Also very similar to a previous job post, from a month or so ago, that I posted in entirety on this site.
A librarian would be able to contribute so much, to this position:
Philadelphia Product Manager, Web of Knowledge Job - PA, 19019
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
alt-lib Suggests: Product Manager, Web of Knowledge Job - Philadelphia PA, 19019
Saturday, January 21, 2012
alt-lib Suggests: Product Manager, Web Services & Usage Job - Philadelphia PA, 19019- Thomson Reuters
Philadelphia Product Manager, Web Services & Usage Job - PA, 19019
Remember: in any setting, there are clients needing your knowledge of how to obtain, analyse, and manage relavent information. For example, look at item #10 in the job description below - it tells us that we librarians have the right skills and knowledge for positions such as this. -alt-lib
EXCERPTS FOLLOW:
Title: Product Manager, Web Services & Usage
ID: PRO00006513
Description
Web Services & Usage Manager
Main Purpose of Job:
The Scientific & Scholarly Research business of IP & Science provides research and analytic solutions, including Web of Knowledge (WoK), the "gold standard" citation database and search platform, that help scientists and researchers find, analyze, and leverage authoritative scholarly content. Customers include universities, academic and governmental research institutions, scholars and researchers, publishers, and university faculty and administrators.
Reporting to the Director Product Strategy, Search & Discovery as part of the Practice of Science Product & Market Strategy organization, the Product Manager, Web Services & Usage will be responsible for indentifying, developing and driving the organizations web services strategy. This role will be responsible for understanding the current and future market needs and developing a web services strategy and usage data commercialization strategy that will deliver revenue growth for the organization. The Web Services Product Manager is accountable for product ROI and must coordinate a cross-functional team to identify specific investment prioritization recommendations which optimize limited resources to maximize revenue and customer satisfaction
In addition this role will be responsible for managing the Customer Usage & Analytics Manager ensuring the organization is able to better understand its clients and to identify trends in the market and business opportunities. Key responsibilities will include customer segmentation, data preparation, analysis, statistical modeling and profiling.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Understand and articulate market opportunity in order to drive web services strategy both within the practice of science and the business of science.
2. Encourage sales, customer, prospect and user feedback. Establish a continuous dialogue with customers and other intelligence about the market segment.
3. Understand and develop the distinctive competence of the organisations unique abilities to deliver value to the market in the context of industry trends and competitive landscape.
4. Illustrate, drive and own the vision and key phases of the product roadmap, ensuring prioritisation of product development investments, leveraging customer and user feedback and analysis to direct prioritisation of enhancements to support customer satisfaction, increased usage and other business goals.
5. Manages data mining, research and analysis of client, sales and financial data and overseeing detailed reports to support Product Strategy, Sales or Marketing in their activities.
6. Define repeatable usage reports at a product or client level for both scheduled and ad-hoc reporting activities.
7. Track, analyze and report on product performance.
8. Interact with product strategy, finance, sales and marketing to understand their research or intelligence needs, and provide trend reports, analysis, and insights as required.
9. Maintain and enhance systems and databases used to manipulate data and information.
10. Produce non-standard reports to answer ad-hoc and standard requests.
...
Remember: in any setting, there are clients needing your knowledge of how to obtain, analyse, and manage relavent information. For example, look at item #10 in the job description below - it tells us that we librarians have the right skills and knowledge for positions such as this. -alt-lib
EXCERPTS FOLLOW:
Product Manager, Web Services & Usage Job
Date: Jan 6, 2012
Location: Philadelphia, PA, US
Title: Product Manager, Web Services & Usage
ID: PRO00006513
Description
Web Services & Usage Manager
Main Purpose of Job:
The Scientific & Scholarly Research business of IP & Science provides research and analytic solutions, including Web of Knowledge (WoK), the "gold standard" citation database and search platform, that help scientists and researchers find, analyze, and leverage authoritative scholarly content. Customers include universities, academic and governmental research institutions, scholars and researchers, publishers, and university faculty and administrators.
