Assistant Product Manager
Melbourne - 727 Collins, Australia
Company:
MercerDescription:
Mercer is seeking candidates for the following position based in the Melbourne office:
Assistant Product Manager
What can you expect?
This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office. As an Assistant Product Manager in the Mercer Career Products team - you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of clients within the Industry Networks team. Ensuring our remuneration and benefit benchmarking products are meeting client needs and providing insights into their industry that adds value to their business and strengthens our client relationships.
What is in it for you?
- Full time opportunity at 35 hours per week
- Professional offices at 727 Collins Street, Docklands
- Salary on offer $80,000 to $85,000 plus Superannuation
- Applications open: 26 March 2025
- Applications close: 23 April 2025
At Mercer, we recognise that our most important asset is our people. We offer benefits and programs that support career development. We also recognise the value of healthy, happy colleagues and promote a culture of care and wellbeing, offering benefits such as flexible working and much more!
We will count on you to:
- Manage and grow a portfolio of clients within a particular cluster of industries, that may include, for example: Professional Services and Education; Financial Services; Actuarial Science & Data Analytics; Hospitality, Industry Associations & Club forums
- Success measured by client retention, revenue growth, and where applicable, database growth metrics
- Translate raw data into insights and presentations for delivery to industry HR leaders
- Maintain client satisfaction levels by ensuring effective onboarding, orientation and query resolution
- Keep on top of market and remuneration trends as well as client feedbacks / insights
- Draw on deep industry and product knowledge, as well as broader HR and remuneration experience to become a trusted advisor and demonstrate value to clients
- Develop and maintain relationships with key contacts in the industry and maintain significant presence in the sector including client steering committees if relevant
- Proactively support clients to provide accurate data submissions to meet our internal deadlines
- Proactively support Client Engagement Managers within the team with client queries, internal processes, trainings and data submission
- Lead industry events (virtually and face to face), client webinars both pre and post survey release to maintain close contact with the market and communicate new insights
- Work closely with Project and Product Managers to support clients with data queries, data submission and provide trends insights
- Work closely with Business Development/ Sales and Marketing teams to support the development of product specific marketing materials to effectively market and sell assigned products
- Work with the Customer Service team to ensure client contact details are maintained and updated
- Ensure invoicing is accurate and AR are chased
- Support revenue reporting and forecasting activities for assigned products
What you need to have:
- Business and commercial acumen
- Product management and HR and remuneration experience
- 2-3 years working within a remuneration or reward environment preferred
- Ability to interpret complex data into easy to understand language
- Ability to learn about a wide range of products
- Ability to work with online product-related tools and be a technical expert to assist clients
- Ability to understand how survey trends are likely to impact on end users
- Comfortable with public speaking to small-to-large audiences - both virtual and in-person
- Strong time management skills
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Have great presentation, written and verbal communication, engagement and interpersonal skills
- Be able to work under pressure and have the skills to manage multiple requests/ projects/pitches
- Business development skills
- Local market awareness and presence: communication, public speaking, thought leadership
Job Profile
Hybrid role Hybrid work Minimum 3 days in office
Benefits/PerksCareer development Career development programs Disability Flexibility Flexible work Flexible work environment Flexible working Hybrid work Professional development Wellbeing initiatives
Tasks- Client Engagement
- Collaborate with teams
- Customer Service
- Forecasting
- Lead industry events
- Maintain
- Maintain client satisfaction
- Maintain relationships
- Manage client portfolio
- Reporting and forecasting
- Support client engagement
- Translate data into insights
Actuarial Actuarial science Advising Analytics Benchmarking Business Business Development Client Engagement Client relationship management Client Retention Collaboration Commercial Communication Customer service Data & Analytics Excel Financial Services Forecasting HR Interpersonal Law Leadership Management Marketing Marketing materials Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint Onboarding Power PowerPoint Presentation Presentations Product Management Public speaking Remuneration Reporting Sales Strategy Teams Thought Leadership Time Management Verbal communication Webinars
Experience2-3 years
EducationActuarial science Business HR Marketing
Certifications TimezonesAustralia/Brisbane Australia/Darwin Australia/Melbourne Australia/Perth UTC+10 UTC+11 UTC+8 UTC+9