Software Product Manager Glasgow, Scotland
Job description
The future starts here! Ready to join NXP in SW product management?
As SW product manager you will be in partnership with the Product Management and Solutions Teams, define, drive and manage the roadmap of software products integral to the solutions strategy of our business.
Your responsibilities
As a SW product manager, you are responsible for:
Build a strategy of software products and delivery plans aligned to the PL’s needs, drive the planning and execution with the R&D organization ensuring deliveries meet timing and customer functional expectations.
Be the customer face of our software products, be able to discuss functionality and build product requirements from customer communication.
Understand the major competitor real capabilities and their product strategy, ensure a competitive capability is planned from NXP.
Establish a fact/market based common understanding of our potential software value and develop the marketing tools to allow our sales team to extract that value.
Plan and manage our software sales and revenue strategy with the Segment Managers ensuring consistency across VCNS and with AP central Commercial marketing.
Drive the business strategies for alternative customer revenue models, adders, revenue sharing, buy outs, buy ins, NRE’s, software enabled hardware, etc.
Manage the strategy and prioritization of VCNS software products with the R&D team, working the trade offs required to meet our customer requirements and our strategies.
Manage the PL relationship with the key SW partners, share roadmaps keep them updated on our strategies and product timing.
Understand and manage our software budget and spend with the R&D team ensuring optimum use is made of both internal and external resources.
Manage a portfolio of software products with appropriate maintenance and warranty contracts with our focused customers.
Your profile
To be successful in this role you have:
BSc or MSc degree and experienced in the software industry, serving automotive or similar markets.
Experience of the Auto OEM software supply chain.
Commercial experience of selling, buying and/or managing software.
Experience in developing Contracts and Competitive Positioning of T&C’s
Experience of software product management through all the lifecycles (creation to maintenance)
Ability to develop & present successful business plans to senior management
Track record of significant business development & long term relationship building
Partner management – developing win-win relationships with trusted partners
Furthermore, you are:
Strong Communication & influencing skills
Experience of working in a multi-national company with global customers would be an advantage
Able to travel when required to our customers.
Creating Secure Connections and Infrastructure for a Smarter World
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) makes products and environments safer, more sustainable, and more secure with innovative connectivity and edge processing solutions for a smarter world.
We are in the business of better. Not just better technologies, but better innovations to improve society. As the world leader in secure connectivity and processing solutions for embedded applications, NXP is solving the world’s most complex technology challenges to accelerate business innovation, enhance how we work, and advance how we live.
Ready to create a smarter world? Visit our career website and follow us on social: LinkedIn , Facebook , and Twitter .
To learn more about NXP in the UK, click here or visit our showroom here
What can you expect
Contract: This is a full-time position with a permanent contract. However, we are open to discuss a part-time opportunity as well.
Benefits: Besides a competitive salary, we offer market leading benefits. For example, we offer a bonus plan, an excellent pension plan, private medical cover, wellbeing payments, flexible working arrangement guidelines, an employee share purchase plan and much more. When applicable we also provide a relocation package and support for your move to the UK.
Development opportunities: We believe that a key component to growing our business is to develop our people. To enable you to grow your career at NXP, we provide you with a mix of learning through on-the-job experiences, learning from industries bests, and learning through education to help you develop your core and professional skills.
Our offices: Our newest NXP UK site is in Glasgow, Scotland which opened in 2017. Southampton is home to Automotive R&D engineers developing ICs for secure car access systems. Redhill is the site of the UK branch of NXP’s global Intellectual Property Group (IP Group). We also have an number of permanent homeworkers in the UK.
Hiring process: Applying only takes a minute! Fill in the online application and share your CV with us. After a positive screening based on your CV you will have an initial video conversation with our Talent Acquisition Consultant followed by several business interviews. Here are some useful tips to help you prepare.
And more: Life at NXP is more than work alone. Join one of the many social activities that are organized by and for employees in the UK such as our Yoga and Piyo sessions, our book club or our other health and sport related clubs. We have partnerships in education. In the UK, NXP partners with local schools and universities to support and promote STEM activity, identify collaborative research opportunities, equip teaching labs and offer student placements and graduate career positions. We also take time to give back to our communities by encouraging team member engagement, networking and team building by holding regular charity fundraising events throughout the year that benefit the local communities in which we operate.
What’s next
If you’re excited about this opportunity, we kindly invite you to apply!
If you have any questions, we are happy to answer them. Please contact Samira Chalh, Talent Acquisition Specialist on [email protected]
