Chris Tobias

About Chris Tobias

Highly experienced business leader with a history of success in multiple complex environments. A results-oriented leader who consistently demonstrates flexibility, critical thinking skills, and an overall understanding of the business, product, and the market place to make sound decisions. Possesses an eye for detail that consistently delivers superior results throughout the initiation, planning, execution, control, implementation, and closure phases of all projects.Adept at leading multidisciplinary teams, skilled at motivating team collaboration for the successful achievement of organizational objectives. A self-starter who is skilled at identifying and mitigating risk and solving issues. • A talented communicator with exceptional focus, follow-through, and coordination skills. Consistently develops business strategies that produce world-class business enhancements. • A go-to liaison for all stakeholders, always developing mutually profitable relationships. • Identifies process efficiencies and communicates effectively across organizational and managerial lines to deliver team-driven success. CORE COMPETENCIESSales and Marketing Management • Business Development & Planning • Account Implementation • Revenue Enhancement • Negotiation • Call Center Management • Process Improvement • Strategy Development Project Management • Budget Forecasting • Cost Reduction • Staff Assessment • Managed Product Release • Salesforce • MS Office Programs • MS Project • Program & Portfolio Management • Software Testing • Agile & Waterfall Methodologies

Experience

1. Principal Technical Product Manager

   Sap Concur

   May 2021 — Present · US

   Develop a roadmap for your services that fulfills the product vision and strategy and accounts for engineering realities. Establish a clear intake process for newly identified work for your services and ensure that all stakeholders are aware of decisions when competing priorities arise. Understand how evolution of the business travel market will create gaps and challenges for your services and develop strategies to get and stay ahead. Enable the successful delivery of air, train, car, and hotel booking tool initiatives dependent on your services by managing risks and dependencies. Partner with your engineering team to ensure your services are highly reliable, scalable, and secure. Partner with your engineering team to ensure that the services you offer internally and externally comply with Concur’s standards so that all API customers, internal or external, have predictable experiences across the API portfolio. Ensure your services enable data-driven decisions for the creation or sunset of features. Influence externally and internally at all levels, secure buy-in, and drive successful execution of complicated projects across teams and time zones. Develop a deep understanding of existing implementations of your areas and, in partnership with technical leadership, develop a roadmap for sunsetting legacy services. Foster technical relationships with peers at external stakeholders, including data providers and travel suppliers.

Education

• Brookhaven Community College

  Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.)

Skills

• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Sharepoint
• Training
• Strategy
• Negotiation
• Program Management
• Ms Project
• Product Management
• Leadership
• Budget
• Sales
• Business Process Improvement
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Salesforce.com
• Account Management
• Team Leadership
• Budgets
• Process Improvement
• Crm
• Business Development
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)