Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

You will be a part of the Research and Development organization and serve as the “two-way translator” between our Development team and our Customers, Partners, and the Market in general. In this role you will build and evangelize compelling product visions, define strategies, set roadmap priorities, and establish differentiated value propositions. Travelling outside Sri Lanka is necessary. Sound interesting? Then join us as our new Product Manager for Projects solution.

As Product Manager you shepherd our product investments from conception through to retirement. You will manage the product offering within the Projects domain, ensuring that it contributes to securing overall market success. The primary focus is understanding project-centric business models, operations and market needs coming from prospects and customers across our six target industries. You will continuously engage with the market to build investment cases with crisp and differentiated value propositions, and in alignment with the IFS overall vision and strategy. Once you set the investment goals, you will work closely with our Program Management and development teams to ensure the solution delivers on those goals. In parallel you will support our marketing, sales, and consulting organizations in articulating the added value that those investments bring to our product offering and to our customers.

Qualifications

As a Product Manager at IFS, you will be expected to:

• Collect, analyze, and define customer and market needs for target industries and audiences.
• Contribute to competitive intelligence insights.
• Identify and define product differentiators and unique selling points that makes IFS stand out from competition and market in general.
• Set clear and value-driven priorities for all investment cases.
• Convert business needs into product investment proposals, product roadmaps, strategy and vision statements.
• Have domain and functional knowledge of ERP applications and Project-centric capabilities.
• Build customer and market value propositions for investment cases.
• Contribute to development of monetization strategies, product packaging and pricing.
• Proficient presenter, inspiring others by using storytelling and expertise to showcase how customers benefit from using our products and technologies.
• Present vision, strategy, and roadmap to different stakeholders
• Interact, share knowledge and expertise to create a collective understanding of customer needs, challenges and opportunities in our target industries and market.
• Review software designs for fit to market and engineering value proposition.
• Work closely with Program Managers to secure that the intended value of investments is realized.
• Enable product marketing functions with product and technology messaging and marketing material.
• Support sales and pre-sales with sales collateral, and selectively participate in sales cases.
• Participate in customer escalations and be part of driving the process toward resolutions
• Monitors financial performance for consideration in investment decision making.
• Create positive market attention for product and technologies across prospects, customers, analysts and journalists.

Additional information

You are:

· Positive, determined and have an open and can-do attitude

· Goal and execution oriented

· Pro-active, take initiative and assume responsibility

· A creative forward thinker

· A team player

· An effective communicator in English

Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.