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Introduction

Experience Level: 8+ Years of Professional Experience | 2+ Years of Product Portfolio Management

Your role and responsibilities

As a Product Portfolio Manager at IBM, you will lead key product initiatives throughout their lifecycle. In this mid-level role, you will help shape the product vision and strategy while ensuring alignment with IBM's goals. You’ll work closely with teams such as Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Support to ensure product success and meet customer satisfaction and revenue targets.

This position offers a great opportunity for someone with strong technical knowledge and product management experience to take on greater responsibilities in defining the product roadmap and executing on strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Customer Focus: Represent the voice of the customer in product strategy discussions, ensuring that customer needs are prioritized.

• Product Requirement Gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and document customer and market requirements for product development.

• Collaboration Across Teams: Work with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and other functional teams to ensure products are market-ready and meet business objectives.

• Research & Insights: Analyze available data, customer feedback, and market trends to drive continuous improvement of the product.

• Go-to-Market Execution: Support the development and execution of go-to-market plans, working closely with Sales and Marketing teams.

• Messaging & Positioning: Help create and refine product positioning and messaging for marketing campaigns.

• Opportunity Discovery: Assist in identifying new market trends and opportunities, contributing to the product strategy and roadmap.

• Business Case & Financial Models: Support in developing business cases and revenue projections for new products and features.

• Pricing Models: Collaborate with the Finance team to develop pricing strategies that support business growth and profitability.

• Market & Competitor Insights: Stay updated on industry trends and competitive landscape to inform product strategy.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Experience: 8+ years of professional experience, with at least 2+ years in product portfolio management.

• Product Strategy: 2+ years of experience defining product strategies for Telcos and Enterprises, with a focus on SDN/NFV solutions.

• Telecom & Networking Knowledge: Proficiency in NFV/SDN, network slicing, virtualization, Kubernetes, OpenStack, and cloud networking.

• AI Exposure: Exposure to AI technologies and their application in networking environments.

• Lifecycle Management: Experience managing the product lifecycle in collaboration with cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Finance, Engineering).

• Product Marketing: Ability to create product collateral, market research reports, competitive analysis, and pricing models.

• Relationship Management: Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders.

• Business Case Development: Experience supporting the creation of business plans, financial models, and investment justifications.

• Industry Experience: Strong foundational knowledge of Telco and Edge environments, including networks and infrastructure.

• Communication Skills: Effective communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders and customers at various levels.

• Simplifying Complexity: Ability to break down complex technical issues into understandable and actionable insights.

• Execution Excellence: Experience in taking product initiatives from concept to completion, with a focus on agile, iterative delivery.