Reporting to the Director Product Strategy, Search & Discovery as part of the Practice of Science Product & Market Strategy organization, the Product Manager, Web Services & Usage will be responsible for indentifying, developing and driving the organizations web services strategy. This role will be responsible for understanding the current and future market needs and developing a web services strategy and usage data commercialization strategy that will deliver revenue growth for the organization. The Web Services Product Manager is accountable for product ROI and must coordinate a cross-functional team to identify specific investment prioritization recommendations which optimize limited resources to maximize revenue and customer satisfaction
In addition this role will be responsible for managing the Customer Usage & Analytics Manager ensuring the organization is able to better understand its clients and to identify trends in the market and business opportunities. Key responsibilities will include customer segmentation, data preparation, analysis, statistical modeling and profiling.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Understand and articulate market opportunity in order to drive web services strategy both within the practice of science and the business of science.
2. Encourage sales, customer, prospect and user feedback. Establish a continuous dialogue with customers and other intelligence about the market segment.
3. Understand and develop the distinctive competence of the organisations unique abilities to deliver value to the market in the context of industry trends and competitive landscape.
4. Illustrate, drive and own the vision and key phases of the product roadmap, ensuring prioritisation of product development investments, leveraging customer and user feedback and analysis to direct prioritisation of enhancements to support customer satisfaction, increased usage and other business goals.
5. Manages data mining, research and analysis of client, sales and financial data and overseeing detailed reports to support Product Strategy, Sales or Marketing in their activities.
6. Define repeatable usage reports at a product or client level for both scheduled and ad-hoc reporting activities.
7. Track, analyze and report on product performance.
8. Interact with product strategy, finance, sales and marketing to understand their research or intelligence needs, and provide trend reports, analysis, and insights as required.
9. Maintain and enhance systems and databases used to manipulate data and information.
10. Produce non-standard reports to answer ad-hoc and standard requests.
...
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
- Bachelor's Degree with a mimimum of 3 years professional work experience in a technology, science, or product marketing related role.
- Product strategy and commercialization skills.
- A strong technical background and expertise in working with web services and usage data.
- A strong understanding of professional information needs, and the value drivers for end-users and purchasers.
- Experience in discovering unmet needs in a particular market and proposing innovative solutions.
- Proficient in database tools (writing database queries) and statistical analysis tools and MS Office. Advanced Excel with a preference for experience in using specialist data mining tools.
- Strong analytical skills and experience in data collection and qualitative/quantitative research and analysis.
- Ability to work in a matrixed and global environment, ensuring effective collaboration internally.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy with the ability to handle, prioritize and oversee projects to completion.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to interact effectively with internal clients.
- Strong presentational skills with a high degree of comfort of engaging with internal stakeholders up to the Scientific & Scholarly Leadership Team.
- To take responsibility for identifying training and developmental needs for you and your team on an on-going basis.
- To make positive efforts to promote personal safety and that of others by taking reasonable care at work, by carrying out the requirements of the law or following recognised codes of practice provided or advised by management to ensure safe working practices.
- To undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by your line manager/director on a permanent or temporary basis.
- Ability to foresee, interpret and rapidly respond to market changes by adjusting strategies and realigning priorities accordingly.
...
Job: Product Management
Primary Location: US-PA-Philadelphia
Organization: Prof Science - ALL
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
- Bachelor's Degree with a mimimum of 3 years professional work experience in a technology, science, or product marketing related role.
- Product strategy and commercialization skills.
- A strong technical background and expertise in working with web services and usage data.
- A strong understanding of professional information needs, and the value drivers for end-users and purchasers.
- Experience in discovering unmet needs in a particular market and proposing innovative solutions.
- Proficient in database tools (writing database queries) and statistical analysis tools and MS Office. Advanced Excel with a preference for experience in using specialist data mining tools.
- Strong analytical skills and experience in data collection and qualitative/quantitative research and analysis.
- Ability to work in a matrixed and global environment, ensuring effective collaboration internally.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy with the ability to handle, prioritize and oversee projects to completion.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to interact effectively with internal clients.
- Strong presentational skills with a high degree of comfort of engaging with internal stakeholders up to the Scientific & Scholarly Leadership Team.
- To take responsibility for identifying training and developmental needs for you and your team on an on-going basis.
- To make positive efforts to promote personal safety and that of others by taking reasonable care at work, by carrying out the requirements of the law or following recognised codes of practice provided or advised by management to ensure safe working practices.
