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Simplify Compliance Product Manager - EHS in Middleton, Massachusetts
At the heart of Simplify Compliance is our people. People from many different backgrounds with different vantage points, opinions, and experiences. We strive to continually lead with our IMPACT values and empower our employees to develop their full potential on a team that is passionate about acceptance, inclusivity, and achievement. Our employees are the driving force for the innovation, collaboration and creativity that enables our organization to deliver strategic success.
BLR®, a business unit of Simplify Compliance, is a leading corporate training and workflow technology provider with over 40 years of experience, specializing in workplace safety and environmental health, employee learning methodologies, and employment law. We help top US brands distill complex compliance requirements and implement environmental health & safety (EHS) and people management programs with the support of our intuitive software and superior regulatory analysis.
Our comprehensive EHS management software suite is designed by safety engineers to meet the needs of a wide variety of worksites and industries. From digitizing critical documentation to automating follow-up actions based on leading and lagging indicators, our fleet of over 20 interoperable tools helps worksites slash risk, streamline process workflows, and supercharge program performance.
As a Product Manager for BLR’s EHS solutions, you will own, manage, and execute the product roadmap to drive value for our customers. Combining analytical experience, business acumen, and a background in technology or SaaS, you will identify high-impact opportunities to improve this product line through optimization and innovation. You'll work cross-functionally between Marketing, Sales, Content, and Client Success to bring products to market, as well as participate in high-level strategy planning and prioritization.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Define both long-term strategy and short-term plans to achieve the product vision and deliver business results
Assess the needs, opportunities and pain points for our environmental health & safety (EHS) market to enhance relevancy, utility and value proposition for existing service lines, as well as launch new products
Share P&L responsibility for your assigned solutions(s)
Validate and present business cases, pricing strategy and sales model for assigned product lines
Specify product requirements and/or enhancements based on market and competitive research
Communicate regularly with customers and prospects to define and identify information needs
Stay on top of and analyze market trends, segments, size and buyer behavior
Work with marketing and sales to define the go-to-market strategy and articulate a product’s value proposition
Review product performance against expectations and facilitate or influence changes to product, positioning and/or strategy to improve performance
Additional Responsibilities:
Represent your products and services in customer and prospect engagements
Responsible for ensuring customer engagement and satisfaction with product
Travel to conference and events as needed (<20%)
Critical Competencies:
Business Acumen - Demonstrate an understanding of the business strategy and how it impacts their own area, balances short & long-term goals, knows the competition and the industry, and demonstrates leveled understanding of business data and financial reporting
Innovative Thinking - Consistently demonstrates a passion for innovative thinking and idea generation, successfully obtains buy-in from relevant stakeholders, able to navigate the creative process, can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace
Ownership & Execution - Demonstrates a sense of ownership to drive issues to closure, maximizes the use of existing processes while continuously pursuing ways to improve efficiencies, sets aggressive goals, monitors progress, and delivers results, seizes more opportunities than others
Manages Ambiguity & Change - Makes decisions with available information that align with strategy, embraces and manages change, challenges the status quo and champions new initiatives, comfortably handles risk and uncertainty
The Individual:
Proven ability to discern customer needs and envision multiple solutions
Great interpersonal and organizational skills
Ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams
A track record of timely delivery, and meeting or exceeding goals
Ability to communicate, coordinate with, and influence a range of stakeholders including senior management
Ability to drive multiple initiatives simultaneously
Ability to interpret competitive intelligence, industry and market trends, and customer feedback
Ability to translate ideas into strategies, strategies into product plans, and work cross-functionally to launch and execute on product development plans
Qualifications:
BA/BS degree
5 to 7 years product management experience, preferably in a B2B and/or SaaS technology space
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated experience managing change initiatives
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
All external applicants must be legally eligible to immediately work in the country of hire without current or future sponsorship.
If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act or similar law in order to apply for employment at Simplify Compliance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team 1.800.727.5257, ext. 8101.
Job applicants may request to review the company's Affirmative Action plans by contacting the talent acquisition team/recruiter, Human Resources department or Chief People Officer.
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