Product Development Manager

What you will do:

• Drive the product- and business-planning processes for cross-functional teams
• Analyze customer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships
• Assess current competitor offerings and seek opportunities for differentiation
• Analyze product requirements and develop appropriate programs to ensure they’re met
• Develop, implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate go-to-market plans

Market Insights

• Leading the research and analysis of the AFF business channels
• Manage and challenge the business entities’ sales planning objectives and actions through reporting.
• Provide thought leadership to all stakeholders on emerging topics such as e-mobility, ownership autonomous driving and the resulting risks and opportunities to the Al Futtaim Financial Services.
• Drive and evolve insightful market / competitor / economic reporting, demonstrating significant depth of knowledge and increasing the quality of information provided to senior management.
• Devise and develop enhanced analytics applications, to deliver both market and business insights through the design, development and maintenance of management reporting.
• Use expertly defined KPIs which are aligned to Strategy 2023 objectives to measure business entity performance and facilitate value-add discussions across the Group based on these insights.