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