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Experienced Contract Software Product Manager
Simon Freedman
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Staines, United Kingdom
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Product manager with 20 years' experience creating marketable technology solutions that add real value to customers.
Combination of strong business acumen and technical expertise enables me to use understanding of market and customer requirements to drive effective strategic roadmaps, as well as to translate product functionality into tangible benefits, value propositions and messaging.
Extensive experience of pragmatic application of Agile methodologies across cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), HR/timekeeping, billing and claims management solutions.
Proven track record in taking new products to market, from inception through to successful launch and ongoing lifecycle management.
Combination of strong business acumen and technical expertise enables me to use understanding of market and customer requirements to drive effective strategic roadmaps, as well as to translate product functionality into tangible benefits, value propositions and messaging.
Extensive experience of pragmatic application of Agile methodologies across cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), HR/timekeeping, billing and claims management solutions.
Proven track record in taking new products to market, from inception through to successful launch and ongoing lifecycle management.
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United Kingdom
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Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2016 - ?
job
Senior Product Manager
Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
Responsible for product management portfolio of applications including claims management (non-fault credit hire/repair), billing, HR and timekeeping.
Key achievements:
- Implementing end-to-end claims management system supporting £300m business
- Implementing SaaS workforce management/timekeeping system across Europe
- Providing presales support on successful insurance replacement bid worth £100m
- Driving forward implementation programme for a new, 3rd party SaaS timekeeping and absence management solution across UK, Ireland and Germany
- European application consolidation and alignment across France, Spain and Germany
- Migrating key billing workloads from legacy system to new
- Establishing standardised product management processes, documentation, tools and best practices, and leveraging these to help develop others
Key responsibilities:
- Managing product roadmap and backlog, product strategy and prioritisation
- Working closely with in-house and partner UX, dev and test engineering teams to deliver new applications, enhancements and API integrations
- Presales, change management and training
- Requirements gathering, user story and process mapping, backlog management, acceptance criteria and UAT
- Influencing senior stakeholders through expertise, confidence and rapport
- Championing a culture where quality and delivery on-time and in budget are key
Key achievements:
- Implementing end-to-end claims management system supporting £300m business
- Implementing SaaS workforce management/timekeeping system across Europe
- Providing presales support on successful insurance replacement bid worth £100m
- Driving forward implementation programme for a new, 3rd party SaaS timekeeping and absence management solution across UK, Ireland and Germany
- European application consolidation and alignment across France, Spain and Germany
- Migrating key billing workloads from legacy system to new
- Establishing standardised product management processes, documentation, tools and best practices, and leveraging these to help develop others
Key responsibilities:
- Managing product roadmap and backlog, product strategy and prioritisation
- Working closely with in-house and partner UX, dev and test engineering teams to deliver new applications, enhancements and API integrations
- Presales, change management and training
- Requirements gathering, user story and process mapping, backlog management, acceptance criteria and UAT
- Influencing senior stakeholders through expertise, confidence and rapport
- Championing a culture where quality and delivery on-time and in budget are key
Agile, Product Management, Business Analysis, Agile project management, Change management, Saas, Cloud, User stories
2013 - 2016
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Global Product Manager
Flexiant.
Responsible for product management and product marketing of Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator (IaaS orchestration and management platform) and Flexiant Concerto (PaaS/SaaS multi-cloud application lifecycle management targeted at DevOps community).
Key achievements:
- Took Flexiant Concerto from inception through to launch with over 300 active users; sold to Ingram Micro, since branded as Ingram Micro Cloud Orchestrator
- Doubled annual customer revenues for Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator
- Established an Agile development process, both Scrum and Kanban, thereby increasing product release frequency from twice a year to once a month
- Successfully entered completely new market for Flexiant (direct to DevOps community rather than our legacy experience of going via service providers)
- Created the product marketing function from scratch, with full ownership of all aspects of product marketing, including both strategy and execution
Key responsibilities:
- Roadmap and product ownership, project management
- Growing technology partner ecosystem incl. API integrations; joint partner marketing
- Requirements gathering, user story and process mapping, backlog management
- Go-To-Market campaign planning and execution
- User Acceptance Testing, A/B testing, data analysis
- Presales and customer training
- Market intelligence as well as competitor monitoring and analysis
- Marketing collateral and value proposition, blogs and social media marketing
Key achievements:
- Took Flexiant Concerto from inception through to launch with over 300 active users; sold to Ingram Micro, since branded as Ingram Micro Cloud Orchestrator
- Doubled annual customer revenues for Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator
- Established an Agile development process, both Scrum and Kanban, thereby increasing product release frequency from twice a year to once a month
- Successfully entered completely new market for Flexiant (direct to DevOps community rather than our legacy experience of going via service providers)
- Created the product marketing function from scratch, with full ownership of all aspects of product marketing, including both strategy and execution
Key responsibilities:
- Roadmap and product ownership, project management
- Growing technology partner ecosystem incl. API integrations; joint partner marketing
- Requirements gathering, user story and process mapping, backlog management
- Go-To-Market campaign planning and execution
- User Acceptance Testing, A/B testing, data analysis
- Presales and customer training
- Market intelligence as well as competitor monitoring and analysis
- Marketing collateral and value proposition, blogs and social media marketing
Agile project management, Product Management, Product, Social Media Marketing, B2B Marketing, It project management
My education
1996
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1999
University of Reading
Bachelors (Hons), Philosophy
Bachelors (Hons), Philosophy
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