Aerospace & Defense Product Manager- Contenta Product Line

Location- East Coast / US- remote             

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations. Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.  Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).  For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

About The Role:

As the Product Manager for the Contenta S1000D and LiveContent S1000D offerings within the Contenta Publishing Suite, you will be responsible for defining the vision, developing the strategy and driving the product roadmap. You will work closely with product marketing, product development and strategic partners to deliver the right solutions to customers with the highest levels of quality and customer satisfaction. The Product Manager serves as a product champion by deeply understanding customer requirements across the market segments of this industry landscape and then evangelizes these requirements and objectives across multiple functional groups within the Government, Aerospace and Defense team.

Requirements:

• Aerospace or Defense industry experience a must, either on the US Government, contractor or vendor side.
• Minimum 5 years of proven enterprise product management experience a must;  extra credit if 2+ years of experience has been with content management and delivery products within A&D
• Excellent written and communication skills and equally able to talk to engineers, senior executives, and customers.
• Solid understanding of structured content management and delivery systems
• Good understanding of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) of complex systems
• Understanding of Technical Documentation principals, including planning, project management, editing, publishing and dynamic delivery is a plus.
• Understanding of the S1000D Technical Documentation specification and familiarity with the entire S-Series is a big plus.
• Able to easily transition between high level strategy to day-to-day implementation
• Results driven, attention to detail and follow-through.
• Have the innate ability to inspire passion in others
• Willingness and ability to travel, including international travel, to customers, conferences, workshops (Travel estimate: 10%-20%)
• US Citizenship required

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product Marketing to develop and communicate the product vision and strategy that integrates and balances customer requirements, return on investment and innovations that will grow the business across our current and targeted market segments.
• Implement the product strategy by defining and communicating the product roadmaps and managing and grooming the product backlogs.
• Engage customers and internal stakeholders to define, prioritize, and validate functional and non-functional product requirements and drive successful roll-out and implementation of new product capabilities
• Strengthen customer loyalty and advocacy by demonstrating a deep understanding of the clients business, goals and needs.
• Develop credibility and trust with strategic customers who are at the forefront of their Aerospace & Defense market segments.
• Provide cross functional team leadership throughout the product lifecycle.
• Champion transformational processes cross functionally to help teams effectively deliver customer value.
• Prepare for business reviews, financial analysis & forecasting
• Engage with product marketing and sales around Go-To-Market plans
• Engage with partner team and partners for solution development, release and sustainment
• Engage with operations, legal and finance to maintain the logistical aspects of the business

Benefits:

• Amazing benefits. (Seriously!)
• Infinite training, professional development and personal growth opportunities.
• The rare opportunity to impact how organizations communicate globally. There’s a reason we work with 90 of the top 100 brands.
• Smart, engaged co-workers, a culture of diversity, innovation and opportunity.
• Great work life balance!

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives  us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch.  As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and promoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration. We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.    

RWS is an Affirmative Action Employer.  Qualified applicants will be evaluated for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran, and disability status.  For more information about EEO/AAP legislation please visit: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

RWS embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.

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