Assistant Product Manger

The Junior Product Manager is generally responsible for researching, understanding, and finally communicating the needs of the consumers to the product manager and eventually throughout the entire business. This communication finds its importance especially with the product engineering team who will use it to enhance and improve the product.

• The Junior Product Manager works with Product Engineers as well as other Product Managers to produce well-written recommendations, preferably in narrative form. Working with product teams, the Junior Product Manager develops an intimate understanding of the consumer base and what is important to them. He then uses this knowledge to identify opportunities for the business’s product.

Objectives and Responsibilities of Junior Product Manager

Product Analysis: The junior Product Manager is responsible for analyzing market trends and sales performance to avail informed recommendations for the product. The Junior Product Manager also analyses competitor activity to provide the business’s product with a competitive edge over the competition. In this capacity, the Junior Product Manager also develops product stories and points of sale for the product.

Strategic Roadmap Contribution: The Junior Product Manager works to define product enhancements and strategies. He is also responsible for reporting on the product’s roadmap to the senior product manager.

Collaboration: The Junior Product Manager also must collaborate with senior product managers in maintaining plan integration and ensuring the overall achievement of product objectives. The Junior Product Manager works within the product management team as well as other product teams in determining product vision, positioning, and direction.

Product Lifecycle Management: The Junior Product Manager is responsible for the identification of new opportunities, service improvements, and cost reductions. In addition, the Junior Product Manager contributes to the determination of pricing and profitability of the product, inclusive of the approval of special pricing where necessary.

Supports Sales and Marketing Activities: The Junior Product Manager aligns product launch activities with marketing activities. This is achieved through the furnishing of the sales team with competitor analysis, market analysis, business performance analysis, and other research information. In this capacity, he also ensures that the product literature is accurate and relevant.

Other Duties: Being answerable to the senior product manager, the Junior Product adopts other roles as assigned by his seniors or any other Employer representative.

• Bachelor’s Degree in an analytical field (information technology, engineering, marketing, business or economics) or equivalent experience
• Must be a proven relationship manager
• Prior experience with roles requiring high level of attention to detail and customer oriented is highly regarded
• A genuine keenness and interest in new educational technologies is preferred
• Ability to study market trends and formulate strategies to market
• 2-3 years of experience in an analytical role (ideal backgrounds include: a similar research and prospecting role in educational sector, a data-based consulting role, or other data strategy type positions).
• A self-starter who is passionate about uncovering opportunities, qualifying business and deadlines.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work with large dataset and summarize findings in a clear format.
• Combine creative and pragmatic use of insight and data with attention to detail.
• Strong mathematical skills to analyze reports including conversion rates, business won and lost and return on investment formulas.
• Proven experience successfully working on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office software products, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word and ability to quickly learn industry related software.
• English language fluency is a must.
• Experience with statistical packages such as SAS, R, SPSS, etc. a plus
• Experience troubleshooting both hardware and software issues.
• Demonstrated ability to convey a sense of urgency, openness to new ideas, inclusion & diversity, integrity, customer focus, and respect.