Product Manager

Gocollate Datalytics - An integrated, simple and powerful platform for all your business needs. GoCollate is a subsidiary of Miconic Technologies. Gocollate understands data. With its wide-range of enhanced features, Gocollate makes capturing the best and most relevant data easy.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• A new technological start up with unique offering in great demand seeks a dynamic Product Manager who has strong experience with SaaS.
• This role would also suit someone coming from events management or direct marketing activation background.
• The company's product offers huge competitive advantages, improved efficiency in market research, data capture and sales team productivity.

Accountabilities
Product Manager will be accountable for:

• Develop the strategy and roadmap with the CEO and bring the product vision to life
• Understand and capture the user and customer requirements, needs and desires and translate them into effective product improvements and new releases.
• Ensure the products deliver functionally and have features that exceed customer expectation and user experience.
• Ensure the products deliver value in terms of revenue and ROI.
• Keeps marketing team up to date on functionality and future enhancements to products and provides relevant sales materials.
• Support the sales and marketing functions in promoting the products at events and user groups.
• Understands the significance of industry trends and new technologies and completes qualitative assessment of competitors and their capabilities.
• Ensure that all employees in a variety of sales, marketing and services roles are properly enabled to present products effectively in the market place and subsequently help drive revenue.
• Works with marketing and support teams to ensure that consumers get adequate support and proper communication to drive satisfaction and usage.
• Works with the CEO to identify market opportunities to create opportunities for existing products.
• Prepares relevant documentation and hands over new product/feature to support, implementation, and marketing team.
• Follow up on development efforts & user acceptance testing.
• Maintains repository of updated product documentation (product papers, case studies, revenue analysis, technical architecture, operational documents, competitive analysis, and product roadmap.
• Design and conduct industry specific market research and customer surveys.
• Attend seminars, trade shows, events & other marketing initiatives to demonstrate technical specification of products.
• Develop training manuals and product specification documents and organise in-house and external training for staff and customers.
• Organise and execute quarterly internal focus group strategy sessions for products

Job Requirements

• A good Degree in Computer Science or Social Sciences
• At least 3-4 years’ experience in event’s management and direct marketing activation. Essential to have conceptual sales experience where a client is educated.
• Experience in Project Management, Software / IT or Solutions (SaaS, Cloud, Intranet Software CRM etc)
• Strong relationship building skills, both internal and external
• Candidates should have a good understanding of business processes.
• Good sales track record in selling software SaaS, understanding processes, finding problems and opening the door for the technical support team to provide solutions.
• Able to manage multiple projects and clients at the same time
• Good consultative sales skills essential
• Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure
• Results oriented, Resourceful and highly motivated
• Having worked with a digital/ marketing agency would be advantageous
• Clear communicator, written and verbal.
• Ideally with some formal sales training