VP Product Mgmt

About the Business:

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Government vertical, our solutions assist government agencies and law enforcement to drive insights from complex data sets, improving operation efficiency, increasing program integrity, discovering, and recovering revenue, and making timely and informed decisions to enhance investigations. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below. https://risk.lexisnexis.com/government

About the Role:

The VP Product Management will be responsible for overall product portfolio strategy and execution, be responsible for embedding product management excellence in their organization and be a role model for developing strong relationships with key partners including technology and market, serve as a thought leader for the company and have the ability to sway decisions of senior executives. This individual will also have direct management responsibility for product managers and managers of product managers.

Responsibilities:

• Establishes long term, robust customer relationships and engagement plans with customers, to ensure all team leaders and product managers have customer communication processes in place

• Is heavily involved in the industry and is aware of, and remains knowledgeable, on information pertaining to market, competitive products, industry data, as well as cutting edge technology for best product use

• Adapts the product strategy as needed based on market changes

• Makes significant contributions to decisions around release schedules, release approvals, customer impact, and data-driven processes for the Government Market

• Ensures alignment with all groups around the key KPIs to be achieved with products and internal processes

• Works collaboratively with all necessary stakeholders to develop a clear and compelling go-to-market strategy, messaging, positioning and themes for a sizeable product suite

• Defines, leads and adapts a go-to-market vision for the product portfolio to meet or exceed revenue goals in alignment with the market strategy to succeed in current and future market conditions

• Ensures coordinated execution and communication of the product strategy and deliverables across relevant stakeholder groups

• Is the critical driver or owner of the production lifecycle, strategy and business cases

• Oversees innovation that represent significant contributions to the product suite

• Works with team and other groups to improve broader product communication and education processes for the company

• Demonstrates a deep understanding of the political, economic and environmental context in which the market operates and links this to the portfolio strategy

CAPABILITIES

Customer Focus

• Identifies best practices and techniques relative to customer insight from outside of the organization and drives adoption

• Able to lead and prioritize the voice of the customer both internally and externally and offers thought leadership within the industry

• Draws insights on convergence over the long-term across trends in other industries and interpret how these may impact customers

Data Driven Decisioning & Analysis

• Is an expert or advocate at customer analytics with the ability to identify the right data for making decisions and to analyze the relative value of alternative approaches

• Is capable of driving an organizational culture of hypothesis-testing and data-driven decision making

Go to Market & Product Marketing Lifecycle

• Is an expert at applying learning from past market launch activities to improve product GTM strategies and launch plans

• Is adept at innovating on new approaches and tools to improve effectiveness of GTM strategy and launch

• Is skillful at developing portfolio level messaging, positioning, and themes that deliver a clear and compelling product narrative

• Able to provide thought leadership and product evangelism internally and externally

• Is recognized as an expert, coach and mentor for other less experienced members of go-to-market team

Product Delivery & Development Lifecycle

• Expert in product development and current methodologies such as Agile methodologies in the build processes recognized company-wide

• Is very familiar with leading processes outside of the company and can internalize knowledge from external communities for the organization

• Able to create and orchestrate a product