SUMMARY:
Product Manager - Hybrid Networks
POSITION INFO:
Our Client a global tech firm is seeking 7 Product Manager: Hybrid Networks to join their team in Sandton or Cape town. Our Client offers stability, excellent benefits, growth and a great working environment.
Description
The Product Manager is a senior position in the Product Management job family, operating at a country level. They are required to own and drive the MEA/regional product strategy depending on the requirements of the business and where applicable align to a Global Product Strategy.
The primary responsibility of the Product Manager is to use their market, client, industry and technology focus to provide context to the strategy for new/existing products/offers within Practice portfolio. The objective is to ensure that the portfolio remains relevant, sustainable, competitive and compelling within the markets/industries that they serve.
In this position you will be required to:
Own and drive product strategy
Product Managers are responsible for developing and executing against a Product Strategy. This would include extensive data driven research into Client, Market, Technology, Legislation and industry trends, this data is used to drive continuous improvement in the existing product portfolio and invention of new products for the market. A successful product manager conducts continuous research to grow their market knowledge and develop market insights. They apply this knowledge when formulating robust product strategies for products in their Practice.
The Product Manager will work with relevant country and regional business colleagues to cascade the global product strategies into region and business divisions.
They socialize the product strategy with key stakeholders at a regional and country level and provide advice to relevant teams on demand generation activities that align to market requirements and opportunity.
Define market opportunities
Product Managers are the market and technology domain experts within the company with respect to a particular product category. They work closely with Marketing and their Sales (Geography & GTM) colleagues to perform client, competitor and market analysis. They gather data to identify product and client requirements that are required to identify opportunities and to define the product roadmap.
New product or enhancement concept initiation
Defined market opportunities will initiate a process of new product or new enhancement introduction. Product Managers utilize market, client, industry and technology data to develop concepts for new products/offers. Similarly, they will work with stakeholders & incorporate client feedback to identify enhancement concepts for existing product that will generate efficiencies & growth in the value propositions. They own the production of opportunity statements, articulate the value proposition
Contribute to product concept feasibility investigation
Product Managers determine the feasibility of value proposition design concepts for development of new product/offers. The Product Manager provides input during this stage in terms of expertise, research (data) and design ideas. They define and develop product specifications. It is the responsibility of the Product manager to work with the commercial function to ensure all new products/offers are embedded into a sustainable & scalable business model.
Product Development Process
They work closely with the MEA Service Development & Enablement, as part of a cross functional Agile team, ensure that the product/offer is Ready for Sale (RfS), Ready for Pilot (RfP) and General Availability (GA) in the identified regions;
- Influence regional resource planning, sales target coverage and hiring to ensure sufficient support in the sales and delivery process;
- Own the on-boarding and communication of product updates
- Serve as the primary point of contact between the region and the global Managed Service and Consulting Service product management and development team where the product is a global offering;
- Localize any global product collateral (value proposition slide decks, order forms and contracts, welcome pack, sales cheat sheet, proposal templates etc.), with regional marketing support.
- Take responsibility for ensuring a robust the Quote-to-Cash proves is in place by identifying the gaps and enhancements required are identified and closed during the Product Development Process
Product lifecycle management and monitoring
Product Managers takes responsibility for the definition, monitoring and management of the lifecycle roadmap for each product in their portfolio. They ensure that current features and benefits are appropriately aligned to the product definition, market requirements and evolving client needs. A client focus is imperative and the regular engagement with Client Services Managers to understand service performance and client satisfaction as input to service delivery, product management, and performance measurement processes
Product Managers are responsible for taking the above input as part of the continuing product evolution, product enhancements, the introduction of new product features and functions and the retirement of certain products or variations to ensure product relevance and competitiveness. They oversee the development and manage the scope and trade-offs where new products are introduced to your portfolio or changes are made to exiting pr
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