Regional Product Manager ICT
The Regional Product Manager ICT is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritising product and customer requirements, contributing to the product strategies, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure customer/key stakeholder satisfaction goals are met.
The Regional Product Manager ICT job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and financial goals. A successful candidate has a passion for delivering all functional requirements, operationalising, documenting, reporting and supporting the go-to-market efforts in sales development and business objectives.
A successful candidate must be experienced in ICT product development and lifecycle management, preferably with MNO and Cloud Solutions portfolios, and have demonstrated ability in related written and oral communication.
The Regional Product Manager ICT is expected to:
1. Master existing product functionality
2. Assist sales teams and customers in implementation of products and improve user experience
3. Help regional sales staff educate prospective customers
4. Assist senior management in product strategy and roadmap
5. Own core and emerging ICT product lines and shepherd their entire lifecycle
6. Interview key stakeholders on required product functionality
7. Write super-descriptive functional requirements
8. Deliver business requirement documents
9. Evangelize the product/feature internally and externally
10.Train customers, partners, sales staff and field engineering on new products
11.Research integration opportunities with compatible third party products
12.Nurture close relationships with relevant industry working groups
13.Review and prioritize incoming feature requests
14.Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities
15.Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples
16.Be an expert with respect to the competition
17.Act as a leader within the company
18.Join sales calls and handle questions on functionality (including outside of normal hours)
19.Occasional attendance at trade shows/client locations
20.Develop HTML content and maintain various websites, edit scripts and xml files
21.Prepare and edit various marketing material for print and web
22.Demo products at trade shows
23.Author and maintain product release notes, documentation and help systems.
24.Own the products PNL, providing all necessary forecasts, budgets, performance reporting, and sales targets/metrics. 25.Other duties and tasks as assigned
Required experience and knowledge:
1. Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
2. Experience in the mobile ICT as Cloud solutions industry
3. Technical background with experience in IaaS, SaaS telecoms wireless solutions, IoT, Networking, ICT or cloud solutions
4. Must be able to travel 35% of the time and maintain a current passport
5. Examples and at least one sample of an effective document created in the past