About This Role
This vital role involves owning the day-to-day product lifecycle for Planisware, connecting user needs, business priorities, and technology delivery to improve product adoption, platform performance, and measurable business outcomes. The Planisware Product Manager will manage product delivery, business administration, sustainment, and continuous improvement for Process Development, serving as the operational liaison among the Business Product Owner, platform users, business stakeholders, and development teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage and prioritize the Planisware team backlog in alignment with direction established by the Enterprise Business Platform Owner / Business Owner
- Support Business Product Owner in translating business needs, user feedback, and processing requirements into clear features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery-ready work
- Clarify requirements, make day-to-day scope trade-offs within approved priorities, and keep the delivery team focused on the highest-value work
- Coordinate roadmap execution, release planning, demonstrations, stakeholder feedback loops, and status reporting
- Coordinate platform configuration, testing, defect remediation, change control, release readiness, deployment support, and post-release stabilization with technical teams
- Monitor support trends, data quality concerns, platform usage, and recurring issues; coordinate corrective and preventive actions
- Support Planisware capabilities for project timelines, portfolio information, algorithm-driven resource forecasting, reporting, and integrations
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and Program Increment or quarterly planning activities
- Coach the team on Scrum, flow, quality, transparency, self-management, and continuous improvement practices
- Identify and remove impediments; coordinate dependencies, risks, and delivery issues across business, product, platform, and partner teams
- Use delivery measures such as sprint goal attainment, cycle time, throughput, spillover, and impediment trends to improve team execution and predictability, not to evaluate individual performance
- Create an environment of trust, accountability, constructive challenge, and continuous learning
- Liaise between business owners, users, and development teams to streamline product development and maintain shared understanding of priorities and requirements
- Gather and analyze user feedback and voice-of-customer input; identify support needs and convert validated insights into backlog items or process improvements
- Coordinate user onboarding, demonstrations, training, communications, job aids, and knowledge articles
- Support users in understanding Planisware functionality, data standards, reporting outputs, and resource-forecasting processes
