Senior Manager, Product Common Components

<p><strong>POSITION SUMMARY:<br/><br/></strong>At Rainforest Alliance, we believe in customer-centricity. The Product Development Department, operating within the Product portfolio is at the forefront of driving transformative growth and impact in the fields of sustainable agriculture, climate resilience, and ecosystem conservation.<br/><br/>With a strategic focus on innovation, collaboration, and a customer-centric approach, this dynamic department plays a crucial role in crafting and delivering cutting-edge products. From end-to-end product lifecycle management to scalable solutions, the team spearheads initiatives that align with overarching business goals. Through interdisciplinary stakeholder consultation, continuous improvement, and strategic partnerships, the Product Development Department stands as a catalyst for achieving the organization's mission.<br/><br/>We seek an experienced Senior Manager to lead our diverse team of Product Owners, encompassing GIS, data products, data collection, invoicing, and shared components and capabilities. The Senior Manager - Product Common Components will be accountable for the individual and team’s duties and responsibilities, ensuring future sustainability, reusability, and successful product budgeting and deliveries. This role requires close collaboration with the product/project delivery team, product/project delivery managers, process engineering/process modelling team, and product architecture team.<br/><br/><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:<br/><br/></strong><strong>Team Leadership:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead a diverse team of Product Owners, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.</li> <li>Set goals, provide regular feedback and conduct performance reviews to drive team excellence and accountability.</li> <li>Promote a positive, inclusive and high-performance culture that values innovation, teamwork and diversity.</li> <li>Provide leadership in resolving roadblocks, making data driven decisions and ensuring the team remains focused on key deliverables.</li> <li>Ensure optimal team structure, workload distribution and resource planning to meet business priorities.</li> <li>Build an inclusive environment where Product Managers feel safe to share ideas, be innovative, take risks and learn from mistakes.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Product Oversight:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Ensure the successful development, scalability, and reusability of widely used shared components and products such as centralized portal for organizational-wide products, GIS, Data Products, Data Collection Capabilities, Invoicing, and Project Management components.</li> <li>Align Product Roadmaps with business goals, product needs and technical feasibility.</li> <li>Ensure consistency, maintainability and interoperability across different products where applicable.</li> <li>Foster a culture of continuous iteration and product evolution.</li> <li>Advocate for internal and external users by ensuring common components solve real problems efficiently.</li> <li>Ensure common components provide a seamless and consistent experience across products.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Product Ownership:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide technical oversight and guidance for all products within the unit, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and efficiency.</li> <li>Manage and refine a backlog of common components based on business needs and strategic direction.</li> <li>Champion the importance of reusable components in driving efficiency and scalability across products.</li> <li>Gather and incorporate user feedback to refine usability and functionality across products.</li> <li>Use data driven insights to refine and improve components.</li> <li>Maintain a single source of truth for product specifications, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria for all common components.</li> </ul> <p><strong>End-to-End Accountability:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Take ownership of the entire product lifecycle, ensuring all components meet quality and efficiency standards. This should include planning, development, all aspects of testing and the implementation of the overall solution, required to deliver the benefits.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Collaboration:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Work closely with the management of the product/project delivery team, product/project delivery managers, process engineering/process modeling team, and product architecture team to ensure seamless integration and alignment of efforts.</li> <li>Ensure alignment between Product/Project delivery team and managers on timelines, dependencies and priorities ensuring that all common components are factored into the overall product delivery plans and landscape.</li> <li>Regularly synchronize roadmaps to adapt to changing business needs.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Budget Management:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Oversee budgeting for the unit, ensuring cost-effective resource allocation and adherence to financial targets.<br/><strong></strong></li> </ul> <p><strong>Compl