out activities

Ideal Director of Product Management candidates will possess the following background and experience:

• 5+ years of product planning and management and project management experience in a high tech environment
• Extensive experience in messaging design using known business messaging standards including EDI (X12 and EDIFACT) and XML
• Working knowledge of Software as a Service (SaaS) design
• Experience in the apparel, footwear, and retail industries if possible
• Supply Chain experience is a plus
• Strong communication skills required
• Effective problem solving abilities
• Minimum 10 years of experience
• Experience with virtual teams
• A Bachelor's Degree is required; an MBA is preferred

This person does not necessarily need to come out of an EDI Company but a lot of work with EDI (EDI consulting) will need to be done. Understand everything about EDI (what data is used; what it does, et c.). There will not be much travel. NO HEALTHCARE EDI EXPERIENCE is required. Retail experience (apparel, footwear, etc.) is strongly preferred.