Product Owner / SIP Proposition Manager

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A Leading UK provider of billing, provisioning and customer management solutions to resellers operating in the communications, data and IT sectors. This award winning company's carrier grade provisioning and orchestration platform provides a management framework for all types of SIP and IP Telephony services therefore are looking to recruit a person with expertise in these specific areas.

Personal Qualities

- Expert knowledge of SIP and IP Telephony

- Commercial experience of carrier wholesale IP services

Key Duties:

- Understanding and specifying market requirements for current and future propositions.

- Gathering and validating input from stakeholders to identify opportunities and turning these into actionable roadmaps.

- Embedding the culture of Proposition Management across all functions of the business, evolving the proposition strategy, defining a roadmap and taking ownership of commercial success.

- Managing the proposition lifecycle, including technical and commercial KPIs.

Involves:

- Conducting market research.

- Competitive analysis.

- On-going visits to customers.

- Discussions with partners.

- Defining the product roadmap, balancing product requirements and market impact against time to market and project risks.

- Monitoring the status of development projects.

- Present product strategy, roadmap, and existing features to internal and external audiences, including executive briefings, trade shows, and sales meetings.

- Support the product's go-to market strategy with the Head of Sales and Marketing.

- Keep close involvement with key development projects during release cycles, working closely with the sales, product and development teams to deliver exceptional features and value to our products.

- Evangelise the product to both internal and external stakeholders.

- Train and support the Sales and customer support teams throughout the product lifecycle.

- To preserve information security, report security breaches, in line with the Information Security Policy, and to act in accordance with the requirements of the Information Security Management System.

Supplementary Duties

- Attend trade shows, industry forums and user group meetings.

- Assist with marketing activities and customer visits.

Skills Required

- Experience of working with customers and software projects in the Telecoms and IT sector.

- Significant experience bringing new products to market with an emphasis on 'whole product' readiness.

- Evidence of ability to influence and negotiate complete solutions throughout the company.

- Ability to help develop, promote and use a company-wide Proposition Management process and related systems.

- Ability to articulate and drive business opportunities into actionable roadmaps.

- Excellent communication skills at all levels - both written and verbal.

- Proficiency in MS-Office and project management/collaboration tools (e.g; Jira, Wrike and Office365).

- Experience working in an Agile environment