Senior Product Manager
Role Title: Senior Product Manager (SDN)
Location: London Paddington / Newbury
Role Purpose...
Vodafone Business is a leading technology communications company that serves over 6m business customers across SME to multi-national segments and a wide range of industries. By connecting people, places and things, Vodafone Business helps organisations succeed in a digital world, keeping society connected. With our expertise in connectivity, our leading IoT platform and our global scale, we help businesses to deliver the results that they need to progress and thrive. We offer a broad product portfolio to meet specific needs of our customers supporting their digital transformation. Industry analysts have recognised our market leadership for years, including in Software Defined Networking. where this role vacancy has been created.
The Senior Product Manager will lead, and provide E2E global lifecycle management for, one or more of our Software Defined Networking technology product lines sold globally by Vodafone Business markets. Pivotal to our future growth ambition, these products include SD-WAN and SASE, are in high demand with a backdrop of accelerating cloud adoption, hybrid working and business needs for improved security, agility and efficiency.
This highly visible, senior product manager role requires proven experience working effectively on a multi-market/country basis with a wide range of senior internal and external stakeholders from eco-system partners to Technology, Product Management, GTM/Marketing, Commercial and Finance functions.
Key role accountabilities:
- Act as the CEO for your product line(s) on a global basis
- Build, scale and lead consistent multi-market products and manage the E2E product lifecycle
- Lead a small team of Global Product Managers, work with local market product managers and cross functional teams, to ensure that your products remain relevant and deliver against our Growth, Customer and Simplification objectives
With us you will...
- Driving strategy for the product line (~3-year horizon) to meet global business and commercial priorities (e.g. revenue growth, margin, customer acquisition)
- Full ownership and accountability for the product commercials, P&L and revenue growth roadmap for their products
- Capture and translate global customer needs into clear product line capabilities and features or to optimize existing products
- Focus on ‘total product design’ to ensure all E2E requirements are captured including quality, safety, regulatory and sustainability
- Create and maintain global product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with In-country Product Managers.
- Ensuring local market requirements are captured and integration, launch and go-to-market resources and budgets are planned and ring-fenced
- Working with SLT/ExCo decision boards where necessary to ensure visibility and alignment of global product roadmaps and to secure funding for new product creation or product enhancements (likely through Head of Portfolio)
- Overseeing the agile product development phase to ensure necessary governance, funding and key deliverables are achieved on time and to quality, working with their respective Senior Technology Product Lead
- Acts as ‘chief publicist’ for their product to ensure all Local Market Readiness and launch requirements are
- consistent, scalable and aligned through their In-country Product Managers and relevant teams (incl. marketing, commercial, sales etc.).
- Identifying/working with product partners and determining how they will support the creation of new products
- Manage all in-life and end-of-life requirements to optimize global product performance, capability and
- commercials, initiating resolving actions where necessary
- Ensures alignment with SAFe framework and methodology for all steps of the PLCM process
It would be nice if you have...
- Strong background in Enterprise Networking and Software Defined WAN/SASE products (Preferred), with a history of thought leadership and driving transformational improvement
- Ability to lead a product line on a global, centralised product management, basis across multiple markets and segments
- Experience developing, securing alignment, and executing product line or portfolio plans
- Able to spot global technology trends and has a clear understanding of relevant product technologies
- Strong influencing and conflict management skills including conflicting local market requirements
- The gravitas to act as the expert for their product portfolio with credibility up to customer ‘C’ level and senior leadership team (SLT) level.
- Appropriate experience in leading and motivating direct reports and virtual teams and the ability to maintain the right balance between tactical and strategic activity to remain on-top of our game and ahead of our competition.
Able to manage multi-market product business cases, P&Ls and commercials Skilled in reviewing product performance end-to-end; including market perception, channel ability to sell, channel ability to deliver, product and CX health
- Appropriate product lifecycle management experience, and the ability to triage across a product and segment mix, ensuring issues are resolved and plans stay on-track
What's in it for you...
-28 days holiday (with the option to buy or sell 5 days) plus public holidays
-Hybrid working
-Pension matching scheme of up to 10%
-5 paid days leave for charity projects
-MyChoices portal - cycle to work scheme, 100’s of retail discounts, shares and salary sacrifice schemes
-Vodafone family and friends discount
-Interest free commuter loan
-Global parental leave policy for all new parents which includes 39 paid weeks of maternity leave and 16 weeks fully paid leave and upon returning to work, new parents can work part-time hours for 6 months whilst being paid their full-time salary
-Access to Vodafone University and LinkedIn Learning
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