Vice President, Product Management

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The Vice President, Enablon Product management is responsible to drive the success of the ESG, EHS, Control of Work and PSM offering for the Corporate Performance & ESG Division. Close alignment with CP&ESG strategy is critical. This function combines all current product management functions related to ESG, EHS, Control of Work, and Process Safety management within Enablon, as well as the Innovation function related to those domains. The key focus is on the evolution of product solutions and the transformation and modernization of a SaaS model.

The VP is accountable for creating and articulating the overall product portfolio strategy in close collaboration with other functions within Enablon and the Corporate Performance & ESG Division, the overall product-related customer experience related to Enablon with a specific focus on different Buyer- and User Personas, product lifecycle management, preparing the 3-year-vision roadmap, the 1-year-execution roadmap, driving the quarterly Program Increment Process (SAFE-PI) related to ESG, EHS, Control of Work and PSM as well as strengthening Enablon eco-system and supporting all sales- and marketing functions. 

The focus of the position is to deeply understand the ESG, EHS, Control of Work, and Process Safety management marketplace and then, to align with the company's strategic and tactical priorities and work closely with all functions within the company to drive the development of products for the ESG, EHS, Control of Work, and PSM offerings. The goal is to establish a successful product and go-to-market strategy and execution. Furthermore, the organization goal is constantly identifying innovation opportunities for market and product expansion organically and inorganically (M&A) to support the growth agenda; and to ensure the organization is operating as efficiently as possible with an inspired, engaged, and talented workforce. This role will execute the segment priorities through other Enablon functional organizations (Sales, Pre-Sales, Alliances & Channels, Marketing, Development, Customer Success, Professional Services, and Finance). 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Vice President of Enablon Product Management is responsible for managing the business in service of three key stakeholder groups: WK share-holders, WK customers, and WK employees. All business activities should be leveraged to the benefit of these stakeholders to ensure  that the business remains strong internally, to the market, and delivers on financial commitments.

• Develop, articulate, and lead the execution of a robust product roadmap for an end-to-end ESG, EHS, Control of Work and Process Safety management offering for large and global Enterprises. 

• Develop and maintain a deep knowledge of the core business and trends within the ESG, EHS, CoW,  PSM market, scale and scope of total market opportunity, customer profile, market ownership, competitive landscape, and market trends to effectively evaluate prospects for share of wallet growth, increased market share, and expansion into logical adjacencies. Utilize customer insights  analyses in ESG, EHS, CoW,  PSM for optimizing price and market positions. 

• Build a strong Product Management team capable of supporting double-digit revenue growth in the future. 

• Develop and effectively execute a Product portfolio strategy for growth, including, but not limited to, optimizing current product  offerings, leveraging new product opportunities to enhance existing offerings, evaluating options for new solutions sets for customers and strategically operationalizing those, strengthening underperforming customer segments, identifying and pursuing  new customer segments, developing and executing on appropriate marketing and communications to powerfully articulate  the value proposition to the market, and working closely with other functions  (Marketing, Sales, Customer Success)  to ensure sales and service teams are fully prepared to properly represent the ESG, EHS, CoW, PSM positioning and offering while  strengthening relationships with customers so that Wolters Kluwer is reliably perceived as the provider of choice.  

• Constantly screening the market to identify M&A opportunities to expand ESG, EHS, CoW,  PSM -related product portfolios in line with the strategic direction, to that end, working closely with the CP & ESG Divisional Business Development team and Corporate M&A  functions. 

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