Product Manager - Partner Portfolio - US Tax - Manager

Specialty/Competency: Project / Program Management

Industry/Sector: Not Applicable

Time Type: Full time

Travel Requirements: Not Specified

The Innovation Team is at the core of innovation and emerging technology development, discovery, deployment and support activity. Our team is leading the effort to digitally enable our business. Our mission is to develop disruptive & innovative technologies and products that drive the evolution of how we deliver our services now and in the future. The key technology domains we are currently focused on include business process automation, data curation, industrialized analytics, machine learning & AI and scalable delivery platform.

A career in our Innovation Project Management practice, within Innovation Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients' redesign, redefine, and redeploy their assurance and/or tax departments to be a strategic asset across the enterprise. You'll focus on assisting clients as they incorporate increased automation, machine learning, data & analytics, Open Source technologies into their processes to deliver better quality output and contribute more strategically to organisational decision making.

Our team is responsible for strategic market priorities such as improving communication and process improvement initiatives to achieve innovative, optimise d, cost effective, and efficient models for delivering service to our clients.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.

• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.

• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.

• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.

• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.

• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.

• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.

• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.

• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.

• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Degree Required:

Bachelor's Degree

Additional Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's degree or in lieu of a degree, demonstrating, in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college.

Minimum Year(s) of Experience:

5 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree Preferred:

Master's Degree

Preferred Fields of Study:

Analytics,Artificial Intelligence and Robotics,Business Analytics,Computer and Information Science,Computer Engineering,Management Information Systems,Mathematics

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader managing the development and utilization of technology, emphasizing the following areas:

• Managing projects by defining and achieving project outcomes and meeting project key performance metric targets;

• Utilizing and applying into projects knowledge of IT implementation and maintenance, learning initiatives, operations reporting, metrics, marketing and communications;

• Exploring new technologies & assembling and managing product teams by working closely with engineering team and stakeholders;

• Working in small multidisciplinary teams to help build products that are beneficial to our consultants and their clients;

• Demonstrating flexibility by working to define requirements while simultaneously designing for those requirements;

• Establishing a successful collaboration model with business leadership teams and functional leadership teams;

• Developing and maintaining relationships with key management within significant vendor organizations and leveraging those relationships to solve any relationship issues and to stay current with technology and other developments within those companies;

• Presenting at meetings and conferences to create awareness of product strategy and generate excitement for future business opportunities;

• Providing valuable stakeholder feedback to address and taking action to meet the firm's strategic goals;

• Representing stakeholders and setting product and project vision;

• Working with the development team, by creating and managing a product road-map;

• Prioritizing new features/development and establishing execution is completed;

• Managing/coaching small multidisciplinary product teams and collaborating with designers, business users, and developers to innovate and drive product development;

• Being an influential voice on behalf of the customer (our consultants and their clients) constantly thinking about their needs and the reflection of those needs in the products we deliver; and,

• Producing visual prototype and functions.

Learn more about how we work: /pwc. to/how-we-work

PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: /pwc. to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. PwC is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

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