- To undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by your line manager/director on a permanent or temporary basis.
- Ability to foresee, interpret and rapidly respond to market changes by adjusting strategies and realigning priorities accordingly.
...
Job: Product Management
Primary Location: US-PA-Philadelphia
Organization: Prof Science - ALL
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
alt-lib Suggests: Implementation Manager (OWM)-" Virtual work arrangement for non-local candidates!" -Thomson Reuters
Happened to see this position posted. Information Specialists out there with CPA/ Tax Law experience would probably consider this a good fit:
Implementation Manager (OWM)- Virtual work arrangement for non-local candidates! Job
EXCERPT FOLLOWS..
Title: Implementation Manager (OWM)- Virtual work arrangement for non-local candidates!
ID: PRO00004802
Description
ONESOURCE WorkFlow Manager gives Corporate Tax Departments the ability to standardize, streamline, automate, and track all aspects of corporate tax workflow. This web-hosted system allows the Corporate Tax department to manage their processes, distribute/receive tax data information, store documents in an electronic file room, manage entity information and track all filings through an online tax filing calendar. The workstation component allows for single sign-on for all other tax applications. ONESOURCE WorkFlow Manager helps control business processes through automated workflow with integrated tax document management.
As part of our implementation team, you will have the opportunity to work with our state of the art, web-hosted ONESOURCE WorkFlow Manager Products which include WorkStation, Entity Manager, Tax Calendar, WorkFlow, FileRoom, DataFlow, R&D Tax Credit and Audit Manager modules. In this position you will be responsible for managing implementations of ONESOURCE WorkFlow Manager. The position involves travel throughout the U.S. Candidate must reside in close proximity of a major airport.
... [FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF POSITION OMMITTED; SEE LINK TO FULL JOB DESC BELOW]..
Implementation Manager (OWM)- Virtual work arrangement for non-local candidates! Job
EXCERPT FOLLOWS..
Date: Jan 15, 2012
Location: Montvale, NJ, US
Title: Implementation Manager (OWM)- Virtual work arrangement for non-local candidates!
ID: PRO00004802
Description
ONESOURCE WorkFlow Manager gives Corporate Tax Departments the ability to standardize, streamline, automate, and track all aspects of corporate tax workflow. This web-hosted system allows the Corporate Tax department to manage their processes, distribute/receive tax data information, store documents in an electronic file room, manage entity information and track all filings through an online tax filing calendar. The workstation component allows for single sign-on for all other tax applications. ONESOURCE WorkFlow Manager helps control business processes through automated workflow with integrated tax document management.
As part of our implementation team, you will have the opportunity to work with our state of the art, web-hosted ONESOURCE WorkFlow Manager Products which include WorkStation, Entity Manager, Tax Calendar, WorkFlow, FileRoom, DataFlow, R&D Tax Credit and Audit Manager modules. In this position you will be responsible for managing implementations of ONESOURCE WorkFlow Manager. The position involves travel throughout the U.S. Candidate must reside in close proximity of a major airport.
... [FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF POSITION OMMITTED; SEE LINK TO FULL JOB DESC BELOW]..
QualificationsQualifications
- Four-year college degree is required/MBA is prefered with a preference in Accounting/Information Technology.
- At least seven plus years of experience
- Experience working in a corporate tax department or in a CPA firm working with corporate tax departments
- Project management and analytical skills
- Ability to manage multiple engagements concurrently
- Ability to interface with all organizational levels
- Experience in working with clients management staff
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills with strict attention to detail
- Understanding of general business and tax department processes
- High proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, with strong background in Excel and data manipulation
- Related work experience in using document and workflow software
- Experience in working with clients
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- Tax department process and improvement review experience a plus
- Four-year college degree is required/MBA is prefered with a preference in Accounting/Information Technology.
