Project Manager, Transportation Technology Strategy

What you'll do...

Position: Project Manager, Transportation Technology Strategy

Job Location: 311 N Walton Boulevard, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: Analyzes competitive market strategies through analysis of related product, market, or share trends. Analyzes technology trends to identify markets for future product development or to improve sales of existing products. Collects business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources. Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends. Conducts or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs. Creates business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs. Identifies and analyzes industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications. Manages timely flow of business intelligence information to users. Synthesizes current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action. Drives the product discovery process by collaborating with the Business, User Experience, and Engineering Teams during discovery to assess value, usability and feasibility of product features; specifying, prioritizing, and communicating high level and detailed product specifications; and using written specifications, business rules, flows, cases and user experience generated deliverables (for example, prototypes, wireframes, design and copy documents). Develops and champions a product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a specific product within a product area in support of corporate goals and objectives by using customer and market research, customer and user feedback, customer usage, and competitive analysis to identify new product opportunities and enhancements; and working with multiple functions to build and evaluate business cases to support product investment decisions. Supports product implementation and deployment by engaging with Engineering and Project Management during implementation to answer questions and make scope trade off decisions; working closely with Marketing and the business to launch products and ensure their adoption; coordinating postlaunch activities to validate that the product works as designed and that acceptance testing was successful; managing the development of training materials; training and supporting users on new product features; managing close-loop feedback cycles to encompass customer and user comments and needs; and defining, tracking and improving key product metrics.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field plus 2 years of experience in project management or related experience; OR 4 years of experience in project management or related experience.

Skills Required: Must have experience with: Product lifecycle (product strategy, roadmap, discovery, specifications, driving execution and product impact); Managing product roadmap and strategy; Designing digital product features; Supporting product implementation; Conducting user research; Analyzing industry trends and interpreting data/metrics; Setting objectives and key performance indicators; and Creating business intelligence tools. Employer will accept any amount of graduate coursework, graduate research experience or professional experience with the required skills.

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