Product Planner

The Product Planner is part of a highly cross functional team spanning across Xerox’s business functions that include R&D, Portfolio Management, Supply Chain, Professional Services, Sales, and Marketing to drive Xerox’s brand and product life cycle.

A successful candidate enables successful product delivery through organizational leadership and information management, starting from product conceptualization until release.

Growth opportunities:

• Technical knowledge of the development processes in the entire product development life cycle.
• Enable successful delivery to customers through efficient and effective information management.
• Visibility to global program development and participation in various decision-making discussions with different levels of leadership.
• Network with cross functional teams across the organization from product conception to launch/release.
• Expand leadership breadth and influence by working with stakeholders across the organization while aligning development teams with the business requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support product development programs from concept through launch and sustaining, ensuring alignment with business objectives, schedules, and milestones.
• Coordinate program execution by tracking progress, managing risks, and driving timely resolution of issues.
• Maintain accurate product information, requirements, and documentation throughout the product lifecycle.
• Serve as a central point of coordination for product data, ensuring consistency across business, marketing, engineering, and operational functions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Services, Sales, and Marketing, to align deliverables and priorities.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication, governance reviews, and decision-making processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product planning, information management, and product lifecycle management processes.

Key Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or project management field.
• At least 3-5 years' experience directly related to project management.
• Practical experience and knowledge in managing the product development lifecycle.
• Highly organized with a demonstrated ability to track progress, drive actions, and communicate requirement as well as progress reports.
• Collaboration skills, along with the ability to negotiate required timelines among competing priorities.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to work with and across various groups and levels of management within the organization.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and influence others towards a common goal.
• Able to analyze complex ideas or requirements and distill them into functional and sustainable processes.
• A demonstrated ability to learn and use various project management tools is required.