- At least seven plus years of experience
- Experience working in a corporate tax department or in a CPA firm working with corporate tax departments
- Project management and analytical skills
- Ability to manage multiple engagements concurrently
- Ability to interface with all organizational levels
- Experience in working with clients management staff
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills with strict attention to detail
- Understanding of general business and tax department processes
- High proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, with strong background in Excel and data manipulation
- Related work experience in using document and workflow software
- Experience in working with clients
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- Tax department process and improvement review experience a plus
Sunday, January 8, 2012
A Budget Cut, That Comes First
2011 started out quite strangely. I was accustomed to preparing a budget, explaining it to my Engineer-manager, getting push-back from him, and then eventually after more push-back from the management above him, and after related adjustment in the quotes from some of my vendors, usually I could start processing orders by mid-February (no renewals the year before, in this company! :-) )
Instead, when I sat down with my manager in early January, he seemed to give the entire budget a 'green light,' even the wish-list items that I had included mostly to give me something to cut, in the negotiations I expected to have. And a few days later, he went on vacation, for the latter half of January. The usual negotiation of my budget, up the management reporting chain, had not occurred yet.
Not wanting to get behind schedule with my orders, I started submitting my purchase order requests. The admin staff I was submitting them to told me they could not process them because the entire budget for the organization had not been determined yet. (This was also strange).
I happened to be friendly with the person who maintained the financial records (basically, she's a bookkeeper) for the larger organization, that funded me. I checked in with her for the real "low down" on what was going on. She told me that although the apportionment of my funding was up to the VP above my manager, it looked like my budget would be cut by a dollar figure, that was equal to 27% of the amount I had been budgeted the previous year (getting a flat or slightly reduced budget was normal, but not a reduction like that. And as most librarians know, the services we purchase increase per year, no matter what the economic conditions, on average about 6%.) I got this word late in January, and my manager was still on vacation. The 30-day grace period most of my online vendors would give me was expiring in less than a week. I started scrambling to get major reductions, eliminate some services altogether, and generally re-balance the suite of services.
When my manager returned from his vacation, he heard from me about the budget cut. He seemed genuinely surprised that it had happened. However, that doesn't really explain why he had "green-lighted" it, in the first place.
For the next three or so weeks, he and I worked very intensely, pushing the vendors to the wall, and getting legal review of our contracts, for loopholes that would permit us to walk away from online services packaged subscriptions, without penalty. It looked like the budget was going to come together by perhaps the third week in February.
Something personal came up, and I took the afternoon of Friday February 11 off, as vacation.
My manager usually did not schedule meetings the same day that he held them. But on the following Monday, my manager said he needed me to come to his office at 1pm.
Instead, when I sat down with my manager in early January, he seemed to give the entire budget a 'green light,' even the wish-list items that I had included mostly to give me something to cut, in the negotiations I expected to have. And a few days later, he went on vacation, for the latter half of January. The usual negotiation of my budget, up the management reporting chain, had not occurred yet.
Not wanting to get behind schedule with my orders, I started submitting my purchase order requests. The admin staff I was submitting them to told me they could not process them because the entire budget for the organization had not been determined yet. (This was also strange).
I happened to be friendly with the person who maintained the financial records (basically, she's a bookkeeper) for the larger organization, that funded me. I checked in with her for the real "low down" on what was going on. She told me that although the apportionment of my funding was up to the VP above my manager, it looked like my budget would be cut by a dollar figure, that was equal to 27% of the amount I had been budgeted the previous year (getting a flat or slightly reduced budget was normal, but not a reduction like that. And as most librarians know, the services we purchase increase per year, no matter what the economic conditions, on average about 6%.) I got this word late in January, and my manager was still on vacation. The 30-day grace period most of my online vendors would give me was expiring in less than a week. I started scrambling to get major reductions, eliminate some services altogether, and generally re-balance the suite of services.
When my manager returned from his vacation, he heard from me about the budget cut. He seemed genuinely surprised that it had happened. However, that doesn't really explain why he had "green-lighted" it, in the first place.
For the next three or so weeks, he and I worked very intensely, pushing the vendors to the wall, and getting legal review of our contracts, for loopholes that would permit us to walk away from online services packaged subscriptions, without penalty. It looked like the budget was going to come together by perhaps the third week in February.
Something personal came up, and I took the afternoon of Friday February 11 off, as vacation.
My manager usually did not schedule meetings the same day that he held them. But on the following Monday, my manager said he needed me to come to his office at 1pm.
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