Production Manager
Job: Production Manager
Basic Salary: £45,000-£55,000
Employment: Full Time
Date posted: 02/08/23
Location: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Product Manager to join our client, a well established Telecommunications company based in Southend, Essex.
The purpose of this role is to take the responsibility for the defining, building, implementing and managing product portfolio across target business sectors.
This role takes input from the business, our strategy, the markets and their own experience to create and continually update a product plan to match the growth ambitions of the business.
This role has full end to end responsibility from product selection through to cost recommendations, training of product /sales support, ownership for successful marketing deployments and product life cycle management.
Further details:
The Role:
Responsible for developing and deploying a plan for FTTH/FTTX products
Responsible for developing and deploying a plan for Standard fibre optic distribution products including data centre products
Responsible for developing and deploying a plan for FTTA, future 5G/6G products
Responsible for developing and deploying a plan for Industrial products
Via the group product team and direct management of on-site marketing resource ensures marketing collateral and digital marketing updates are in place to support launches and promotions of products in plan
Provides training, pre sales and technical support for new products
Carry out continual market studies of product, competition and trends to inform and update our product plans
Making commercial and pricing recommendations
Supports bids, tenders and large projects with sales team
Manages life cycle of products including commercial viability
Is a Leadership and cultural champion in business and presents themselves and company in correct manner. Acts as role model in terms of behaviour, work ethic and values
Accountable Metrics:
Deployment of product plans on time and to budget
Sales growth via new products implemented
Margin extension or protection via cost recommendations and life cycle management
What you'll bring -
Technical knowledge of telecom fibre optic products
Knowledge of telecom market, operators and suppliers
Ability to carry out market studies and interpret findings
Product deployment and development experience and demonstrable success in execution
Commercial acumen with ability to maximise margin and importance of revenue achievement
Product marketing experience
High level multi-tasking skills with ability to manage multiple projects and deployments
If you are hungry to succed, learn and grow - this is the role for you!