Sr. Lead - Product Management

Job Purpose

Product Manager (PM) is responsible for implementing solutions in the form of products and product features, to address customer needs and pain points. The PM is responsible for creating user stories for describing solutions, for executing User Acceptance testing and also oversees the planning, development and implementation of the product.

Job Context & Major Challenges

UltraTech Cement is the largest Cement manufacturer in the country, with pan India presence and individual market leadership as well. The brand represents expert offerings in its products. The product offerings of UltraTech include grey cement sub-brands under the umbrella brand name, building products, ready mix concrete and construction based retail stores under the brand name UltraTech Building Solutions. So far, the offerings of UltraTech Cement have been cement or construction based.

The next step in the strategic journey for UltraTech is to upgrade from a material provider to a solutions provider and become future-ready in terms of going digital and achieving scale via continuous innovation. In line with this direction, UltraTech Cement is set to launch multiple digital offerings for meeting the following objectives –

• Acquire Home Builders as soon as they start thinking about building a home to maximize Customer Lifetime Value by providing them with end-to-end solutions throughout their home building journey
• Create a stronger association with Influencers / service providers by providing them with a compelling value proposition to increase their business
• Grow UltraTech's brand recall and overall trade volumes with accurate conversion attributions to enable strategic decision making for sustained growth
• Multiply the impact of Technical Services team by enabling them to operate at scale via various digital initiatives
• Grow other UltraTech businesses such as UBS, BW, BPD, RMC significantly via business transformation

The major challenges to achieve the above objectives would be -

Internal Challenges

External Challenges

The Product Management function is inherently designed to tackle these challenges and is primarily responsible for creating the product vision, strategy, and providing direction for development, implementation and adoption of products to maximize customer experience and business growth.

Key Result Areas

KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters) Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)

KRA1 User Interaction Interact with end users for -

KRA2 Solutioning 1) Maintain your product backlog and prioritize product backlog items via discussion with relevant stakeholders

KRA3 On-time and excellent quality delivery 1) Work closely with Dev team to ensure on-time and excellent quality delivery

KRA4 Success Metrics 1) Create metrics and KPIs for product modules to measure success, in agreement with relevant stakeholders

KRA5 Collaboration Collaboration with other teams (Marketing, Category, Zonal Ops, Operations, other external teams)

KRA6 Learn, Coach & Improve 1) Learn new concepts / new business models / new processes / new product features and present in the Open Innovation forum

Skills Required

User Acceptance Testing, User Stories