by Ronald Barron | Aug 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Procurement Portfolio Leader-Finance & Accounting
Location: Remote US, United States
Category: General Management & Strategy
Req ID: 2023-83641
Job Type: Full-time regular
About Conduent:
Through our dedicated associates, Conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments – creating exceptional outcomes for our clients and the millions of people who count on them. You have an opportunity to personally thrive, make a difference and be part of a culture where individuality is noticed and valued every day.
Job Description:
Senior Director, Portfolio Leader
About the Role
The Sr. Director, Portfolio Leader will manage and grow the Finance Accounting & Procurement Outsourcing business. This person will have direct profit/loss responsibilities for the group and be responsible for the product roadmap. They will ensure the solutions are delivered that meets or exceeds client expectations. They will also achieve short- and long-term goals for financial performance, operating efficiency, client satisfaction and growth of the business.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrating sound business judgment, innovation in approaching business challenges and the ability to translate a strategic plan into operating results.
- Spearheading the development, communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and processes.
- Developing annual long-range profit and strategic plans necessary to ensure future sales and profit growth.
- Anticipating and alerts the senior executive team of financial issues and opportunities within the designated business units.
- Motivating and leads a high-performing team. Attract, recruit and retain top talent and provides mentoring and development as a cornerstone for succession planning.
- Driving signings growth by partnering with Account Managers and Sales Executives in established and new accounts
- Representing the organization. Establishes and maintains effective relationships with internal and external constituents, including consultants, analysts, and advisors.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in management roles of increasing responsibility. Also have demonstrated experience managing a services business with full P&L responsibility of at least $75M with over 2,000 global employees.
- Have the flexibility to navigate successfully in a highly matrixed, rapidly changing organization. Maintaining the highest degree of integrity, and ethical behavior.
- Have an open, collaborative leadership style. Demonstrate the ability to listen and synthesize complex information into actionable insights; and to inspire self and others. This will show outstanding business results within a highly matrixed environment.
- Demonstrate the ability to establish immediate credibility with prospects, clients, and business partners. Must have exceptional communication skills and good knowledge of the finance, accounting, and procurement outsourcing space.
- Have a successful record of managing and enhancing client relationships to ensure client satisfaction. Also have the instinctive ability to qualify leads. (a “nose” for what business to chase)
- Be able to show commitment to creating an environment in which every member of the team can be successful. Specifically, a great focus on efficiency, effectiveness, and quality.
- Possess a positive attitude grounded in reality.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Director, Global Alliance Manager
Location: Remote, United States
Position Summary:
Provides strategic direction across PfM to ensure compliance and consistent delivery for alliance partner. Responsible for managing Precision Lab customer relationships and supporting project delivery teams in a client- facing role, as well as developing and implementing the systems, processes, and tools to enable effective account review and collaboration across teams, sites, and businesses within Precision.
This role operates within Precision’s Project Management function and is focused on Alliance Management for lab services across multiple Precision lab sites and service areas. Works with alliance management leadership to support functional leads and employees to ensure operational excellence, consistency, quality, innovation, and learning across the portfolio of work. May be responsible for assisting with and/or coordination of alliance partnership training, communications, governance materials, tracking operational or partnership metrics/goals. May serve as a liaison with Business Development for customer presentations and proposal development. Alliance Managers have accountability for alliance partnerships to ensure portfolio delivery to contract and partner expectations, inclusive of operational, quality, and financial standards. Collaborates and influences functional leads and other key internal stakeholders on operational and strategic priorities to promote collaboration and creativity. Influences internal operations to minimize potential for risk and maximize customer satisfaction.
