Associate Product Manager

IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More than 1,100 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries worldwide. For 50 years IDC has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC’s Insights businesses provide industry-focused advice for IT buyers in the Financial, Government, Health, Retail, Manufacturing and Energy verticals. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the worlds leading technology media, research, and events company. You can learn more about IDC by visiting www.idc.com.

This position will be responsible for supporting product methodology changes that will allow this research product to grow and keep up with the market. As well as managing a small team of coordinators to ensure we can keep up with operational demand.

• Initiate, coordinate, and close projects based on a formal prescribed procedure
• Create and monitor project schedules, including maintaining action logs
• Train research analysts on a specific methodology and answer questions as they arise
• Train project coordinators and analysts on the methodology changes
• Support initiatives to enhance overall methodology
• Communicate & interact with IDC clients related to teams project needs
• Communicate & interact with IDC analysts, sales and product management related to methodology
• Ability to review the end reports that are developed by analysts for Product Manager review
• Manage small team of Project Coordinators

• Applicants should have at least 5 years working experience as project specialist/project coordinator. 1 year working on product management projects as well as 1 year managing another employees workload.
• Willing to work 7pm to 4am shift local time in Manila to maximize overlap with U.S time zones
• Ability to communicate and interact with many different personalities and roles within and outside the organization
• Extremely organized, good with time management and communicates succinctly and often
• Willingness to identify areas of need and to be able to assist by taking on many different types of project activities
• Experience building out training materials and delivering training programs in an organization
• Reliable
• Excellent English language skill – spoken and written
• Strong writing skills with the ability to synthesize various inputs into a written format
• Anticipates and heads off problems that can jeopardize deadlines
• Personal time management with the ability to juggle multiple, competing priorities
• Basic research skills and knowledge