Product Development Manager

**Company Description**
Experian plc is an Anglo-Irish multinational consumer credit reporting company.

Experian collects and aggregates information on over 1 billion people and businesses, including 235 million individual US consumers and more than 25 million US businesses.

We operate in 37 countries with offices in the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil.

We employ approximately 17,000 colleagues, and last fiscal year, our year-end revenue was US$5.18 billion.

Our product proposition covers credit services, Decision Analytics and marketing assistance to businesses, including individual fingerprinting and targeting.
**Job Description** Job Purpose**

Product Development Manager manages and coordinates product development projects. Evaluates and resolves technical feasibility, design optimization, and production issues.

Being a Product Development Manager enables the team to perform optimally (such as: reviewing the SDLC, managing stakeholder expectations, managing project deliverables and due dates, resource allocation, taking business needs into account, manage HR needs/component within the team, etc.) whilst still overseeing business analysis documentation to ensure the company objectives are met.

**Qualifications** Required qualifications and experience**
- Relevant Qualification (e.g. Diploma, degree etc.)
- Excellent understanding of Product Development methodologies.
- Excellent understanding of Different phases in Project lifecycle.
- Understanding of Project Management methodologies.
- High Level of Emotional Intelligence must be display.
- Extensive experience in working/managing development teams.
- Extensive experience in managing tier 1 clients and technical teams.
- Extensive experience in facilitating client integration.
- Extensive experience in working under pressure and achieving deadlines.
- Extensive experience in software development delivery
- Excellent time management skills.
- Excellent documentation and writing skills.
- Previous working knowledge of Experian integration services advantageous

**Additional Information** Principle Responsibility**
- Guide, coach and mentor software development team members.
- Provide project management and technical leadership for every aspect of software.
- Prepare lifecycle for different projects inclusive of research, development, design, evaluation, testing along with delivery to product management.
- Supervise architecture plus lead efforts to develop technical roadmap of all projects with assistance from the Technical Team Leader.
- Establish and stimulate software development standards and processes along with best practices for delivery of scalable and high-quality software.
- Perform closely with Engineers, Developers and Product Management throughout organization to influence product development assisting or improving products.
- Develop relations with existing and prospective internal customers to interpret all individual requirements.
- Learn and display as how products would add value to respective business.
- Prepares a cost analysis on the development of a new product.
- Ensure top quality design reviews attaining business goals.
- Supervise resource allocation to assure attainment of business and personnel development goals.
- Involve in strategic plans to accomplish technical as well as business with leadership chain, team and with customers.
- Manage and execute software development projects from beginning to finish.
- Evaluate projects, develop and update schedules plus supervise project status.
- Collaborate effectively with all team members as well as hold regular team meetings.
- Makes adjustments to a development plan whenever the current idea is not working well.
- Keeps up to date with changes in the market and technology that would affect new product development.

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