Analytics Product Manager

Key Role Asks:

• Role requires a good balance between customer focus, strategic and business acumen, and technical appreciation and deep dive where needed.

• Act as Mini-CEO of services/solutions with strong personal drive:

  • Customer-focused, proactive, determined, driven, self-motivated, collaborative, co-operative, flexible, agile and result-oriented

• Create new and disruptive business models connecting Nokia value proposition (through key competences/resources and partners) with the selected customer segments

• Ideate, filter, Develop, Execute and manage Monetizable offerings in Operational efficiency segment of NCS business.

• Ideate novel ideas to market, capture innovations, market asks, competitive space

• Cause Champion: Validate ideas for monetizable potential. Sell idea and secure funding for the ideas. Defines (based on NCS strategy) service/solution strategy, roadmap and priority plans

   

• Define, manage and own Business case of owned/assigned Analytics product/offerings

• Own Idea to execution – complete product life cycle. Ideation, Requirements definition, Roadmap management, agile & DevOps methodology, POCs to success, selling and delivery capability creation

• Own Product roadmap execution – time, quality, budget.

• Sell and commercial capability creation – value proposition, delivery model, sales artifacts, pricing and costing model.

• Product Champion towards sales organization – get your mindshare and help sales build funnel.

• Proactively manage the roadmap to be market leading.

• Set requirements and business priorities for the NCS R&D & larger GSD NCS teams

• Is responsible for alignment with other services/solutions within NCS and other BUs/BGs

• Is responsible for financial success (BCs, revenues, profit and ROI) for owned business segment/products

Key Professional and personal Attributes:

- Track record of bringing innovation of business outcomes (Revenues and Profits).

-Experience in Software as a Service, Software product management, Cloud based data product business, Software sales, IT/Telco Consulting – Min 2 is a must, all of them is desirable

-Presales level Working knowledge and experience in – Telco Operations Support Systems (OSS)/Business Support systems (BSS), Telco Operations process execution/transformation.

- Obsession with Customer success is mandatory – Customers, Nokia Sales, Nokia Partners, sister business units.

- Perseverance and eye for outcome and deliverables quality

-Team player – across different nationalities, cultures, and skill sets. People leadership ability in a cross team functional setup.

-Experience and Flexibility to work in global business environment.

-Ability to work in fast paced and rapidly evolving business environment.

-Ability to work in agile mode using ”minimum viable product” concept

-Being Proactive and considering oneself as a go-getter is a must have attribute.

-Working Knowledge of descriptive as well as predictive (important) analytics products creation is mandatory.

-Knowledge of software/SaaS modules in market ecosystem for partners, collaborators

-Architectural and offering Knowledge of key public cloud environments – AWS, GCP, Azure is desirable

-Previous software coding background, systems integration is an asset, though not a must have.