Essential Information:
- Establishes policies and procedures appropriate for the function. Interprets and recommends modifications to company-wide policies and practices. Develops and is responsible for budgets, schedules, and performance standards
- Objectives are defined in collaboration with senior management and results assessed from a relatively long- term perspective
- Interacts with senior management, and others concerning matters of significance to the company. Conducts business and technical briefings for senior and top management and for external management and/or representatives
Responsibilities:
- Communicates alliance and partnership expectations, applicable corporate goals, key customer specific updates, Master Service Agreement(s) (MSAs) terms and customer-specific rules of engagement as it relates to overall program, project or service-level delivery
- Creates, compiles, and manages operational, quality and financial standards by utilizing systems, tools and reports to identify trends in risks and/or issues (i.e., key performance indicators, key quality indicators, key relationship indicators, etc.) that present opportunities to leverage risk mitigation or PfM solutions across the portfolio and/or a single study/contract
- Ensures timely and thorough follow-up to actions identified at alliance or partnership level
- Partners with cross functional leadership on the continuous development and improvement of business processes to support teams and to ensure that work is uniform, complete, and managed appropriately
- Develops excellent working relationships with internal colleagues and leaders responsible for the delivery of projects and services to improve information exchange, project delivery, and understanding between groups.
Ensures coordination across geographies, laboratory sites, and functions and achieves superior delivery of projects and services
- Assist Business Development team to enable business expansion of the portfolio (e.g. bid defenses and capability meetings)
Qualifications: Education:
Bachelor’s degree in a life science or related field (e.g. engineering), plus a minimum of 12 years of project management experience and a minimum of 5 years of customer management responsibility and advanced leadership skills; in some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role. Advanced degree preferred
Other Required:
- Outstanding leadership and management skills with reputation as emerging leader with sustained performance and accomplishment
- Excellent judgment and decision-making skills
- Effective oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing
- Strategic negotiation, marketing, and organizational skills
- Superior knowledge of project management principles and application
- Extensive financial acumen with broad knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and resource management
- Knowledge of regulatory guidelines and directives
- Proven skills in process improvement
- Knowledge of laboratory and laboratory terminology
- Able to read, write, and fluently speak and comprehend the English language
- Proven track record of being a team player, willing to interact proactively and productively
- Must possess a valid driver’s license; must be able to travel both domestically and internationally, including overnight stays (~25%)
Preferred:
- Master’s or PhD in Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, or related field
- Experience in cellular, molecular, or biochemical science such as hands-on research or lab experience in cellular biomarker analysis, protein-based assays, next-generation sequencing, IHC, or PK/PD assays
- Experience with project management software
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Product Manager, Product Growth (Remote)
REMOTE
Description
We’re looking for an evidence-based, customer-centric, and inventive Product Manager to join our growing product org. In this position, you will play a key role in our product-led growth and self-serve initiatives as part of our Product Growth team. This team is the welcoming committee, wholeheartedly invested in facilitating a seamless and effective initiation for all our new users into the Fleetio family. Our goal is to ensure that our new users are well-acquainted with our platform and primed for success through productized and personalized onboarding experiences.
Reporting to the Director of Product Management You should be thrilled at the prospect of constructing growth loops, delving into rich data for insight, formulating hypotheses, and conducting ongoing experiments to align users with our platform’s inherent value. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop remarkable product onboarding experiences and journeys to help us reshape fleet management.
If this sounds like a good fit for you, we’d love to hear from you.
What you’ll be doing
- Drive the product growth plan and roadmap, including productized onboarding, product guidance, and expansion/upgrade experiences.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with research, design, engineering, data science, marketing, and customer-facing teams to develop successful strategies and make informed decisions.
- Ensure the evolution of Fleetio’s self-serve experience is customer-driven, data-informed, and designed to with our goals around conversion, activation, adoption, engagement, and retention.
- Foster a culture of impact, collaboration, risk-taking, experimentation, segmentation, iteration, learning, and sound decision-making.
- Continuously generate and test hypotheses to iterate and improve the onboarding experience.
- Effectively communicate product vision, value proposition, trade-offs, risks, opportunities, learnings, insights, and roadmap updates to stakeholders, executives, and customers.
- Work closely with your team to find ways to make our development process more efficient in delivering high-quality features to customers quickly.
- Guide features through their entire creative cycle: Discovery, ideation, specification, test, delivery, launch / GTM, analysis, and optimization.
- Demonstrate initiative and ability to turn business priorities, key themes, and big ideas into a roadmap with minimal guidance.
- Identify opportunities for differentiation, zero-to-one innovation, and revenue expansion.
- Deeply understand and advocate for product-led growth (PLG) and product-led sales (PLS).
- Raise the bar for product quality based on strong evidence.
