As the Director Product Management you are a fully dedicated business leader who in collaboration with the management team, shapes the future of the organisation’s product portfolio and business proposition in line with the company’s strategy and vision. You are responsible for closely monitoring the immediate and wider industry’s on-going changes and trends. You are responsible for highlighting these trends and propose optimal actions and movements to the management to maximise the company’s opportunities and de-risk current business activities.

In order to achieve the objectives of your position, you will be managing and mentoring product teams instilling strong understanding of the business needs, creating and owning the product strategy, product portfolio, product roadmap, positioning, business plans, market trends, requirements and use case scenarios. Also, you will be working closely with Head of Sales, Chief Financial Officer, Marketing Director, Operations and Engineering teams in addition to corporate management.

 Manage the entire Group product portfolio life-cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities. 2020 Product Portfolio consists of global connectivity, online and satellite streaming and broadcasting solutions, Datacentre, Cloud and IT services.

 Bring new products to market by analysing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses and working closely with cross-functional teams.

 Formulate and execute product strategies that also clearly define Go-to-market plans, value propositions, competitive and product positioning.

 Perform periodic product profitability study at segment levels to proactively identify mitigation plans.

 Conduct regular top management presentation on product roadmap and financial performance.

 Perform competitive landscape analysis and drive change

 P x Q Reporting, ensuring costing, pricing and margin structures are in place

 A strong, experienced leader in the wider communications environment with great vision and foresight paired with entrepreneurial DNA.

 A tactical thinker and doer with the ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing when interacting with customers, team members, peers and senior management.

 Solid understanding of product and service life cycle as well as the underlying strategies to manage them.

 Solid understanding of IPLC, DIA, Ethernet and last Mile technologies, Colocation, interconnection, Cloud, IOT SDN/WAN and Content broadcast/streaming technologies

 A seasoned communicator with an inspiring nature and personality.

 Highly disciplined, organised and structured approach to tasks

 Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products.

 A track record for mentoring and leading a range of product managers and developers, and for collaborating with peers in content teams, marketing, sales and technology roles.

 Strong commercial focus, balancing vision with pragmatism to create growing profitable, market-leading products.

 The ability to lead teams to understand the business needs of customers and apply them proposing (and market testing) information / analytical solutions to those needs.