Job description
Product Manager - Data Networking Capabilties
The role holder will
- Develop, manage and deliver a core set of connectivity capabilities that support the Ethernet, IP and Internet portfolios including Fibre, GEA, 21CN together with bespoke access capabilities.
- Working closely with the relevant product management teams to ensure the Product requirements are being met through the capability lifecycle management and ensuring a modular solution common capability approach is maintained.
- Manages strategic supplier relationships to ensure investment and support in future portfolio development
- Provides subject matter expertise to support the execution of the capability roadmaps in support of the product strategy within Business and into the CFUs
- Acting as Team Leader for the capabilities product management team with line manager responsibility
- Leadership of core connectivity capbilitioes covering access and 21Cn in support of the portfolio that consume.
- Set out the roadmap vision, strategy and investment roadmap across capability lifecycle with the Senior Manager of Data Networking and the Portfolio managers.
- Ensuring a modular solutions, common capability approach of core product capabilities supporting multiple product consumption
- Manage the full portfolio lifecycle from product development, to in life and end-of-life initiatives
- Proivide subject matter expertise in support of both the Product management teams but also into value channels for key bids (sales and specialists) as appropriate
- Support transition of portfolio to strategic systems and processes and management in a hybrid environment
- Team management responsibility and wider matrix management interfaces
- Identifies new products or enhancements to existing products by understanding and analysing user needs, BT Group's current product suite and business requirements of internal functions like sales and delivery.
- Collaborates with analytics and engineering teams, and interfaces with cross functional stakeholders e.g. executives, sales, product, marketing, legal, and customer success teams to fulfil the product backlog using Scrum/ Agile methodologies.
- Contributes towards the continual assessment of the needs of customers, tech teams and stakeholders in defining and evolving the product strategy.
- Ensures accurate and formal product documentation such as feature sheets and user guides.
- Ensures constant analysis of customer behaviour, developing metrics and cultivating novel techniques to help our customers.
- Contributes towards comprehensive product requirements to instrument new tracking events, build data tools, pipelines, analytic dashboards and visualisations.
- Mentors other product management professionals, helping to improve the team’s abilities by acting as a technical resource.
- Product Strategy & Vision
- Product Roadmapping
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Product / Solution Requirements Definition
- User Experience Design
- Product Discovery & Experimentation
- OKR Definition & Tracking
- Platform/ Technology Architecture & Feasibility
- User research & Customer Need Identification
- Agile Methodologies
- Data Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Partner Selection & Management
- Project/Programme Management
- Backlog Prioritisation Management
- Commercial Acumen