Product Manager at Telvida Communications Services

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos

Job Description

• Investigate and develop a deep understanding of customer experience.
• Generate new ideas to fill gaps in products, improve customer satisfaction, and grow market share.
• Create buy-in for the product vision with internal and external stakeholders instead of pushing ideas and causing resistance.
• Prepare a comprehensive product strategy, including a roadmap and strategy for pricing and positioning.
• Translate the chosen strategies into detailed requirements and prototypes for testing.
• Analyze the scope of activities and prioritize tasks based on business and customer impact.
• Propose overall budget to accomplish goals, given the resources and timelines.
• Set pricing to meet the revenue and profitability targets and present regular revenue forecasts.
• Work collaboratively with engineering, software development team and other functional teams to deliver the product.
• Achieve a quick time-to-market with optimal resources.
• Prepare sales tools and collateral; brief and train sales staff to get the desired results.
• Supervise product launches alongside top executives, Public Relations (PR) teams, and product management team members.
• Evaluate consistency of promotional plans with product line strategy.
• Ensure that the intended branding messages are conveyed effectively to the target audience.
• Act as a product evangelist, increasing awareness about the product and its features.
• Visit customers and clients to solicit feedback on the product and services.
• Represent the company at client meetings, product demonstrations, launch events, conferences, etc.

Requirements

• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred.
• A minimum of 2 years work experience.
• Proven work experience in product management or as a product manager
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management.
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
• A professional certificate in the field is an added advantage.