Product Manager: Network Infrastructure

3 weeks ago


Centurion, South Africa Nology Full time

**Job Purpose Summary**:
**Job Title**:
Product Manager: Network Infrastructure

**Permanent/Temporary**:
Permanent

**Department/Division**:
Networking BU

**Location**:
Centurion office

**Reports to**:
Marc Kushner

**Effective date**:
01/03/2024

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Understand and internalize/define the product vision, strategy and roadmap.
- Gather, manage, and prioritize market/customer requirements and the matching product unique selling points (USPs).
- Works closely with technical, sales, marketing and support to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met.
- Act as the Subject Matter Expert for allocated brands and products.
- Is a market expert. Market expertise includes understanding the reasons customers purchase products. This includes a deep understanding of the competition, and how customers think of and buy your product. Product Managers need market research and competitive analysis skills to complete these tasks.
- Defines what to solve in the market needs document, where you articulate the valuable market problem you’re solving along with priorities and justification for each part of the solution.
- Runs beta and pilot programs as well as regular reviews and checks with customers to ensure that the product meets the customer expectations.
- Act as the product / brand leader within the company.
- Identify, source and develop new product and brand alliances.
- Developing business cases and Go-To-Market plan for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures.
- Plan and supervise new product implementations/rollouts.
- Define and prioritize customer segments/markets for the product.
- Ultimate responsibility for product pricing and pricing policies.
- Define marketing strategy and plan for the product
- Provide and continuously update product sales forecasts
- Ultimate responsibility for Vendor and Supplier relationships
- Oversee supplier contract and/or target negotiations
- Oversee that supplier required reports and/or requests and questions are attended to professionally and timeously.
- Present quarterly business reviews (QBR) to management and/or suppliers.
- Ensure that supplier targets requirements are met.
- Ensure that vendor certification levels are maintained.
- Supervision of Junior Product Managers as required.
- Monitoring and management of stock levels and replenishments.
- Manage purchase orders (POs)
- Supervise and assist with development of training material.
- Provide internal training.
- Supervise and/or provide customer training

***_The above list is not exhaustive, and you may be asked to undertake reasonable additional duties/projects as requested._

**Education and Qualifications Required**:

- Grade 12
- Relevant tertiary qualification

**Required Skills, Knowledge, and Personal Characteristics**:

- Product Management
- Understanding the Customer
- Product Development
- Requirements Analysis
- Pricing
- Planning
- Competitive Analysis
- Sales Planning
- Inventory Control
- Financial Planning
- Strategy

**Experience Required**:

- Experience in Networking essential
- Experience in the IT distribution channel advantageous
- Sales experience an advantage
- Commercial acumen



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