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The Product Manager will support the product & technology strategy and develop plans to accelerate customer adoption and business growth. The Product Manager will also contribute to the overall commercial and technical strategy for Aspen Tech’s family of Production Optimization solutions.
Aspen GDOT is the leading Dynamic Real-time Optimization solution in the world. Implementations of GDOT started in 2008 and since then the technology has been implemented on a global basis. Aspen GDOT is a central component of Aspen Tech’s integrated Production Optimization solution, along with Aspen Unified PIMS (Planning), Aspen Unified Scheduling, Aspen Unified Reconciliation and Accounting and Aspen DMC3 (Advanced Process Control). This is the leading Production Optimization solution available in the Petroleum and Chemicals market, providing integrated solutions for continuous and batch process industries, along with the information management infrastructure optimization and control solutions needed the for the optimal and safe operation of process facilities.
As Aspen APC and GDOT Product Manager, you will be working closely with the Manufacturing and Supply Chain product management, marketing, and R&D teams, as well as other Aspen Tech product teams, such as Performance Engineering and Data Sciences.

• Align the business strategy for your product line with evolving market and customer needs, engaging with users and stakeholders at all levels in customer organizations to research market needs and create the business case for new products and enhancements.
• Support new initiatives and directions for your product line.
• Develop product demos and workshops to drive customer engagement.
• Evaluate and drive strategic product management processes: ensure the right blend of trade-offs to maximize the product impact in the marketplace. (competition, release timing and pricing).
• Support senior staff with research, development, and presentation of new product concepts.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing to develop and implement go-to-market plans for product line.
• Market Insights: Understand the market and the competitors who play in this market, develop commercial and product insights from product usage data to produce quantitative analyses covering market size, growth rate, and other key success factors.
• Services Delivery and Scaling. Internal Services resources and Services from Independent Service Providers and Partners must be designed so that they can scale with appropriate training etc. This will be a critical part of the GDOT business strategy, and the Product Manager will need to play a key role in developing and executing on this strategy.
• Positioning: With the Marketing team, develop competitive positioning strategies for current and future market offerings.
• Value Proposition: Develop and maintain market-oriented value propositions for target customers and target industries.
• Sales Engagement: Provide strategic and tactical support for Marketing and Sales teams as a result of detailed commercial/product analyses and business modeling.
• Synergies: Through collaboration with other Product Managers, for example, within the overall Production Optimization area or within Performance Engineering, drive synergies between APC/GDOT and other applications. This work will also include work with AI-driven Hybrid Models which can be shared between different applications.

• Minimum B.S. degree in chemical engineering; MBA, or other advanced management training, desired but not essential.
• Minimum 7 plus years of experience.
• Strong understanding of customer needs and objectives, preferably from experience in the Petroleum and/or Chemicals industries.
• Hands-on experience using APC / Planning / Optimization software.
• Understanding of Modeling Software.
• Experience of real time software environments and needs.
• Experience of taking APC / Optimization software to the market would be an advantage.
• Exposure to sales, product management, and marketing.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective, clear, and concise presentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and maintain excellent colleague and peer relationships.
• Focus on execution.