This is a position we consider essential to the company’s success. Be sure to mention coffee in your cover letter so we know you actually read this.
What’s in it for you
- Work on products used by hundreds of thousands of users around the world, including drivers, technicians, head mechanics, fleet managers, and execs.
- Be a part of an incredible team of A players who go above and beyond to make Fleetio a successful company. We’re a customer-centric team with a great product, excellent support, and countless happy customers.
- Work remotely (within the United States), or at our Birmingham, AL HQ. We strive to promote a strong remote working culture and have done so since the beginning.
Requirements
- 3-5 years in product management, focused on product growth / product-led growth / product-led sales in modern, technology-driven B2B SaaS environments.
- BA/BS/MS in Computer Science, Business, Design, or related equivalent field/experience.
- Quantitative business acumen to take our growth engine to the next level.
- In-depth knowledge of product growth best practices and fluency with data.
- Passion for customer & business success, shortening time to value, and the craft of PM.
- A committed desire to understand our users and rally around the problems we’re solving.
- Effective at integrating feedback, facts, and needs into product recommendations, decisions, strategies, and launch execution across the product life-cycle.
- Natural leadership skills you influence and inspire others who love working with you.
- A proven track record of strong cross-functional collaboration.
- An entrepreneurial spirit you are self-driven, accountable, and comfortable presenting to customers, prospects, partners, and stakeholders.
- Egoless self-starter with great product sense, curiosity, attention to detail, and a growth mindset.
- Talent for mediating across various needs, and finding creative solutions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data and insights into actionable product strategies and decisions.
- Champion our core values of intelligence, intensity, integrity, and ownership.
Considered a plus
- Experience in fleet / automotive / transportation software, vertical SaaS, or related space.
- Experience in a range of segments and product life cycle stages, including optimizing mature products and building zero-to-one.
- Experience with hybrid PLG (product-led growth) and SLG (sales-led growth) products.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Coordinator, Digital Ad Operations
Remote
Contracted
Media Solutions Ad Operations
Entry Level
Blavity, Inc. is a venture-funded media and technology company, founded in 2014 around a simple idea: enable Black millennials to tell their own stories. Today, we are home to the largest network of platforms and lifestyle brands serving the multifaceted lives of Black millennials & Gen Z through original content, video, unique experiences, and product solutions. Blavity Inc. has evolved into a market leader for Black media, reaching 250 million users per month through our growing brand portfolio, including Blavity, Blavity360, Shadow & Act, AfroTech & Talent Infusion, 21Ninety, Travel Noire, and Home & Texture. Our Blavity, Inc. employee community is composed of passionate, energetic, and culturally conscious individuals working together to deliver value to each other, the company, and our clients. We are always searching for new additions to our community that will help us continue to scale, contribute meaningfully to our culture, and advance our strategic direction.
Job Summary:
Blavity’s Ad Operations team is seeking a driven, dynamic, and results-oriented individual with interest in advertising, project management, and data analytics to join our team as an Ad Operations Coordinator. This entry-level, W2 (contract) position will work closely with the Blavity Sales and Customer Service teams. This individual will be expected to learn quickly and handle a number of simultaneous ad operations tasks, while keeping a detail-oriented approach.
Contracted workers will be responsible for providing their own equipment, including but not limited to laptop computers, cell phones, or any other electronic equipment required to perform their role.
Responsibilities:
- Generate weekly campaign reporting and make recommendations for optimizations.
- Provide reports to Client Services and Sales teams.
- Generate impression and revenue reporting.
- Proactively review campaign assets (Creatives, IOs and tags), identify potential errors, and troubleshoot as necessary.
- Traffic Newsletters.
- Set-up and troubleshoot programmatic campaigns (PG, PMP and Preferred Deals).
- Work closely with Client Services, Ad Operations, and Sales teams to ensure direct and programmatic campaigns start on time.
- Participate in internal team discussions and manage internal task assignments that will help grow the team and enhance workflow processes
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
- Required Experience:
- 1-2 years experience in Publisher Advertising Operations
- 1-2 years experience using Google Suite to traffic, troubleshoot, manage and optimize campaigns
- Preferred Experience:
- A strong track-record of supporting Sales teams operationally, as well as successfully aiding remote teams across multiple time zones.
