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Date: Dec 18, 2024
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Company: Deloitte
Job Type: Permanent
Reference code: 127932
Primary Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Our Purpose
At Deloitte, we are driven to inspire and help our people, organization, communities, and country to thrive. Our Purpose is to build a better future by accelerating and expanding access to knowledge. Purpose defines who we are and gives us reason to exist as an organization.
By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.
- Learn from deep subject matter experts through mentoring and on the job coaching
- Leverage the Deloitte CPA Advantage program, a comprehensive support program for CPA modules and the CFE.
- Be encouraged to deepen your technical skills…whatever those may be.
- Build your leadership skills at Deloitte University.
- Have many careers in one Firm.
- Partner with clients to solve their most complex problems
- Enjoy flexible, proactive, and practical benefits that foster a culture of well-being and connectedness.
- Enjoy My Benefit Dollars - a flexible benefit to support your physical, financial and emotional well-being.
- Experience a firm where wellness matters.
- Experience MyFlex and an agile work environment where work is what you do not where you do it
- Experience MyFlex where reduced hours or seasonal work allows you to meet your personal goals.
- Build a network of colleagues for life
- Have an impact that matters through pro bono and significant volunteer opportunities.
- Be empowered to lead and have impact with clients, our communities and in the office.
- Be expected to share your ideas and to make them a reality.
- Be part of a firm that leads the way and pushes themselves to look like contemporary Canada.
- Grow your network and your knowledge by joining one of our many Employee Resource Groups.
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What will your typical day look like?
Our ambition is to build best in class products that deliver value to our customers and businesses in a repeatable and scalable way and to be the thought leader for building and incubating Product within Deloitte. As a Nova Product Manager, you will be crucial in driving the success of an Asset within the Nova portfolio and help shape the future of a product-centric mindset for asset-built businesses at Deloitte. You will be tasked to lead the cross-functional team that will build and navigating the product through the lifecycle and embody best practices to help us achieve our ambition.
Key responsibilities:
- Product Strategy: Responsible for defining the overall product strategy and vision in partnership with Asset leaders. This includes understanding the market, gathering customer insights (i.e. market research, competitor assessment, etc.), establishing the north star and identifying the opportunities for product improvement or expansion.
- Product Planning and Roadmapping: Responsible for creating and maintaining a product roadmap. This includes prioritizing features based on customer validation (direct from client, from Asset team, from Sales Enablement team client demos, etc.), setting release schedules, and aligning the product with business objectives. The Product Manager is responsible for ensuring the roadmap is communicated effectively to stakeholders, making sure the scope is defined/redefined and the trade-offs are clear when making pivots.
- Requirement Gathering and Analysis: Works closely with stakeholders, customers, and development teams to gather requirements and define product specifications. This involves understanding user needs, conducting market research, and analyzing data to make informed decisions. In addition, the Product Manager requires collaboration with UX designers and engineers to define clear product requirements and specifications.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Acts as a bridge between different teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales. They collaborate with these teams to ensure the product is delivered on time and meets customer expectations. They often provide guidance and support as well as help resolve conflicts or issues that may arise during the development process.
- Exercise Governance and Empower the Team: The PM is responsible for providing context to the team and empowering them so they aren’t required for every decision. They also need to drive Product Governance in the form of leading grooming/refinement workshops, leading the sprint demos and quarterly product review sessions. Roles and responsibilities must be clear across the scrum team to ensure a successful delivery.
- Scrum & Product Best Practices: Works with the scrum team to execute the shared vision. Outlines the plan to achieve success and owns the team backlog and fulfillment work. Is involved in day-to-day activities of the scrum team, serving the role of the Product Owner (Scrum Definition – not Deloitte definition). Adherence to scrum best practices and product management best practices to showcase consistency across Nova.
- Product Launch and Marketing: A product manager plays a key role in launching new products or features. They work closely with marketing and sales teams to develop go-to-market strategies, positioning, pricing, and messaging (they don’t own it).
- Product Performance Monitoring: A product manager continuously monitors the performance of the product (i.e. user engagement, conversion rates, customer satisfaction, A/B testing, etc.), collects feedback, and analyzes data to identify areas for improvement. They use this information to make data-driven decisions and iterate on the product strategy (works with Prod Ops Mgr).
About the team
About Nova
The Deloitte Nova group serves as our proprietary software product organization here at Deloitte. We oversee and nurture a portfolio of client-centric software products. Our portfolio encompasses SaaS, on-premise, and in-cloud products, tailored to our diverse clientele and subject to a cyclical product development life cycle.
Enough about us, let’s talk about you
Required Skills/Experience:
- 1 year of product, marketing or project management experience.
- Proven self-starter with a demonstrated ability to take initiative, drive results and champion a project from conception through implementation and evaluation.
- Experience developing and managing relationships with multiple stakeholders.
- Proven ability to demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to demonstrate analytical skills, comfortable with analyzing data to draw insights to inform business strategy.
- Attention to detail and unrelenting focus on quality.
- Strong oral and written communication skills; emphasis on proposal development and the creation/delivery of effective presentations
- Proven ability to lead change and set priorities, with capacity to be flexible and adapt with new opportunities.
- Strong team player with proven ability to build relationships to accomplish goals.
- Experience in Jira or Rally is a must
- Scrum Product Owner / Product Manger certification is an asset.
Total Rewards
The salary range for this position is $85,000 - $156,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.
Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. Some representative examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, 38+ days off (including 10 firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days"), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.
Our promise to our people: Deloitte is where potential comes to life.
Be yourself, and more.
We are a group of talented people who want to learn, gain experience, and develop skills. Wherever you are in your career, we want you to advance.
You shape how we make impact.
Diverse perspectives and life experiences make us better. Whoever you are and wherever you’re from, we want you to feel like you belong here. We provide flexible working options to support you and how you can contribute. Be the leader you want to be.
Be the leader you want to be
Some guide teams, some change culture, some build essential expertise. We offer opportunities and experiences that support your continuing growth as a leader.
Have as many careers as you want.
We are uniquely able to offer you new challenges and roles – and prepare you for them. We bring together people with unique experiences and talents, and we are the place to develop a lasting network of friends, peers, and mentors. Our TVP is about relationships – between leaders and their people, the firm and its people, peers, and within in our communities.
The next step is yours
At Deloitte, we are all about doing business inclusively – that starts with having diverse colleagues of all abilities. Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada. This includes, but is not limited to, people with disabilities, candidates from Indigenous communities, and candidates from the Black community in support of living our values, creating a culture of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and our commitment to our AccessAbility Action Plan, Reconciliation Action Plan and the BlackNorth Initiative.
We encourage you to connect with us at accessiblecareers@deloitte.ca if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). We’d love to hear from you!
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