Product Manager

Description:

Ritchie Bros is seeking a Product Manager with knowledge in financial data flows, products, and processes. This role will require domain expertise in financial and accounting systems and processes.

As the Product Manager responsible for financial products, you will work closely stakeholders across the finance organization to enable a best-in-class customer and employee experience. This includes developing the strategy, requirements, timelines, milestones, and processes that enable teams to work seamlessly as Ritchie Bros continues to transform our business into a product-driven marketplace. You should serve as a thought-leader to the team.

In this role you’ll:

• Insights

  • Works with finance and other product teams to uncover areas of opportunity to improve our financial products and tools

  • Uses data as a key input to product decisions

  • Defines metrics to track and measure business benefits

  • Understands industry trends across their product area and works to incorporate standard processes with outside-in thinking

• Strategy

  • Responsible for shaping product area strategy with close support from manager

  • Can create and clarify strategy in ambiguous areas with guidance

  • Contributes and influences at group level

  • Creates clear and logical rationale that is in line with product area strategy and is easy to consume

  • Gets team buy-in on strategy and roadmap rationale

• Execution

  • Synthesizes input from various sources to craft a single narrative

  • Meticulously ensures strategy is up to date

  • Actively contributes to exploration of multiple solutions to the problem statement, and represents inputs and tradeoffs to drive accurate scoping

  • Ensures teams are focused by default on scoping small and clearly documenting decisions made

  • Defines what we need to learn and best way to learn it

  • Gets teams to quickly adapt to results

  • Defines new and existing customer feature onboarding

• Driving Outcomes

  • Establishes and drives consistent shipping cadence

  • Ensures product quality is high

  • Can demonstrate meaningful impact to customers and our business

  • Aligns the team around the outcomes they’re fighting for

• Leadership Behaviors

  • Communicates with the team, product leadership, and key stakeholders frequently and effectively

  • Actively ensures their product team is aligned and engaged

  • Collaborates effectively with the team, peers, and stakeholders

  • Looks for opportunities to improve how to work well together with the team, and how they work

  • Consistent, reliable ownership of the problem through to the solution within and across teams, peers, and partners

  • Identifies risks and issues, and proactively finds solutions

  • Decisive and assertive

  • Is not consensus driven – strong opinions (mostly) held weakly

  • Doesn’t procrastinate

• Actively support the RB Unreserved Commitment to Safety: to send everyone home, every day, the way they came to work, by taking personal responsibility for your safety and safety of your team, co-workers and customers.