Seasonal Campaigns Product Manager 3 | Missionary Department at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Overview

This position serves as the Global Seasonal Initiative Manager and is responsible for coordinating Church-wide seasonal initiatives and related strategic programs and efforts across departments and global areas to achieve approved outcomes. The role provides governance, coordination, and accountability for planning, budgeting, execution, and reporting while ensuring alignment with evolving organizational priorities.

Role

The purpose of this position is to help bring God's children unto Jesus Christ by increasing understanding of His Church and its divinely appointed responsibilities of assisting in gathering Israel on both sides of the veil and preparing the world for the Second Coming of the Savior.

The Product Manager 3 is a senior level role that creates and manages products that reach a variety of audiences with the purpose of furthering the mission of the Church by inviting all to come unto Christ. The focus of the Product Manager 3 is on meeting the needs of the customer audience while aligning stakeholders around measurable outcomes.

This position serves as the Global Seasonal Initiative Manager and is responsible for coordinating Church-wide seasonal initiatives and related strategic programs and efforts across departments and global areas to achieve approved outcomes. The role provides governance, coordination, and accountability for planning, budgeting, execution, and reporting while ensuring alignment with evolving organizational priorities.

This is an at-will, fixed-term position with the potential for continuation based on business needs and performance.

The Missionary department has a standard hybrid work schedule and may change due to business need(s). The following is the standard across the department:

• Tuesday to Thursday - In office work days
• Monday to Friday - Work from home

About The Company

Responsibilities

• Understand unmet and customer/audience needs.
• Balance stakeholder requirements with customer needs.
• Establish and maintain a prioritized backlog of product requirements.
• Prioritize audiences/customers.
• Product ambassador: Create, lead, and coordinate cross-functional teams, departments, and areas to align strategy, execution, budgets, and outcomes.
• Manage the entire Product Lifecycle.
• Product launch and adoption for all targeted audiences.
• Develop core product communication, messaging, and positioning by audiences.
• Establish, monitor, analyze, and report product and initiative metrics to ensure accountability for approved outcomes and continuous improvement.
• Manage inventory levels to meet supply/demand.
• Indirect leadership/teamwork required from other internal organizations: Lead one or more cross-functional teams consisting of a variety of job levels/functions.
• Product Influence (strategic importance, footprint/global): Oversee products that are highly strategic, often with a global impact. Often involves expansion into new markets or areas.
• Product breadth (product, product line, portfolio): Manage one or more product families, portfolios, programs, or initiatives.
• Budget responsibility: Will typically manage a total budget in the multimillion-dollar range.
• Product complexity (technical, integration): Manage products that are highly integrated with other products and across departments.
• Presentations and internal communication (management, executive management): Communicate, coordinate, and support decision-making through executive councils, including General Authorities,
• Managing Directors, Area leadership, and other governing bodies.
• Vendor management: Create requests for proposals, evaluate bids, perform buy/build analysis, work with service departments to select and manage vendors.
  

Requirements

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required in business, marketing, communications, or related discipline.
• 9 years of experience leading multidisciplinary projects or initiatives.
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to proactively identify, define, and solve the most complex problems.
• Ability to influence strategy to address internal or external business needs.
• History of being a top performer in previous work assignments.
• Proven ability to advocate change and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Ability to create and deliver executive-level presentations.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.
• Ability to accomplish work with minimal supervision.

To successfully perform the essential functions of the job there may be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using computer monitors/equipment.

Preferred:

• Experience leading large-scale global initiatives involving multiple departments, organizations, international stakeholders, budgets, and executive leaders.
• Demonstrated success coordinating complex cross-functional efforts through influence, governance, consensus-building, and outcome-based performance management.
• Master's degree.