Senior Director Product Management Consumer Products

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations achieve their future, digitally enabled state, both in how they work and serve their customers. We unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, combining strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and creative problem-solving. With over 20,000 employees across 53 offices worldwide, our team brings expertise in technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses by designing products and services that customers truly value.

Job Description

As a Director of Product Management for Consumer Products at Publicis Sapient, you will serve as a trusted advisor to clients, leading the overall business solution, vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for digital products within an engagement. You will work with clients in the Consumer Products industry on major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) initiatives, understanding their business and customer needs to deliver continuous value through rapid development cycles.

Responsibilities

Your Impact:

1. Partner with clients, strategists, experience leads, and enterprise architects to define business goals and value streams, shaping solution propositions that deliver transformative outcomes and enhanced customer experiences.
2. Develop a comprehensive solution vision aligned with product strategy and industry standards, keeping customer needs at the forefront and utilizing design thinking tools.
3. Represent the client in solution workshops with cross-functional leaders to identify new solutions, organizational needs, and options.
4. Create solution hypotheses based on user research, industry, and market trend analysis.
5. Translate the solution vision into a product roadmap with prioritized features to realize value.
6. Present business cases to C-level executives and lead reviews to ensure feature prioritization aligns with business goals.
7. Act as the voice of the customer within cross-functional teams, advocating for customer needs.
8. Establish clear success metrics, KPIs, and business outcomes for the product.
9. Apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks effectively.
10. Collaborate with other product and solution managers to align on program objectives.
11. Work with enterprise architects to prioritize capability enablers.
12. Stay informed on industry best practices and market trends to help clients maintain a competitive edge.
13. Build and maintain trusted relationships with clients, teams, and vendors, influencing without authority.
14. Lead and mentor a high-performing team of Product Analysts to develop best-in-class digital products and services.

Qualifications

Extensive experience in B2C and B2B consumer goods, from consulting or in-house roles with leading manufacturers. Deep understanding of Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles. Proven success in creating large solutions, digital product vision, strategy, and operational quality. Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and leading Program Increment cycles. Skilled in stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, financial modeling, and data-driven decision-making. Demonstrated ability to lead change and inspire teams.

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Deep knowledge of industry success factors, trends, and business models in consumer goods.
• Relevant certifications such as SAFe, PMP, or IPMA.

Additional Information

A tip from the Hiring Manager: A successful Director of Product Management at Publicis Sapient combines leadership rooted in customer centricity with tactical product management skills. This role involves managing multiple program increments every 10-12 weeks or as per the client's cadence.