The Purpose of the Role

As the Senior Product manager your primary purpose is to define a product's strategy, vision, and roadmap, ensuring it meets user needs, aligns with business goals, and is successfully developed and launched throughout its lifecycle by coordinating cross-functional teams like retail, engineering, design, marketing, and sales while gathering and analysing user feedback to guide product development decisions.

Core Responsibilities

• Ownership of Product description documents, creation and updating
• Identifying customer needs
• Defining the key features, specifications and requirements of the products
• Staying ahead/competing with the competition
• Marketing collateral including battle cards for partners/retail
• CPE requirements and procurement & future proofing (i.e. white box CPE, virtual functionality)
• Product onboarding, including:-
  • Processes/procedures (can they consume etc)
  • Operational readiness
  • Cross functional teams are aligned
  • Systems
  • Testing
  • Over the top services
  • Managing network to network interfaces
• Defining product pricing
• Creating Business cases in line with product roadmap

• Developing product roadmaps through insights from market research competition, and evaluation
• Defining the key features, specifications and requirements of the products
• Establishing strategies for wholesale & retail product pricing and positioning
• Managing the budgets of multi-disciplinary teams involved with product development
• Performing profit analysis and forecasting to develop or improve product marketing strategies
• Creating project timeline and implementation schedules across all functional area’s
• Ensuring a successful product launch across all key area’s, especially sales and operations.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in product management or related role in a telecoms industry
• Technical expertise within telecoms to support product descriptions
• Knowledge of every aspect of the product development life cycle
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong experience in a dynamic product management role
• Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle
• High effectiveness in managing cross-functional teams
• Ability to create product development and marketing strategies
• Strong leadership and project management skills
• In-depth knowledge about the industry and product’s users
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills
• Experience in delivering finely tuned product marketing strategies
• Ability to analyse complex data to identify market trends and customers’ behaviour

Qualifications

• Proven success as a product developer in a nonmanagerial role
• Demonstrable knowledge of SEM (search engine marketing) and online advertising
• Degree level
• Project management qualifications
• Marketing experience

Personal Attributes

• Leadership skills
• Strong communication skills
• Analytical thinking
• Ability to build relationships
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Customer centric mindset

Reporting to - TBC

Working with Freedom Fibre

We operate in a relaxed and industrious atmosphere; you will be encouraged to speak out and contribute wherever you feel you have something to offer. Our offices are open 07:00 through to 18:00 and we are happy to be flexible with working hours so you can enjoy a relatively stress-free commute or work from home to create the best possible work life balance that suits you and Freedom Fibre.

We offer an attractive package including bonus, generous pension, private health care and flexible working along with other benefits.

 

Freedom Fibre recognise the service provided by recruitment agencies and as such have a Preferred 2nd tier Supplier List, with whom terms of business have been agreed. Only suppliers who have signed up to these terms can place candidates with Freedom Fibre and will receive instruction directly from us to do so. Freedom Fibre is therefore unable to consider speculative CV's or proposals from any other third party and any speculative CV's or proposals being sent into the organisation will be treated as gifts.

As such, Freedom Fibre reserves the right to directly contact any candidates who have been speculatively submitted by a third party and shall therefore not be liable for any fees whatsoever should it choose to engage the candidate’s services. Furthermore, speculative submission of candidate CV's does not establish a right of representation should the same candidate’s details also be submitted by a Freedom Fibre Preferred 2nd tier Supplier or independently by the candidate themselves.

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