Job Title: Wholesale Product Manager

Location: Irlam

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. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales, while gathering and analysing user feedback to guide product development decisions.

Core Responsibilities

Ownership of wholesale product description documents, including creation and updates.
Defining the key features, specifications, and requirements of the products.
Developing product roadmaps through insights from market research, competition analysis, 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 timelines and implementation schedules across all functional areas.
Ensuring a successful product launch across key areas, especially sales and operations.
Staying ahead of and competing with the competition.
Developing marketing collateral, including battle cards for partners/retail.
Managing CPE requirements, procurement, and future-proofing (e.g., white box CPE, virtual functionality).
Overseeing product onboarding, including:
- Processes and procedures.
- Operational readiness.
- Cross-functional team alignment.
- System integration.
- Testing.
- Over-the-top services.
- Managing network-to-network interfaces.
Defining product pricing.
Creating business cases in line with the product roadmap.

Skills & Experience

Proven experience in product management or a related role in the 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 of the industry and product's users.
Exceptional writing and editing skills, combined with strong presentation and public speaking abilities.
Experience in delivering finely tuned product marketing strategies.
Ability to analyse complex data to identify market trends and customer 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 qualification.
Project management qualifications.
Marketing experience.

Personal Attributes

Leadership skills.
Strong communication skills.
Analytical thinking.
Ability to build relationships.
Excellent negotiation skills.
Customer-centric mindset.

Working Environment & Benefits
The company operates in a relaxed and industrious atmosphere where employees are encouraged to contribute their ideas and expertise. Flexible working arrangements are available, including remote work options, to support a healthy work-life balance. Employees receive an attractive package that includes a bonus, generous pension, private healthcare, flexible working options, and additional benefits.