Ben Bauman

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ABOUT BEN BAUMAN

Hi there, I\'m Ben, nice to connect with you. Please see my portfolio website for some fun stories about my work: a quick run-down of career achievements (similar to what you\'d see on my resume).• Highly accomplished product management leader with nearly two decades of experience in strategic planning, enterprise portfolio management, and large-scale systems implementation.• Successfully managed portfolios encompassing multi-billion-dollar product lines.• Led transformational projects impacting thousands of customers.• Created a catalog of over 200 digital courses on leadership including two new coaching programs. Directed over 300 hundred videos that were filmed in studio for the product.• Concurrently, led two agile software teams in the parking industry.• Experience overseeing product roadmap strategy and translating solutions into detailed user stories.• Key contributor on two winning business proposal project teams, each contract totaling over $100M+.• Mentored two interns from HBCUs who were promoted into full time positions at Scientific Games. While at the North Carolina Education Lottery hired, coached and mentored product team members.• Executed more than 60 consumer research projects, both qualitative focus groups and quantitative studies, and used the resulting analytics to drive product improvements.A collaborative servant leader and team-builder who enjoys active listening and sharing data-driven insights to solve complex problems for customers. Serving customers in the area of product management, product marketing, category management, consumer research, and operations management.Core competencies include:• Product Management• Project Management• Product Marketing• Consumer Research• Coaching and Mentoring• Strategic Planning• Category Management• Marketing Strategy• Forecasting and Budgeting• Operations Management• Experience in Business Proposal Writing• Working with External Vendors On-site• Vendor Negotiations