Senior Product Manager

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software® provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-replenishment platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes.
Centric delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.
- Centric PLM™ the leading PLM solution for consumer goods, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity.
- Centric Planning™ is an innovative, cloud-native, AI solution delivering end-to-end planning capabilities to maximize retail and wholesale business performance resulting in a 110% increase in margin.
- Centric Pricing & Inventory™ leverages AI to drive margins and boost revenues by up to 18% via price and inventory optimization from pre-season to in-season to season completion.
- Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-driven, market insight platform for data-informed decision-making on competitor offers and pricing as well as consumer trends and buying behavior.
- Centric Visual Boards™ pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers.
Centric Software is widely known for its connectivity to dozens of other enterprise systems, including ERP, DAM, PIM, e-com, and more, in addition to creative tools such as Adobe® Illustrator, a host of 3D CAD connectors and sustainability tools, such as Worldy.
Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition appears regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.
Job Description
Senior Product Manager – Cosmetics & Personal Care
Location
Remote USA/Canada East Coast
Salary Range
$150,000 - $190,000+ benefits
Job Summary
We are looking for Senior Product Managers to join our rapidly growing team! This is a hands-on position across the following key areas: product development, product management, technology partnerships/ analyst relations, client services, and product marketing. At Centric we put our customers first and want to continue building products that our users love.
Centric Software, as the industry leader for Enterprise PLM in the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) market, is rapidly growing in the exciting segment targeting Cosmetics & Personal Care (CPC) companies. The successful candidate will be part of the organization driving the requirements necessary to grow Centric into being the PLM leader for this market. To qualify you should have proven expertise with demonstrated work experience in CPC industries relative to specific, general, and modern CPC processes, business scenarios, and domain models. The ideal candidate will be energized by the opportunity to pioneer innovative ideas and solutions in Enterprise PLM by leveraging Centric's powerful PLM platform.
This position will report to the Director Product Manager – Formulated Products
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the product vision and direction for CPC features in our enterprise PLM Solution
- Work in a cross-functional and collaborative role spanning several teams such as product, design, engineering, and marketing
- Collaborate with UX designers and engineers to reach the best possible version of a feature or product to bring to market
- Prioritize development activities with engineering teams, work closely with QA on acceptance testing, and lead product launches
- Manage customer preview programs and engage in frequent conversations with customers both onsite and in the customer office to understand their needs, gather feedback, and overall ensure that product direction is in tune with customer needs
- Partner with Client Services to create new service offerings, lead training and build marketing collateral
- Work with and collaborate with several technology and business partners
Qualifications
- Proven expertise and demonstrated capabilities in CPC and CPC-related industries relative to specific and general PLM processes, scenarios, domain models, solution patterns and adoption, and change management considerations.
- Deep understanding of CPC-specific needs, especially in product development, regulatory compliance, and formulation.
- Proven experience and skills in domain modeling and analysis and a good understanding of CPC industry pain points, best practices, system integration requirements, and adoption/ change management enablers to accelerate PLM adoption in this field.
- Pragmatic Agile product management best practices and the ability to creatively model requirements, and map solution designs with consideration for pragmatic refactoring and incremental enhancements.
- Ability to abstract with meta modeling/problem-solving experience relative to the design of configuration points based on common implementation patterns in support of common CPC process and information management practices.
- 10+ years of overall experience (at least 5+ as a product manager or product owner) in a fast-paced environment, preferably in SaaS or Enterprise software
- The ability to understand the breadth of our offering and product line as well as the technical ability to drill into details on owned areas
- Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills
- Ability to quickly understand, simplify, internalize, and communicate complex business or technical requirements
- Emphasis on user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement
- Ability to thrive in the dynamic environment that comes with being part of an innovative company. That means flexibility as well as dealing with ambiguity
You must be prepared to present a portfolio highlighting your recent work.
Traits we value
- Ability to quickly understand, simplify, internalize, and communicate complex business or technical requirements
- Emphasis on user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally across the company
- Demonstrated ability to deliver solutions to existing customer segments and rapidly expand to new customer segments
- Ability to thrive in the dynamic environment that comes with being part of an innovative company.
- Ability to develop multi-level relationships of confidence and trust with customers and cross-functional colleagues.
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly evolving technology and commercial environment.
- Ability to resolve problems, clarify situations, and create a way forward.
- Results-oriented and motivated to deliver value.
- Ability to go deep in problem-solving and analytical solution mapping.
- Proven ability to work with geographically distributed teams.
- Team player, ready to contribute to the A team!
"The US base salary range for this full-time position is $150-190K base + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range for each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Candidates who exceed the specified experience and relevant education or training may be considered for compensation above the stated range. Please note that the compensation details listed reflect base salary, and certain positions may be offered additional variable incentives."
Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.