Product Manager

Identifies and generate telecom and data center business opportunities in collaboration with Sales team through broad technical level expertise, business understanding and cross functional interaction with sales, R&D, operations, and supply chain. This position requires a professional who can demonstrate strong knowledge, optical networks, telecommunications and data centers.

Advanced business development, technical and marketing skills are a must as the Product Manager interacts with internal and external business partners and customers.

The successful candidate can operate under minimal supervision, is a self-motivated, fast learner and is highly competent in identifying and executing strategies to develop new product and business opportunities for Prysmian’s optical cable and connectivity solutions.

Your daily duties will include, and You will be responsible on the following:

• Develops and maintains strong relationships with cloud, colocation and telecom operators to influence customer strategic decisions as well as network deployments
• Work closely with sales and R&D leadership to implement and execute strategies to develop new business opportunities for advanced optical cabling systems
• Coordinate with Prysmian’s international sales teams to open business development interactions with strategic customers
• Understand customer business and product requirements, coordinate with sales and R&D teams the enhancement portfolio to the needs of the customers, telecom and cloud markets
• Recognize market and technological trends, uses market research and attends tradeshows to anticipate future directions for the portfolio and identify innovation opportunities
• Drives successful launch of new products, provides guidance to optimize current product portfolio and forecasts
• Support Sales with bid tendering process
• Provides competitive information

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a candidate, who has:

• Ability to identify and create a professional network within the data center and telecom ecosystems
• Capable of driving business development activities
• Strong knowledge in optical networks, data centers and telecommunications
• Champion of organizational change initiatives, calculated risk-taker and strong ability to identify innovative opportunities to increase revenue and profit
• Excellent leadership, business acumen, organization and decision-making skills
• Strong collaborative skills with internal and external business partners, experience working in an international team
• Excellent communication skills and experience interacting with senior executives both internally and externally

Competencies

• Self-starter with the ability to communicate and interact with customers at high levels
• Leading change, and pro-active approach in promoting innovation at customers
• Autonomous and results-oriented
• Strong planning, organizational and prioritization skills

Experience

Education:

Degree in an electronics, optics or communication engineering discipline

Background:

3-5 years of relevant experience in the telecom industry. Product management and or business development experience within a strongly technical organization

Language:

In order to interface with all Prysmian manufacturing locations and customers Product Line Manager must be fluent in English. Additionally, Swedish or Danish are a plus.

Location:

This position is based in Delft (NL) and requires regular international travels within North Europe perimeter, mainly Scandinavia (30-50% time)