Job Responsibilities
- Engage and build relationships with key customers to promote and define product requirements and roadmaps.
- Use technical expertise with demonstrated urgency to support business development and sales primes with near-term revenue opportunities when required.
- Point of Contact for 3rd party fulfilment.
Inward facing role
- Own the product/portfolio lifecycle including innovation and the different stages of product lifecycle management.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing to achieve agreed campaign objectives.
- Work with engineering to develop/deliver product roadmap within Portfolio model.
- Enable sales and business development functions to optimally sell the product line/portfolio across segments.
- Coalesce requirements from internal functions and blend with market needs to set roadmaps.
- Responsible for product line profitability, top line growth, and market expansion.
- Work across different product lines of the business to understand synergies and drive a coherent go-to-market.
Job Requirements
Subject Matter Expertise
- Minimally Required: Recent Product Management Ownership in PNT or related field.
- Preferred/Specialised: Extensive past Product Management Ownership in PNT or related field.
- Minimally Required: Proven core GNSS (or related discipline) engineering knowledge.
- Preferred/Specialised: Recent professional background for technical engagement in GNSS or PNT (or related discipline) technology.
Influencing Organisations:
- Minimally Required: Ability to get cross-functional teams on-side to deliver goals.
- Preferred/Specialised: Experience of influencing upwards decision making to the exec level.
Proven Finisher:
- Minimally Required: Referenceable track record of completion of key projects.
- Preferred/Specialised: Ability to manage and complete multiple projects in parallel.
Attention to Detail for NPI Excellence:
- Minimally Required: Experience of Product Realization Process (PRP) or Similar.
- Preferred/Specialised: Clear examples of production of Market Requirement Documents and Business Cases with emphasis on technical services.
Academic Qualifications:
- Minimally Required: Graduate Degree in RF, Electrical Engineering or related field.
- Preferred/Specialised: Post Graduate Degree in RF, Electrical Engineering or related field.
Job Overview
The successful candidate will join a team of product managers responsible for the management of world-leading, innovative, state-of-the-art GNSS simulation and test solutions. This role focuses on solutions that are sold into our target markets including military, space, and commercial verticals. The product manager role will own the product life cycle from early stages of ideation through product release to end of life. Working closely with the PT engineering team, the role will bridge the BU to the customer's requirements ensuring that NPI is delivered on time to customer needs. Moreover, the successful candidate will need to be able to look across different product lines, identify synergies, and drive optimization. The role requires a good level of product knowledge and engineering expertise to successfully influence customers and internal Spirent PT functional groups. This must be blended with demonstrable commercial knowledge and market understanding to ensure product fit and build relationships with key customers.
About Spirent Communications
Spirent is the leading global provider of automated test and assurance solutions for communications networks, cybersecurity, and positioning. We provide innovative products, services, and managed solutions that address the test, assurance, and automation challenges of a new generation of technologies, including 5G, cloud, autonomous vehicles, and beyond. From testing in the lab to testing in the real world, Spirent helps companies deliver on their promise to their customers of a new generation of connected devices and technologies.
Why Spirent?... Because together we can shape tomorrow!
Spirent is its people. When you join the Spirent team, you will join forces and work alongside some of the industry’s most passionate subject matter experts. In an environment of innovation, you will find a place where you can grow, think, explore, create, and make change happen. At Spirent, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to thriving in the ever-changing world of global technology. We embrace a culture where difference is valued and openness, mutual respect, collaboration, and fairness are considered fundamental. Spirent does not tolerate discrimination or offensive behaviour of any kind. We are committed to creating workplaces that genuinely reflect the diversity of the world we serve and an environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic self to work.
Your success is vital to our success, which is why we will support you to perform, grow, and contribute – with the confidence to be yourself. And to support your personal wellbeing, we hope you will love our dedication to creating the right work and life balance experience!
Join Spirent and together let’s shape tomorrow!
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