The Purpose of the Role
As the Wholesale 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 engineering, design, marketing, and sales while gathering and analysing user feedback to guide product development decisions.
Core Responsibilities
* Ownership of wholesale Product description documents, creation and updating
* 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:
o Processes/procedures (can they consume etc)
o Operational readiness
o Cross functional teams are aligned
o Systems
o Testing
o Over the top services
o 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
* Establishing strategies for wholesale 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 areas
* Ensuring a successful product launch across all key areas, 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 non-managerial 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.
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