Senior Product Manager - Intelligence in Newcastle upon Tyne

Location: UK Wide or Amsterdam

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Enterprise Decision Analytics (EDA) Product Manager is accountable for the strategic direction, roadmap and market success for our EDA product. They will drive the growth and adoption of the product. They work closely with our customers and internal teams to understand market opportunities, pain points and potential value. They validate these with our customers and stakeholders, ensuring that the plans will convert into reality. They collaborate closely with our Product Owners and Technical Team Leads to jointly build the solutions and roadmap, forming a market-facing plan. They also work with our sales, marketing, customer experience and industry teams to shape an organisation-wide consensus and understanding, as well as driving growth of revenue and adoption.

A senior product manager/leader with experience in the Asset Management, Asset Investment Planning, Asset Performance Management and Analytics solutions space in North America is needed. Familiarity with the asset lifecycle and processes is essential. Knowledge of the software solutions market, covering products such as Infor, SAP, EDA, Copperleaf and similar is required. Experience with implementation of such tools in Enterprise or SMEs is necessary.

Role accountabilities:

• Market Understanding: Build and own a comprehensive picture of the product's market. Understand the problems to be addressed, the competitor landscapes, the pricing models and the target customer segments.
• Roadmap Management: Build a market-facing product roadmap, describing the main features and benefits over time. Collaborate with the Product Owners to schedule and maintain this.
• Customer Engagement: Act as an external point of reference for your product. Actively engage with the market, generate compelling collateral, liaise with our existing users, represent the voice of the customer to our internal stakeholders. Visit our clients and run our Customer Advisory Board in the North America region.
• Drive adoption: Understand the real-world adoption successes and blockers for your product. Define approaches to enhance uptake, usage and stickiness and measure their success.
• Be part of our ecosystem: Build up a partner network to take your product beyond Arcadis. Collaborate to ensure suppliers, implementation firms and resellers are working to a common vision and shared success.
• Accountable: Be highly accountable for the outcomes of their efforts to bring a product to market, including measuring product engagement as well as being a key contributor to the P&L of the product.

Qualifications & Experience:

We are looking for someone with experience gained in complex, fast-paced and customer-facing roles of a similar nature. Working in a global organisation with an asset management focus is ideal, and experience of software products and product management is a must.

• Ability to define products through insights from market research and customer buying behaviour.
• Ability to define and refine the key features, specifications, and requirements of the product-based customer preferences.
• Ability to lead product launches and marketing campaigns.
• Ability to create roadmap timelines and implementation schedules.

Essential Experience:

• 8+ Years’ Experience in Product Management.
• Relevant qualification in Product Management.
• Product Development experience.
• Product Pricing & Positioning experience.
• 3+ years Profit analysis and forecasting.
• 3+ years Competitor research experience.
• 3+ years Asset Management knowledge or 3+ years Asset Performance Management knowledge or 3+ years Analytics knowledge.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.