Product Manager

Role - Product Manager

Location- Bangalore 

About the Company:                                                                              

 UPL is focused on emerging as a premier global provider of total crop solutions designed to secure the world’s long-term food supply. Winning farmers hearts across the globe, while leading the way with innovative products and services that make agriculture sustainable, UPL is the fastest growing company in the industry. UPL has a rich history of 50+ years with presence in 120+ countries. Based on the recognition that humankind is one community, UPL’s overarching commitment is to improve areas of its presence, workplace, and customer engagement.

Our purpose is ‘OpenAg’. An Open agriculture network that feeds sustainable growth for all. No limits, no borders.  In order to create sustainable food chain, UPL is now working to build a future-ready, analytics-driven organization that will be even more efficient, more innovative, and more agile. “Center for Digital Transformation” works on some disruptive projects that will have an impact that matters for the planet. It will help us reimagine our business to ensure the best outcomes for growers, consumers, employees, and our planet.  Work with us to get exposure to cutting-edge solutions in digital & advanced analytics, mentorship from senior leaders & domain experts, and access to a great work environment.

About the Job:

This position is vital to our ongoing and future projects, particularly in the areas of analytics, data platform, and project management. We are seeking a mid-level professional with approximately 6-9 years of experience who can contribute their expertise and leadership to our team.

·       Define and manage analytics and digital adoption strategy across multiple businesses

·       Lead the design and development of analytical, AI/ML, application solutions to support business growth, efficiency and decision-making.

·       Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of tech projects, ensuring alignment with project goals and timelines.

·       Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their analytical needs and translate them into actionable insights.

·       Manage project risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies and solutions to keep projects on track.

·       Work closely with business teams to develop and implement analytics solutions

·       Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers & architects to implement and deploy scalable solutions

·       Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

·       Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project delivery and team performance.

Education Qualification:

·       Master’s degree in technology, Computer Science, Statistics, Math, Operations Research, Economics, or a related field.

·       Sound theoretical and practical knowledge of working with advanced analytics platforms

·       At least 4 years of experience working in product management managing global stakeholders and at least 2 years of managing AI / ML / analytics products / enterprise applications

·       Strong business understanding and exposure to developing analytics solutions in 3-4 domains.

Required skills:

·       Ability to lead teams in agile environments, with multiple stakeholders involved

·       Ability to effectively communicate complex technical content to non-technical audience

·       Successful track record of structuring and leading complex analytics projects

·       Proactive and passionate about resolving pain points through great design

·       Sees value in iterative approach to model development

·       Strong sense of ownership and ability to build consensus

·       Believes in culture of transparency and trust

What’s in it for you?

·       Disruptive projects:  Work on ‘breakthrough’ digital-and-analytics projects to enable UPL’s vision of building a future ready organization. It involves deploying solutions to help us increase our sales, sustain our profitability, improve our speed to market, supercharge our R&D efforts, and support the way we work internally. Help us ensure we have access to the best business insights that our data analysis can offer us.

·       Cross functional leadership exposure: Work directly under guidance of functional leadership at UPL, on the most critical business problems for the organization (and the industry) today. It will give you exposure to a large cross-functional team (e.g.: spanning manufacturing, procurement, commercial, quality, IT/OT experts), allowing multi-functional learning in D&A (Digital & Analytics) deployment

·       Environment fostering professional and personal development: Strengthen professional learning in a highly impact-oriented and meritocratic environment that is focused on delivering disproportionate business value through innovative solutions. It will be supported by on-the-job coaching from experienced domain experts, and continuous feedback from a highly motivated and capable set of peers. Comprehensive training programs for continuous development through UPL's D&A academy will help in accelerating growth opportunities.