Head of Product: Innovation and Value Added Services

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Own all aspects of the company Value Added Services product portfolio, product positioning, and profitability.
* Responsible for the commercial performance of related products within the company.
* Define the overall strategy and product roadmaps, ensuring products can compete successfully across vertical and horizontal segments.
* Responsible for innovation, new product development, new market access, product enhancements, and identifying strategic partnerships that help the company achieve its objectives in the market.
* Exploiting underlying infrastructure to deliver business objectives and to continually enhance and improve the product set.
* Responsible for business and product feasibility in relation to business modeling, forecasting sales potential, and costing models.
* Overseeing commercial direction on new opportunities.
* Present costings and pricing to capitalize on market opportunities, generate revenue, and optimize margin.
* Providing expert insight on technology and industry developments.

Key Skills
• Must be able to guide product strategy at an operational and senior management level.
• Proven success implementing a product strategy.
• Able to manage a small team.
• Full product life cycle management experience from idea creation, initiation, business case, product development, project management, budget and financial control to monthly reporting.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Close working relationships with sales and marketing teams, involved in product positioning and sales pitch.
• Understanding of development cycles.