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Company Description

Publicis Re:Sources is the backbone of Publicis Groupe, the world’s most valuable agency group. We are the only full-service, end-to-end shared service organization in the industry, enabling Groupe agencies to do what they do best: innovate and transform for their clients.

Formed in 1998 as a small team to service a few Publicis Groupe firms, Publicis Re:Sources has grown to 5,000+ employees in over 66 countries. We provide technology solutions and business services including finance, accounting, legal, benefits, procurement, tax, real estate, treasury and risk management.

We continually transform to keep pace with our ever-changing communications industry and thrive on a spirit of innovation felt around the globe. Learn more about Publicis Re:Sources and the Publicis Groupe agencies we support at http://www.publicisresources.com/.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager who has a rich experience in the PPM & Proofing domains to join our expanding Product Team, responsible for delivering the Publicis Groupe’s PPM & Proofing capabilities using Workfront & Workfront Proof. Your primary responsibilities will be focused on modelling the Publicis’ PPM & Proofing requirements to Adobe Workfront, identifying product gaps, configuring Workfront using standard and custom product capabilities, creating functional and configuration designs and implementation documents, etc.

In order to achieve this, you must have a proven track record to:

• Collaborate with, persuade and influence our customers to ensure the right solution is agreed as too the ability to manage multiple feature requests at one time.

• Analyze complex requirements, translating these into functional user stories and delivering first class product features within a high volume, fast paced, agile software development team.

• Work closely with a technical team to ensure the requirements are clearly understood and correctly implemented

• Ample experience in carrying out quality assurance.

This is a global role, with a global customer base. The ability to flex your working pattern, on occasion, in order to accommodate customer meetings across the globe would be beneficial.

Highlight day-to-day activities of the position:

• As Product Owner

• Own the end to end delivery of each feature assigned, ensuring delivery on time, to include:

• Creating & Maintenance of roadmap

• Backlog refinement / grooming

• Attending daily stand ups for your feature

• Reporting of risks/issues where applicable

• Gathering and analysing customers’ requirements

• Recording the requirements in a BRD

• Scheduling and leading the feature review meeting to explain the requirements to the dev and design team

• Agreeing the solution with the team

• Creating functional specifications

• Testing the solution draft or wireframes early with customers to get early feedback

• Prioritisation of the user stories and gaining sign off of the specification

• Passing any design docs and requirements to developers

• Writing or where applicable reviewing and approving test scripts

• Testing the solutions

• Preparing release notes

• Training the Production Support team and users

• Carrying out demonstrations of the new feature or the product as required

• Triaging any bugs during UAT of the deliverable

• Gaining sign off from the customer for release to Production

• Carry out data analysis to review product usage and review customer feedback.

• Review competitor products and new technology to keep abreast of software developments.

• Build and test Adobe Workfront reports per the customer’s reporting requirements.

Specify how the position fits into the organization:

Re:Sources is Publicis’ support organisation to centralise the finance, administrative, legal, tax, IT, procurement and property functions and leave the units, e.g. agencies, to do what they do best in terms of looking after the client's business.

Our team, rOar, resides in various countries. Our clients are the agencies within the Publicis Groupe.

Our product, rOar, is Publicis Groupe’s Project Management, Resource Management, Time Tracking and Proofing tool, among other things. rOar v2.0 is being built with Adobe’s Workfront as a central PPM and Proofing solution along with Publicis business custom applications and SAP ecosystem integrated to it.

The rOar team is responsible for configuring Workfront, Workfront Proof, building custom Saas solutions around it and integrating our solution with other systems.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager who has a rich experience in the Production, PPM & Proofing domains to join our expanding rOar Product Team, responsible for delivering the Publicis Groupe’s PPM & Proofing capabilities using Workfront .

Qualifications

• Expertise in Workfront including Workfront Proof

• Experience in other PPM & Proofing tools will be a big plus.

• Experienced in working on an integrated platform where information is interfaced from & to the PPM& Proofing tool

• Experienced in Product Management, Configuration, Deployment and Maintenance of software solutions

• Awareness of Generative AI and the impact this has in production, PPM & proofing is nice to have

• Experience working in Agile & Waterfall methodologies

• Good communication

• Stakeholder Management

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) currently in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at-will" relations.