- An understanding of rich media and standard advertising formats including their setup and implementation
- Technologies: Fluent in Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Google Ad Manager, Staq, SSP dashboard; advanced level data and spreadsheet skills
- Additional Qualifications:
- Independent, entrepreneurial self-starter who is comfortable taking on a high level of responsibility
- Comfort with ambiguity and a proven love for transforming unorganized/complex data into rigorously structured, insight-oriented solutions
- High-energy, company first, positive attitude: must be motivated to work hard in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication and analytical skills; outgoing and sociable; willing to wear multiple hats
- Naturally detail oriented, with an obsessive need to document and communicate findings
- A healthy appreciation of GIFs and black culture
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Product Designer
(Remote)
REMOTE
Full time
Design is integral to Fleetio’s culture and how we build products together. One of our core beliefs as a company is “Design is an important part of everything we do.”
As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful yet pragmatic software interfaces that our customers will love to use. You’ll rely on user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals from concept to execution, and craft new user experiences that help solve complex problems. You’ll collaborate with other product designers, engineers, and product managers to continually refine and iterate the Fleetio design language.
Our ideal candidate is a creative powerhouse, energized by the mission to make each user’s first encounter with Fleetio an impactful, memorable, and rewarding experience. You will rely on user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals from concept to execution and craft new solutions for complex problems. You will collaborate with other product designers, engineers, and product managers to continually refine and iterate the Fleetio design language system.
If you are a creative, driven, and passionate designer who intentionally puts yourself in customers’ shoes and thinks deeply about improving their experience, we would love to hear from you!
Duties:
- Design and help implement features that ship quickly and with high quality
- Create detailed mocks/specs of designs that follow and extend the existing style guide to allow engineers to build new features
- Raise the bar for product quality across our products by advocating for user-centered product roadmaps, new interface guidelines and design patterns, investments in refinement, polish and iteration, and insights driven by user research and customer feedback
- Develop deep empathy for our customers and use research to inform design solutions
- Compellingly communicate and present design solutions, across a range of mediums and fidelities, to stakeholders and other product designers, while defending design decisions and incorporating feedback into the design cycle
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Engineering and Marketing teams to solve complex problems through discovery, humanize product ideas and develop these ideas into modern, simple and intuitive application designs and features
- Partner with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation and user experience
This is a position we consider essential to the company’s success. Be sure to mention coffee in your cover letter so we know you actually read this.
What’s in it for you
- Design digital products used by thousands of users around the world. So many different types of companies and organizations operate a fleet each day, and Fleetio is a good fit for most of them (it’s a huge market).
- Be a part of an incredible team of “A” players who go above and beyond to make Fleetio a successful company. We’re a customer-centric team with a great product, excellent support, and countless happy customers.
- Work remotely (within the United States), or at our Birmingham, AL HQ. We strive to promote a strong remote working culture and have done so since the beginning.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise with 5+ years of professional work experience within a SaaS environment focusing on product design and/or user interface design in web
- BA/BS degree in Design is highly preferred
- Proven abilities in quickly acquiring deep customer understanding, demonstrating strong empathy, and effectively translating these insights into actionable steps for product design improvements
- Exceptional command and leadership in visual design and information architecture, coupled with a keen sense of simplicity, deep understanding of modern web UI patterns, and an extraordinary eye for typography, consistency, color, and subtle details
- Advanced understanding of user-centered design thinking and the ability to integrate products/services across a platform, thinking beyond individual screens and considering the broader context of design systems
- Proficiency in effectively communicating design concepts at various levels of resolution, including sketches, low-fi mockups, hi-fi comps, and interactive prototypes, highlighting strong visual communication skills
- Extensive experience in collaborating cross-functionally with research, design, product, engineering, data science, and marketing teams to develop successful strategies and make informed decisions
- Proven track record of bringing projects from concept to completion, showcasing the ability to design and ship software products successfully
- Expert-level proficiency with modern design tools such as Figma and Sketch, enabling the creation of wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach mid-level designers, illustrating leadership and expertise in guiding and developing the skills of others
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