Vacancy for Chief Product and Operations Executive at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners
Employment Nigeria
07-Oct-2017
LAGOS ,
Administrative
Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners a business advisory and market intelligence services firm is recruiting to fill the position below:
POSITION : Chief Product and Operations Executive
Responsibilities
- Develops strategies to increase revenue and performs cost-benefit analysis and return-on-investment analysis.
- Manage profit and loss account of products and relevant Strategic Business Units.
- Track and report progress and performance of marketing projects and recommend improvements.
- Develop and implement product strategies consistent with company vision.
- Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products.
- Work with senior management to create product strategy and roadmaps.
- Responsible for providing leadership in all activities related to the development and delivery of the company's technology from software design, software development, quality assurance, release, enhancement, and implementation.
- Define product development directions (features, user experience, application flow and optimizations) and drive ongoing product initiatives in close collaboration with the development team.
- Monitor market trends, analyze competitive products and activities; find, communicate and leverage relevant benchmarks (including business models) outside of the core market.
- Build and execute marketing plans and promotional activities to drive traffic and increase brand awareness and sales.
- Present and champion the product vision within the organization and coordinate the execution of the marketing plans with the various stakeholders and departments.
- Lead product managers and coordinate cross-functional teams.
- Ensure products and releases are launched correctly and on schedule.
- Make creative recommendations to expand product base and vision.
Key Performance Deliverables
- Employee satisfaction and motivation
- Development of staff e.g. Goals completed, performance reviews completed etc
- Functionality and performance of the system and applications
- Budget management as well as technology cost
- Developer Productivity
- Cycle time excellence and on-time product delivery to market
- Quality of Service and customer satisfaction
- Retention and recruiting
- Responsiveness e.g. to technology advances, consumer behavior trends
- Achievement of overall corporate goals
Requirements
- Prior senior level management experience is required
- Experience in product lifecycle management and software development
- B.Sc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field
- 10-15 years relevant experience is required
Skills:
- Strong analytical and data manipulation skills.
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
- Ability to adapt to a changing business and market place.
- Ability think creatively and exploit business opportunities
- Methodical and detail conscious.
- Strong delivery and proven execution skills.
- Strong organizational change management skills.
- Strong team management skills.
- Ability to think strategically whilst achieving results in immediate area of responsibility.
- Excellent communicator able to communicate at all levels and adopt a flexible and consultative approach.
- Commercially astute.
- Problem-solving aptitude.
Competency
Role Expertise:
- Demonstrates critical technical or professional knowledge/skills related to the role.
- Has thorough knowledge of relevant products, services and methods.
- Expands technical knowledge/skills and keeps up-to-date in own area of expertise.
Planning and Objective Setting:
- Systematic in approach to work.
- Produces action plans in which objectives are defined and steps for achieving them are clearly specified.
- Plans by breaking down large task into subtasks.
- Develops plans that anticipate obstacles. Is realistic about time-scales and builds in appropriate checkpoints, milestones and controls in order to ensure that desired results are realized.
Team Skills:
- Helps to create a sense of team spirit and harmonious relations through cooperation and support.
- Balances personal goals with those of the team.
- Fosters collaboration among team members
People Management:
- Establishes and communicates clear priorities and sense of direction.
- Clarifies roles and responsibilities.
- Adapts management style to achieve optimum results.
Developing and Coaching Others:
- Accurately assesses strengths and development needs of employees.
- Adjusts coaching style based on each employee's ability and motivation level.
- Challenges others to improve their abilities and actively supports their development.
- Continually provides timely and constructive feedback, coaching and challenging learning opportunities
Customer/Client Orientation:
- Strives to provide customers/clients with personalized and efficient service.
- Anticipates customers'/clients' needs.
- Quickly follows up on customer/client contacts and complaints.
- Monitors and acts on measures of customer/client satisfaction.
Industry and Market Awareness:
- Seeks to anticipate and respond to industry and market changes/challenges by understanding key characteristics, issues and the factors driving them.
- Aware of competitor's products, services and position.
How To Apply
Candidates should send their CV's to:contact@gvapartners.com with position applied for as the subject
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