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The Product Information Technical Specialist is responsible for maximizing product content value by articulating and prioritizing the PIM product features for a cross-functional delivery team to develop. The Technical Specialist ensures the product is built to maximize rich content value for the Business. They work in an open, collaborative, and approachable manner with the Business and IT teams to inspire optimal solutions that solve customers’ problems and challenge the team to find the smartest, most efficient solutions.

Essential Accountabilities:

• Serves as subject-matter-expert (SME) and technical expert of the PIM application (InRiver) for Brunswick Boat Group (BBG).
• Facilitates the development of product hierarchy and PIM governance for content procurement, creation, and syndication.
• Accountable for the ongoing management and market delivery of rich content, including: product roadmap advancement through use cases, situational analysis, and business requirements to ensure product content best practices deployment.
• Works directly with Business stakeholders to populate and organize product-related data and digital assets for BBG brands / divisions.
• Drives feature roadmap from planning to launch, working in collaboration with cross functional teams including IT, Marketing, Product Engineering and Sales.
• Works closely with IT Platform Product Managers to define global product features according to the product vision, roadmap and strategy.
• Actively plans and prioritizes the product feature backlog according to business value and clearly articulates priorities for the product team. Working with the engineering manager balances the need to address technical debt and supports technical innovation in addition to adding product features.
• Conducts user acceptance review in collaboration with QA resource, performance tuning and related activities for new product releases.
• Leads the planning of product releases and sets expectations for delivery of new features with stakeholders. Collaborates with stakeholders regarding the correction of defects.
• Creates and maintains related documentation, as necessary for rich content service.
• Provides technical counsel to both internal and external customers on functional implementation of assigned programs to achieve business objectives. Accountability includes situational analysis of current state and mapping to rich content capabilities.
• Acts as SME for rich content for business teams, IT teams, and external vendors.
• Creates a sense of common goal for the team based on the product vision. Regularly engages with the product team to guide priorities, refine features, define functional requirements, and help address blockers impacting successful team completion of goals.
• Works in close collaboration with stakeholders to understand their expectations and helps the team understand how to set up for successful user acceptance testing.
• Works in close cooperation with the team during retrospectives, with a view to identifying continuous improvement opportunities.
• Coordinates with multiple parties (product team, vendors, strategic partners, engineering managers, business partners, etc.) to meet the customer’s priorities while being aware of the insights, needs and constraints of those stakeholders.
• Collaborates with other Product Owners as needed to align on release plans and ensure backlogs are in alignment with the overall organizational strategy. Owns the outward communication of product progress and value to stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree (IT disciplines preferred).
• Client-facing experience and stakeholder management.
• Minimum 3+ years working in a PIM and/or CMS Domain, with experience in product information management (Product information -Master Data Management, Marketing eCommerce and other channels). Thorough knowledge of product hierarchies, processes pertaining to product management, architecture, data quality. InRiver experience is preferred.
• Exposure to multiple solutions or multiple implementations of PIMs will be a differentiator.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain knowledge around the product that will be owned. (InRiver)
• Experience in performing Product Owner role.
• Demonstrable ability to translate business needs into requirements and define those in a written format that allows the development teams to align behind the product vision.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, relationship-building and collaboration skills at all levels.
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience as a change agent at multiple levels of an organization.
• Agile Experience.
• Experience working with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Oracle CPQ is a plus.

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and inspiration. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require accommodations during the interview process.

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