Product Manager Wi-fi Extender and Smart Wifi - Edegem, België - Vantiva

Beschrijving

Company Description

VANTIVA, formerly known as Technicolor Connected Home helps the world's leading Service Providers embrace the complex technologies needed to deliver seamless connectivity to the internet.

Through powerful broadband and intelligent Wi-Fi technologies, Technicolor enables the uninterrupted access and seamless interactions that lead to premium content experiences every time.

Our broadband home gateways are built on open platforms to deliver robust, secure, interoperable and apps-ready solutions, making home the new frontier of your next-gen services.

Our Wi-Fi whole home mesh Wi-Fi solutions enable optimized connectivity and seamless interactions for every user, every time, and in every corner of their homes.

This means seamless Wi-Fi, without exception - reducing the number of calls to the operator helpdesk and driving increased customer satisfaction, loyalty, and lifetime value.

Job Description:

The Wi-fi Extender Product Manager is responsible for defining and managing the roadmap for Wi-Fi Extenders.

Smart Wi-Fi solutions is a combination of different building blocks:
Smart roaming SW solutions, Wi-Fi Extenders to improve coverage and implementing newer Wi-Fi technology.


Your responsibilities are:

• You followup the new Wi-Fi technologies as Wi-Fi 6E, 7 and consequent versions to improve our customers Wi-Fi experience and understand the market trends.
• You create and define end to end Smart Wi-Fi solutions inside Vantiva
• You decide within the portfolio to develop new products or product features either based on market evolutions or on specific customer requests. You then introduce these new products to the customers and make sure to win key new customer opportunities based on that. You will have a ruthless approach to achieve that goal
• The portfolio offered covers all Wi-Fi extenders on a worldwide j basis.
• You will be responsible for the definition of new solutions in the portfolio until the concept phase is over.
• You lead the concept team during that phase.
• You will be responsible for running market studies, defining the product roadmap and strategy, deciding and recommending to the management which solutions to put on the market in its segment.
• You will use customer visits, market and technology trends, strategy and input from regions to determine the generic products.
• For this you will be conducting strategy reviews to assess the profitability of your portfolio and the strategy to be followed and decisions to be taken for your portfolio.
• You will be responsible determining product features in cooperation with the regions, engineering, customers and partners, and supporting the sales team in its presales effort.
• You will define the general pricing guidelines and customization framework for the regions.
• You will be responsible for the Margin Contribution of your portfolio as well as the cost of your solutions
• You are responsible for setting the Target Product Costs for your solutions
• You ensure proper alignment with the regions to maintain a positive business plan for your solutions and find champions to introduce your solutions to customers.
• You will be supporting the regions for its key accounts where needed.
• You will produce necessary sales trainings and documentations associated with your product (datasheets, roadmaps, launch kits, commercial and marketing pitches).
• You will promote your product to the internal and external stakeholders.
• You will contribute to differentiating your product portfolio by defining new innovative products and features as well as writing white papers, pitches etc.
• The job entails frequent interaction with Engineering, Product Development Unit and Business Division management teams based in Belgium, France, Israel, India and the United States.
• The job is based in Belgium, with frequent international travel and customer visits.
• You are a team player who interacts easily with the different layers of the company's management.
• You are able to bond quickly and are capable of managing conflicting priorities successfully to reach the company goals

Qualifications:


Education

• You have a Master Degree in Engineering, preferably in Electronics with affinity for Wi-Fi technologies. You have relevant field experience in electronical engineering and Smart Wi-Fi SW technologies.

Experience

• You have proven background in product management, marketing functions or similar
• You have proven experience in Customer Management / Interactions
• Having experience in the hardware and Software solutions
• You have proven experience in complex technological projects
• You have strong analytical thinking, and reporting skills, as well as written and oral communications skills in English in a multidisciplinary team's environment (mandatory)
• You are proactive, open minded, synthetic and at ease in multicultural environment
• You have a high degree of initiative and responsibility. You are able to adapt per