Sr Director Product Mgt.
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Kanata, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Original job description
Step into a leadership role at Nokia's NI ON Systems Portfolio PLM department, where your expertise will guide the industry. As the Sr. Director, you'll architect a business strategy, defining a multi-year plan for profitability and market leadership. This role offers a chance to influence optical networking, collaborate with diverse teams, and mentor a high-performing squad.
How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn
- Define and execute a comprehensive business strategy, setting clear goals and tactics.
- Deliver annual commitments on financial metrics, securing new customer partnerships.
- Collaborate with optical businesses on future roadmap, ensuring market competitiveness.
- Engage with R&D, supply chain, and sales teams to enhance product excellence.
- Understand lead customer needs, delivering tailored solutions for business success.
- Identify high-value applications, supporting RFPs, and maximizing profitability.
- Enable and support the sales team with expertise during market introduction.
- Develop compelling marketing materials and pricing strategies for the product platform.
- Coordinate with PLM to deliver customer-focused solutions, ensuring satisfaction.
- Evaluate ROI scenarios, making data-driven decisions for business growth.
Experience and requirements
- 10 or more years of experience as a Product Manager, System Architect of similar technology position in the optical communication industry
- Experience in customer interaction
- Experience in the optical networking companies is desired.
- Ability to address problems and topics outside of direct experience, abstract and understand and communicate content, natural problem solver
- Ability to work independent and self-organized
- Ability to work in a distributed team and in international environment
- Ability to work flexible and deviate from initial plans, outcome focused
- Ability to contribute to and shape business with fundamentally new technology / architecture
- Strong presentation skills (including management and customer presentations, conference talks and plenum discussions)
- Requires Travel
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Responsibilities
Define and execute a multi-year business strategy for Nokia’s optical networking product portfolio, delivering financial commitments, market growth, and customer partnerships. Guide product roadmaps and customer-focused solutions while collaborating with R&D, supply chain, sales, and PLM teams, and supporting sales through market introductions, RFPs, pricing, and marketing materials.
Requirements
Requires at least 10 years of experience as a product manager, system architect, or in a similar role in the optical communications industry, along with customer interaction experience; optical networking company experience is desired. Candidates should be independent, adaptable problem-solvers with strong communication and presentation skills, able to work in distributed international teams and contribute to new technology and architecture initiatives; travel is required.
Skills
- Product Management
- Optical Networking
- Business Strategy
- Product Roadmapping
- Financial Planning
- Customer Engagement
- RFP Support
- Pricing Strategy
- Marketing
- ROI Analysis
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Sales Enablement
- Presentation Skills
- Problem Solving
- Team Leadership
- International Teamwork
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Technology
- Sales
- Marketing
- Engineering
Keywords
- Optical Networking
- Optical Communications
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Product Management
- System Architecture
- Business Strategy
- Multi-Year Planning
- Profitability
- Market Leadership
- Financial Metrics
- Customer Partnerships
- Product Roadmap
- Research And Development
- Supply Chain
- Sales
- Customer Needs
- RFP
- Sales Enablement
- Marketing Materials
- Pricing Strategy
- ROI Analysis
- Distributed Teams
- International Collaboration
- New Technology
- Architecture