Digital Product Manager for Training Scheduling

Role and Responsibilities

Digital Product Manager for Training Scheduling

• Accountable to define and communicate to the product team the product roadmap for CAE Digital Products assigned to (Civil, or D&S, HC) existing and new, including the process and outputs required to communicate and coordinate product inception through to delivery
• Scope includes:
  • Product roadmap/executional plan to add annual value to products & deliver value to end-users, including creation of core feature packages, enhancements and upgrades sequence addressing market segments identified with BU Program Manager.
  • Accountability for life cycle management for the product with PO & Tech stakeholders, and Identify and recommend product improvements to fit customer needs and ensure market competitiveness
• Accountable to help plot the product execution plans for current and new areas of growth with BU Product/Sales owners
• Ensure that we are delivering Digital Strategies that meet business needs and requirements – ensure customer feedback, patterns, consumer behaviors understood, and processes developed to feed into the product lifecycle via a documented and data driven approach
• Manage Product Ceremonies in collaboration with PO & Chapters Delivery primes or leads ( Focus on Sprint Planning & Review - Scrum, Sprint Delivery should be handled by PO)
• Responsible for product idea validation & actively drive business case/investment decision process, including yearly budget, quarterly updates and monthly sponsors reviews
• Have a clear understanding of business cases, costs and profitability for each product assigned to
• Ensure best in class customer experience while delivering a commercial roadmap (with CX Lead)
• Manage day-to-day seamless relationship with Product owner & delivery Chapter leads to ensure Sprint Planning and delivery are executed.

Product Strategy:

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  Drive business/product strategy aligned with the strategic goals of the company and business unit and program manager
• Own annual road mapping process, with BU leads (Program managers) and Tech Stakeholders, and coordinate for external teams’ engagement in the process including prioritization
• Participate in long-range strategy planning to address complex business issues and new product development/integrations
• Anticipate, challenge, and interpret CAE Digital Products Ecosystem and technology trends and innovations as they relate to the backlogs and future product roadmaps
• Participate in product due diligence for new technology partners or purchases
• Bring together cross-functional teams as required to influence business decisions and advance long-term strategic efforts

Performance Management:

• Work with the BU Program Manager to develop, establish, and maintain standards, procedures and KPIs
• Introduce metrics designed to track the effect of the product teams to determine whether all leads are effective at meeting targets
• Develop/review product health reports & effect change based on results

Technical skills:

• Strong analytical, prioritization, and negotiating skills
• Usability and customer-focused design experience a plus
• Passionate about building great digital products and solving customer and business problems
• Ability to deeply understand digital market trends, partner ecosystems and competitive strategies
• Comfort with business strategy, backlog prioritization, go to market, pricing and tracking KPIs & financial metrics
• Ability to go deep on digital technology, trends, architectural questions, stack control points, roadmaps and managing the Digital Product Lifecycle
• Enable innovation through talented individuals, test-and-learn culture, innovation-oriented practices and organization
• Deep knowledge of Agile and its methodologies
• Knowledge of aviation pilot training and scheduling is an asset
• PMP a plus

Soft skills:

• Strategic thinking, able to develop and communicate a product vision to different teams and stakeholders
• Bilingualism (French and English) is required
• Proactive, self-starter with excellent product management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment.
• High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal.
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and questioning existing practices.

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Position Type

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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