Associate Product Manager

Job Description

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues at DXC.com

Job Description

The Associate Manager of Software Engineering is a highly skilled, self-driven servant leader with an immense understanding of DXC’s Property and Casualty and Claims Product Family offerings including application end-to-end processing, P&C industry knowledge, strong people management, delivery focus, and software development process expertise.

• Serve as the liaison between the account teams, DXC project teams, and customers.
• Possess strong interpersonal and negotiation skills to build a solid value proposition and create a conducive win-win situation.
• Collaborate with multiple counterparts to deliver the release objectives, lead the release, and facilitate the adoption of value-added business solutions.

Essential Job Functions

• Work as the Product Manager for product offerings as assigned within the DXC P&C and Claims Product Families managing the end-to-end release milestones, ensuring seamless delivery, and understanding the customer community.
• Strong People, Process, Release Execution/Lifecycle, and product knowledge with focus and understanding of P&C and Claims domainSeamlessly create, manage, lead, and strategize the product roadmap by working closely with the Offering/Strategy Manager, Product Management Leader, Delivery Leaders, and counterpartsOversee the entire product development and modification life cycle process from inception through delivery phasesMonitor the overall release life cycle, project tracking & status reporting, process review, and compliance on pre-determined release parametersStaff projections, resource planning, and scheduling for the releaseManage offshore and domestic project team members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments, and objectivesRelease budgeting / scope-of-work (SoW) negotiations to participate actively in the roadmap and investment discussionsReview proposed solutions, T-shirt size estimations, and ROM estimates for enhancements and negotiate the scopeEnsure the Product Development team adheres to the SAFe® Agile Development Methodology, perform perpetual reviews of project status, identify potential project risks, and recommend and implement risk mitigation solutions as appropriateWork with the build teams and product owners to create project definitions, schedules, and objectives for various features from small to large complexity.
• Prepare detailed SoW, release whitepaper and gain concurrence & approval from DXC-internal and external stakeholders regarding delivery aspects of the releaseActively participate in the delivery assurance reviews to ensure adherence to project management standards and proceduresClosely interact with the Delivery organization and technical/functional staff, understand their requirements, and propose solutions using specialized knowledge of DXC’s product offering, market and customer needs

Communication And Release Cadence

Establish a seamless communication mechanism and networking conduit between Insurance Portfolio and Solution stakeholders encompassing multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in diverse geographies, including DXC leadership and, most importantly, a wide array of existing/potential customer pursuits backed by solid Lean Business Case, Benefit Hypothesis, etcPivotal stakeholders in Planning Iteration release meetings, stakeholder review meetings, monthly cadences with the Delivery and Sales Leadership counterparts, etcFoster an inter- or intra-team conducive environment, discuss pain points/risks, brainstorm mitigation plans/solutions, and negotiate a timeline/schedule for the quarterly release(s) based on the committed DoD/WSJFFoster the overall release cadence based on the Product roadmap discussions, budgeting, scheduling, staff projections / Scope-of-Work (SoW), and frequently collaborate with multiple pockets across other teams, DXC Product Engineering, and Services organizationsSeamlessly supports the product strategy, actively determines the release milestones, whitepapers, and checklist reviews, and ensures seamless release deliveries to the customers

Budgeting And Financials

Monitor the product release life cycle, tracking NRVs, process review, and compliance on pre-determined release parameters (including budget/time/scope). Billing and Staff projections, budget adherence, schedule compliance, resource planning, and scheduling for the releaseLeverage offshore and domestic project team members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments, and objectivesPerform Contract and MESA licensing and renewals, billing/invoicing, procurement, vendor management, etcPrepare detailed SoW, release Whitepaper approval discussions with the Accounting/Finance team, and gain concurrence & approval from DXC-internal and external stakeholders regarding delivery aspects of the release. Actively participate in the delivery assurance reviews to ensure adherence to the project management standards, exit criteria, matrices, financial forecast (P&L), and other indices/parameters

Management And Administrative Functions

Timesheet reviews and approvals Performance reviews Contract understanding Billing and Invoicing Vendor Management and s/w licensing/procurement Finance Procedures and Tracking Budgets (Forecasts/Actuals), WBS owner, etc.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience Bachelor's degree in business administration, information systems (or) related field preferred Twelve (or) more years of relevant experience Experience working with the interface of information technology with functional groups within the organization. Proficient with Microsoft Office tools, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, etc.

Other Skills

Strong verbal and written communication and leadership skills Strong negotiation, interpersonal and presentation skills Ability to lead and work in a fast-paced SAFE® Agile model comprising of multiple teams & geographies involving time overlaps Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and switch between tasks seamlessly Willingness to travel, as required

Work Environment

Remote (or) Office environment, as required

Compensation at DXC is influenced by an array of factors, including but not limited to the experience, job-related knowledge, skills, competencies, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. A reasonable estimate of the current compensation range for this position is $84,100 - $156,100.

Full-time hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program. DXC offers a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; employee wellness; life and disability insurance; a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off.

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