Product Portfolio Manager Cover Letter

I would like to submit my application for the product portfolio manager opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for competitive intelligence to the entire organisation about what global and local competitors are doing within the region;.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Provide leadership on several cross-team projects, requiring constant communications, tracking of status, and drive for results
• Support design & development of new tools and reports to support portfolio management of the organization
• Strong organizational skills and proven program/project management experience
• Effectively present information in one-on-one and group situations to management, clients, and other employees of the organization
• Demonstrate positive influencing skills
• Experience in business case development and strong analytical background
• Work closely with the Demand Center Team to optimize the database marketing campaign effectiveness, lead distribution, pipeline contribution, Return on Marketing investment (ROMI), overall marketing performance
• Develop deep customer understanding and insight through market research, customer visits and close collaboration with business and product teams

In response to your job posting for product portfolio manager, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for feedback regarding market needs, trends, and competitive activities to the field and internal management at Lonza.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience managing vendors/external suppliers
• Great decision-making and analytical skills
• Experience using project management systems and tools
• Comfort shaping and leading iterative, process-oriented work across teams
• Passion for education and technology
• Project management experience leading Agile Scrum and/or Waterfall methodologies
• Experience working with partners on successful integration projects
• Experience communicating in external client facing role

I am excited to be applying for the position of product portfolio manager. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for insights specifically related to APAC needs in these areas, including: competitive activities for major global competitors and local competition, pricing strategy and market trends.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Excellent knowledge of Security technology, vendors and market
• Understanding of Wi-FI technology, vendors and market
• Strong People management experience – coaching, mentoring skills
• Can work well within a matrixed organization
• Excellent verbal and written communications, effective presentation skills with small and large audiences
• Experience in creating and maintaining business partnerships and relationships
• Collaborate, influence and direct with internal/external customers and/or business colleagues
• Experience in negotiating contracts and legal language

I would like to submit my application for the product portfolio manager opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for analysis of market, competitors and Pernod Ricard performance to help decision making at top management level.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• PMI training and PMP Certification
• Experience working with service providers, and knowledge of emerging cloud based services infrastructures and frameworks including Unified Communications, Contact Centers, CRM and Cloud applications mashups
• Product management experience in Voice and Data Networking, network topologies, firewalls, VPNs, virtualization, bandwidth requirements, load balancing and switch management
• Experience in service automation would be a strong asset
• Intermediate to advanced experience with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Understanding of Federal and State regulations for Medicare programs
• Experience with all Medicare products including group and individual Medicare Advantage, Cost, Supplement, and Part D
• Strong communication skills and able to work effectively in a matrix organization structure

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the product portfolio manager position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for guidance to product planning on the changes in the PC software market ecosystem, user needs, pain points, & competitive trend assessments, and leads integration of the technology, use cases, and product feature requirement definition into the overall software solution roadmap.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• CIPM designation (or working toward)
• Experience creating and executing product strategies
• Experience working with or in Sales and Marketing
• Strong quantitative and data management skills
• Experience managing of internal & external stakeholders
• Work closely with finance and product managers on creation of and updates to business cases to model financial impact of the portfolio
• Develop and execute plans to sunset obsolete products and manage strategic migrations
• Lead a team of Product Management professionals assigned to portfolio