Junior Product Consultant

Summary

The job is for a Product Consultant role at NEC Software Solutions, responsible for leading the future product evolution for DIR and DEM Products. The ideal candidate should have a demonstrable track record in the safety sector and be able to conduct market research, develop product strategies, and manage the product lifecycle.

Requirements

• A demonstrable track record of working in the safety sector
• Ability to hold an audience of customers, technical people, partners and colleagues fully engaged and excited in furthering the product strategy and delivery
• Product insight. Ideas that inform direction and prioritisation
• Commercially savvy. Able to conduct accurate return on investment calculations to steer the products and that deliver desired commercial outcomes which result in both increased market share and profitable growth
• Excellent research skills. Research competitors, markets, customers, requirements and use it to inform the very best product strategies that lead to market leadership and commercial growth
• Decision maker. Able to make tough decisions in the best interests of the product, market, customer and company

Responsibilities

• Identifying potential products for the Safety sector
• Conducting market research and developing suitable product strategy documentation
• Generating product requirements at Roadmap and EPIC levels
• Determining specification, product life cycles, pricing, and time-integrated plans
• Ensuring products maximise revenue opportunities in terms of modularity – ensuring we can deploy at a range of price points and upsell additional capabilities over time
• Developing marketing strategies in collaboration with the marketing team
• Arrange, booking and running user groups
• Maintaining the User Community, ensuring regular product communications are shared that keep people excited and engaged
• Proactively manage the Product Lifecycle, communicating it regularly to the company and customers
• Build relationships with NECSWS colleagues to ensure that, where appropriate, our products are capable of being joined up at both business process and technological levels
• Understand technology and keep abreast with the latest technology
• Research competitors, relevant products, market trends and regularly updates their product strategy to meet the best commercial outcome
• Get to market fast by ensuring we create the smallest amount of technology possible by using open source and available technology

Benefits

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like