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Sr. Product Manager - Intuit, Mountain View, CA. Jan. 28, 2010
Sr. Product Manager - Data Driven Offerings (Intuit, Mountain View, CA)
Intuit is a leading software provider of business and financial
management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and
accounting professionals. You probably know us by our flagship
products, QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, but that's
just the start. We are currently going through a fundamental
transformation from a shrink-wrapped software company to one of the
country's leading providers of web-based applications and solutions.
The Data-driven Offering Innovation team is a central group that
accelerates Intuit’s strategic use of data in customer-facing
products, through innovation and partnership with product teams across
the company. This forward-looking group is seeking a Senior Product
Manager to stimulate and drive the launch of successful, data-driven
products. If you are passionate about designing and managing
world-class web products that leverage data and analytics to delight
customers, this is a fantastic opportunity to apply your creativity and
product skills. In this role, your responsibilities will include the
following:
Primary Responsibilities:
• Lead, innovate, and define products and strategies that
capitalize on Intuit's unique data advantages, leveraging both internal
and external data sources.
• Evangelize opportunities, data assets, data-driven product concepts, and prototypes at all levels of the organization.
• Understand and synthesize customer needs from market research, analytics, and internal business partnerships.
• Design and provide requirements for new data-driven products or
product features, including products that require advanced data
techniques such as optimization, personalization, forecasting, and
inference algorithms.
• Partner and collaborate with business, product management, and
engineering teams to plan, design, build, test, and launch data-driven
products.
• Quantify and evaluate business impact of data-driven products through key metrics.
• Manage communications and expectations with internal stakeholders and leadership teams.
Qualifications:
• MBA or advanced technical degree (Statistics, Mathematics, Data Mining, Operations Research, etc.).
• 4+ years of product management experience, with solid track record of launching successful products.
• Prior experience developing, designing, or managing data-driven
applications or products (such as BI, personalization, targeting).
• Comfort in examining, querying, and manipulating data.
• Exposure to analytics, modeling, statistics, machine learning, or data mining.
• Exceptional business judgment, creativity, and leadership skills in identifying and evangelizing opportunities.
• Passion for delighting customers and driving business impact and growth.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
Ability to simplify, articulate, and drive vision/opportunities up,
down, and across the company.
• Habit of conducting business in a candid, direct, and non-political manner.
• Team spirit and ability to collaborate with cross-functional
teams (Product Management, Engineering, Finance, Marketing, etc.) as
well as aggressively execute independently.
• Reputation for unquestioned integrity and a highly developed sense of ethics.
To apply on-line:
http://www.intuit.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=68890
VP – Operational Excellence, Ohio. Jan. 28, 2010
Company: Confidential
Position: VP – Operational Excellence
Location: Ohio
Reporting: SVP - Operations
Compensation: Excellent Base Compensation
Bonus: Excellent Bonus Available
Relocation: Relocation Available
Company Profile:
Our exclusive client is a multi-billion insurance industry leader
seeking to gain a further competitive advantage by leveraging Lean Six
Sigma as a key part of their corporate strategy.
Position Description and Responsibilities:
This is a key change agent leadership position, reporting directly to
the SVP Operations. This position will require an experienced Lean Six
Sigma leader with broad business acumen, preferably with service /
transactional industry background and experience. This position
requires a leader that is able to facilitate and drive change in a fast
paced and “ever changing” environment leveraging his/her
strong interpersonal skills. Key to success in this position is the
ability to work within the organization at all levels creating value
and buy-in as the lead change facilitator driving the entire
company’s Lean Six Sigma transformation.
* This position will be responsible for managing and
facilitating the entire company’s Lean Six Sigma (with emphasis
on Lean and Transactional in focus) initiative and strategy.
* This position will provide leadership / mentoring
/ training to all levels of the organization on the use and practice of
Lean Six Sigma methodology and tools.
* Partner with senior level management at the
highest levels to assess current processes and identify process
improvement opportunities. Manage the process of selecting, scoping and
prioritizing Lean Six Sigma projects including review of resource
utilization across the business.
* Identify and engage talented candidates to become
Lean Six Sigma practitioners as Master Black Belts, Black Belts and
Green Belts. Develop and implement a corporate wide Lean Six Sigma
training program.
* This position will have responsibility for
planning and assisting in the execution of various Lean Six Sigma
transformation events and projects targeted towards improving the
business’s performance
* This position will deliver significant and
quantifiable process improvement and financial benefit across the
organization.
* Lead by example as an active change agent by
managing complex projects and leverage influencing skills that come
from deep experience as a subject matter expert in Lean and Six Sigma
* This position will focus on business performance
that constantly strives to eliminate waste, improve customer
satisfaction, and increase market share via the use of Lean Six Sigma
tools and continuous improvement methodologies.
* This position will act as a key driver of change
within the business, supporting management/cross functional decisions
by communicating the enterprise-wide changes to employees and helping
them to learn, understand, adjust and grow with the business’s
Lean Six Sigma transformation.
* Manage Lean Six Sigma reporting activities for the organization internally and to Corporate.
* Develop and manage annual financial benefit and cost budgets.
Position Critical to Quality + Success (CTQ+S): Technical Behavioral Requirements:
* BS Degree, MBA a plus
* 10-15 years professional work experience with a
minimum of 7 years management experience, with at least 4 years
experience leading and executing process improvement projects in a
dedicated Lean Six Sigma position.
* Six Sigma Master Black Belt / Black Belt Certification and/or Lean Sensei
* Formal Lean training and experience with Value
Stream Management tools, kaizen methods and other key Lean tools and
methodologies.
* Transactional Lean Six Sigma deployment leadership experience / background is a must
Position Critical to Quality + Success (CTQ+S): Skill/Ability Behavioral Requirements:
* Results based Leadership style skill set with strong impact and influencing skills
* Tenacity and energy in leading change towards an effective work environment.
* Ability to communicate effectively to direct and
motivate team and others, maintaining a persuasive and credible
presentation style at all levels of the organization.
* Strong analytical skills and process focus
* Strong influencing skills and credibility to
interact at all levels – including c-suite level leadership
* Progressive, flexible and team oriented person required.
http://leansixsigmajobs.blogspot.com/2009/12/vp-operational-excellence-ohio.html
Manager, Business Analytics - Morristown, NJ. Jan. 28, 2010
Manager, Business Analytics - Morristown, New Jersey
The Manager, Business Analytics structures, executes and presents key
strategic analyses in conjunction with business units. The role is
similar to that of an internal consultant, where species business units
are the clients.
Activities cover a broad range of business issues, including strategic
questions pertaining to product, marketing, program and promotion
analysis and sales effectiveness. The incumbent will work closely with
Marketing and Sales Management to understand business needs, translate
business needs into analytic requirements, develop an actionable plan,
acquire and analyze appropriate data, interpret results and present
findings and recommendations.
WORK EXPERIENCE/SKILLS
-Bachelor’s degree required, Masters degree strongly preferred,
in quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, or
related
-Minimum 7 years related experience with marketing analytics, financial analysis and/or sales analytics
-Superior analytic skills and ability to synthesize a large quantity of
data into actionable conclusions and recommendations. Excellent
analytic SQL skills working with large data sets are a must.
- Strong background in development and use of analytical techniques,
including: segmentation, modeling, data mining, and ROI analysis
- Power user of MS Excel, Access and other PC tools. Significant
experience with reporting and data visualization tools such as Oracle,
Cognos, Tableau, Business Objects etc.
- Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills. Experience presenting to and influencing senior level executives.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and work in a collaborative problem-solving environment.
Please forward resumes to: tfeller@norellgroup.com
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