Product Manager, Growth & Innovation (Hybrid)

Company Description

Informa is one of the world’s leading knowledge providers. We create and deliver highly specialized information through publishing, events, training, market intelligence, and expertise, providing valuable knowledge to individuals, businesses and organizations worldwide.

Informa Markets creates platforms for industries to trade, innovate and grow. We provide customers and partners around the globe with opportunities to engage, experience, and do business through face-to-face exhibitions, specialist digital content, and actionable data solutions. As the world’s leading exhibitions organizer, with over 500 international events, we bring a diverse range of specialist markets to life, unlocking opportunities and helping them to thrive 365 days of the year.

Championing the Specialist

Informa Markets creates platforms for industries and specialist markets to trade, innovate and grow.

Informa Markets brings over a dozen specialist markets to life by connecting buyers and sellers and supporting the flow of business and trade. Our platforms help businesses meet, discover products, trade and grow through major exhibitions, virtual events, online marketplaces, specialist content and data services. We create perennial platforms using digital marketing solutions and rich educational content that drive community, outreach, engagement and connections 365 days a year. Our online marketplaces enable B2B industries to browse and purchase products and identify new suppliers. We combine deeper data, smarter planning and easier campaign management in our B2B marketing services – all working closely to get clearer results.

Job Description

The Product Manager, North America, will engage in deep dives into our market verticals (Infrastructure and Construction, Engineering, Agriculture, Health and Nutrition and Fashion) to identify customer needs and solve their challenges with world class digital products and innovative solutions that support Informa Markets. This role will work closely with Product leadership (SVP & Director of Product Management), internal stakeholders (marketing, sales, product, data analytics and other departments), as well as with our commercial and vendor partners to deliver digital products to bring suppliers, buyers, and service providers together to do business.

Must sit in Dallas/Irving area and have ability to work on a hybrid schedule. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with the Senior Product Manager of Growth and Innovation and the Research team to build a product roadmap and facilitate the execution of the roadmap to deliver high impact features to market
• Innovate and experiment in a blank slate environment, to drive the development of new scalable product opportunities which will drive digital revenue and maximize profitability for the business
• Partner with product leadership and business stakeholders to develop business cases for new product investment
• Work with product leadership, research and design to turn ambiguous problems and big ideas into a roadmap of research, experiments, and features
• Own complex experiments end-to-end, including defining product specs, OKRs, driving cross-functional execution, interpreting results and making thoughtful prioritization decisions along the way
• Combine knowledge of product management frameworks with curiosity to learn about a variety of industries, the businesses within them and the challenges those businesses face
• Listen to customers, both internal and external, in as many ways as possible, as frequently as possible, from one-on-one interviews to surveys to prototype testing
• Partner with research and design teams to synthesize user insights to clearly and deeply understand their wants and needs. Use that understanding to steer product strategy and decisions
• Research industry, customer, and competitor trends to inform future development.
• Set clear goals and ensure that what gets built and rolled out is desirable, feasible and viable
• Use performance metrics and user feedback to guide continuous improvement for digital products and services
• Balance customer needs with resource constraints and roadmap timelines
• Partner cross-functionally with internal and external engineering teams, third party software providers, design, marketing, sales and customer success to drive the complete product experience
• Clearly articulate tradeoffs and get buy-in from cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Proactively build relationships with those outside of your immediate team resulting in horizontal influence
• Manage project ambiguity, complexity and interdependencies in an organized and structured way
• Partner with product marketing to create documents, training presentations and other critical go-t