北京招聘

Responsibilities:

？ The Smart Gateways product manager function resides in the Solution Strategy and Portfolio Management Group (SSPM) of the Connected Home Division. Within SSPM there are different product categories : Smart Gateways, Core Gateways, Set Top Boxes, Tablet, Solutions and Professional Services. The product manager will be part of the Broadband Solutions

？ The SSPM group is responsible for defining the strategy and solutions of the connected home as well as ensuring a proper management of the portfolio of products.

？ The product managers within the SSPM group decide within the portfolio to develop new products either based on market evolutions (generic products) or specific customer requests. When the product has been fully defined and decision to start development has been granted the program manager takes over to initiate the developments and bring the product to mass production.

？ The portfolio offered covers the Smart Fiber Gateways on a WW basis.

？ As a product manager you will be responsible for the definition of new products your 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 products 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 quarterly strategy reviews to assess the profitability of your portfolio and the strategy to be followed and decisions to be taken for your portfolio

？ The function will be responsible determining product features in cooperation with the regions, customers and partners, and supporting the sales team in its pre-sales effort.

？ You will define the general pricing guidelines and customization framework for the regions

？ You will be responsible for the Gross Margin Contribution of your portfolio as well as the cost of your products

？ You are responsible for setting the Target Product Costs for your product portfolio

？ You ensure proper alignment with the regions to maintain a positive business plan for your product and find champions to introduce your product to customers

？ You will be supporting the APAC region 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 need to promote your product to the internal and external stakeholders

？ You will contribute to differentiating the Connected Home product portfolio by defining new innovative products and features as well as writing white papers, pitches etc

？ The function will also be responsible of key technology areas across the complete Connected Home portfolio in order to define technology roadmaps towards R&D together with architects

？ You represent the vision of the connected home and its customers towards the organization

？ The job entails frequent interaction with R&D , business unit and business division management team based in France, Belgium, the United Stated and China.

？ The job is based in the APAC region (Singapore or Beijing), 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

？ Your will be part of the SSPM team as and report to the Director of Smart Gateways product management.

Education:

？ Master degree in Civil Engineering or Industrial Engineering in IT/Electronics or equivalent

？ MBA is a strong added-value

Experience:

？ Proven background in product management

？ Proven experience in marketing functions or similar

？ Experience in the telecommunications sector is an added value

？ Proven experience in complex technological projects

？ Proven background in Fiber Technologies is a strong plus

？ You are familiar with Agile development techniques

？ Proven experience in Customer Management / Interactions

Commercial skills:

？ Main drive is to deliver working solutions to the customer

？ Must have the necessary presentation skills

？ Must be able to give a compelling presentation to customers both in oral and written form (ppt or alike)

？ The ideal candidate is an experienced business developer

？ He/She must be able to make the customer dream about the Technicolor Connected Home Solutions and persuade them to buy our smart gateways in the portfolio today.

？ Has good negotiation skills

？ Each customer problem needs to be solved and is an opportunity to do better

？ Must be able to present and defend vision to Sales and Customer

Technical skills:

？ Must have a solid background in GPON technologies

？ Knowledge of Wifi is a strong plus

？ Linux, Android, OSGi, Java, Web technologies, SDKs

？ Must have knowledge on Embedded Linux and open source

？ Must have a detailed view on networking SW stacks, Driver development etc.

？ Knowledge about home networking topologies and associated equipment is a plus

？ Affinity with latest technological developments

？ Affinity with /interest in evolution towards the Digital Home

？ Experience in chipset and hardware architecture is a plus

？ Knowledge of Embedded SW architectures and business models is a must

？ Experience in Agile development methodologies is a must

？ Broad view on Telecommunications technologies is required

4 DOCSIS, DSL, Fiber, LAN, TCP/IP, Network architectures…

Management skills:

？ Must be able to motivate and guide/steer a virtual multidisciplinary team

？ Inspiring : must be able to inspire the teams

？ Marketing experience in a Technological Environment is a must

Personality traits:

？ Communicative

？ Transparent

？ Teamplayer but being able to work independently

？ Analytic

？ Diligent

？ Leadership skills

？ Flexible

？ Dynamic/ Energetic

？ Able to cope with short deadlines

？ Stress resistant

？ Multitasking

？ Helicopter view but willing and able to go into the details

Language:

？ Fluent English is mandatory.

Key Competences:

？ Strategic thinking

？ Solution oriented

？ Leadership

？ Vision on Fiber market

？ Presentation Skills

？ Team Player