Job Title: Vice President Product Management nufacturing

Requisition Number: 18000041

Location(s): US nneapolis(MN), Carlsbad(CA), Dublin(CA) and willing to consider Bracknell(UK)

Company Overview

Epicor is one of the worldeading software companies, with more than 20,000 customers in over 150 countries using our products to effectively and efficiently automate and streamline their essential business functions. With industry specific solutions for the manufacturing, distribution, retail and service industries, Epicor products allow our customers to focus on core, revenue generating activities. Epicor is privately owned by KKR & Co. and produces approximately $900M in annual revenue with around 4,000 employees.

Role Summary/Purpose:

We are seeking a talented, high-energy VP of Product Management, with experience defining and building out world class Manufacturing & ERP software. Working together with a team of architects and engineers, this leader will drive the development of our products whilst working closely with other technology leaders throughout Epicor, to support the integrated delivery of Manufacturing solutions to our customers.

This is an amazing opportunity to build a leading next gen SaaS solution for the manufacturing sector, managing a complex global portfolio whilst leading a cross functional team across sales, marketing & product to drive growth for your products. As a VP of Product Management, your responsibilities will include understanding customer requirements, creating and executing the product strategy and roadmaps to deliver features that maintain our visionary status. Working with marketing and sales to enable new manufacturing functionality across various global regions and being a product evangelist internally and externally.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the product execution strategy for our flag ship product specializing in manufacturing.
• Lead a global Product Management team already focused on delivery best in class ERP financials, supply chain and MES.
• Partnering with our Cloud Strategy leader and UX Center of Excellence, continuously assess and develop strategies which support both SaaS and On-premises requirements.
• Understanding what great product looks like, create a product roadmap to support our business strategy, go-to-market plans, and customer first mindset.
• Lead our teamnderstanding and utilization of the evolving integration tools, data formats, standards, and technologies for the insertion of our products in the workflow; the gathering, use, and management of patient context from a variety of ERP / Manufacturing systems.
• Support a best in class ecosystem by setting and driving the execution of our API-enabled integration strategy, optimizing our products with partner systems.
• Maintain a customer-focused orientation and drive same within the Product organization.
• Collaborate with technology leaders across business units throughout Epicor to support the integrated delivery of multiple products to mutual customers.
• Maintain and potentially expand a world class product management team by recruiting and developing high performing product leaders that understand the value of People, Product and Process.

Qualifications

Key Attributes:

• Thorough understanding of PM skills, processes, best practices and ability to teach others. 10+ years of software Product Management experience is desired.
• 5+ yearsperience managing people, preferably software Product Managers. Proven ability to manage and grow others.
• Passion for and ability to understand customer needs and deliver great solutions. A track-record for building software that is easy to use with exceptional user experience.
• Excellent strategic thinking and prioritization skills. Ability to create a winning roadmap to achieve business goals while making difficult trade-off decisions.
• Accountable st embody a strong sense of responsibility for the timely completion of tasks, as well as the responsibility to ensure a shared understanding of shared tasks.
• Communicative and social cellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types. Ability to bridge the gap between technical and business stakeholders.
• Assertive t afraid to be a voice of reason and authority. Willing to hold teams accountable to vision and values.
• Enthusiastic st be high-energy and situationally aware. Passionate advocate for delivering value.
• Transparent st desire to bring complete transparency to the business and grow business trust.
• Creativity, initiative, and flexibility mpered by pragmatism, patience, and attention to detail.
• Creative problem-solver th the ability to focus on details while maintaining the pictureew.
• Skilled negotiator who is ability to motivate, persuade and build consensus.

Desired Characteristics:

• Mastern Business or Computer Science preferred (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum 15 years of experience of successful and progressively responsible Product leadership, at least 5 of which at a Director or VP level, for a B2B software company.
• Demonstrated experience developing Manufacturing or ERP SaaS products.
• Strong leader with minimum 10 years of experience in managing, coaching, and leading senior level and mid-level staff including multi-functional teams.
• Demonstrated visionary leader. Ability to develop and cultivate a dynamic, progressive, and technologically advanced organization.
• Demonstrated success attracting, developing, and retaining talented technology professionals.
• Proven track record to drive complex engineering projects to completion on time and on budget. Proven capability of managing multiple priorities effectively and performing under tight deadlines.

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