Product Manager - Legal, People & Communications, and Safety

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.  

Are you ready to make your next career move to join our team as our Product Manager - Legal, People & Communications (P&C), and Safety for KONE Americas in KONE Lisle, IL?
 

• Do you enjoy enhancing and updating applications to keep up with the latest industry requirements and cyber safety needs?

• Does leading three large portfolios (Legal, People and Communications, & Safety motivate you?

• Do you thrive in areas where you regularly follow KPIs and communicate with key stakeholders?

• Are you skillful with technological tools such as Workday, Contract Management Systems, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Microsoft Suite?

• Do you demonstrate a passion for quality and results?

• Are you committed to leading modernization and transforming programs over the next three years?

If you answered a resounding YES to these questions, then we have an amazing opportunity for you!  

Location of position: Lisle, IL
 

As our Product Manager - Legal, P&C, and Safety, you will be responsible for maximizing the value realized from products within these domains. Taking a lifecycle approach, the Product Owner collaborates with business stakeholders from each business department and end users to understand their needs, prioritize them, and translate them into actionable product backlogs. You will work closely with agile teams and ensure the successful execution of prioritized backlogs. You’ll plan an active role in designing product functionality and features while coordinating with relevant experts to align product operations with its value proposition. Additionally, you’ll ensure that the deployed products operate at the planned levels.

You will bring 12+ years of product design / Product Management experience, while also bringing 12+ years of experience in supporting Legal, People, Communication, & Safety Systems. You will use the knowledge gained through your bachelor’s or master’s degree in Information Systems or equivalent.

Other Hiring requirements:

• Previous experience, leading large and complex transformations, Shared Services business domain with 12 years of experience

• Role will have direct relation with VP’s and Directors in Legal, P&C and Safety business lines to drive delivery, priorities and expectations

• Business and End user understanding especially in the related functional domains.

• Solid knowledge of product management practices, development, and Operations to ensure product value and performance over its lifetime.

• Ability to translate between business and technical viewpoints and strong familiarity and experience in applying design thinking techniques.

• Knowledge on how end user and customer data can be utilized in creating additional customer value. Strong familiarity and experience with agile, DevOps ways of working and Value- driven prioritization and execution practices.

• Communication, persuasion and networking skills

• Familiarity with Identity Management, SQL, Databases, API integrations

• Experience working with HR & People systems like Workday, Contract Management Systems, Data Analytics, Data Visualization. Microsoft suite of products i.e. Power Platform, Power Automate, Power BI and AI Technologies, etc.

About KONE

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