Product Manager - Utilities - Arqiva : Job Details

Overview

The Product Manager will own products, lead Arqiva’s developments on LPWAN and be familiar with the market and technology trends. You will generate new ideas and drive improvements to increase market share. We need someone who is innovative and creative in their approach with a strong Product Management background and specific industry experience.

To focus on all segments, with water metering and sensoring is a priority. You will own the product vision and roadmap for LPWAN transport options and drive alignment towards it across the business and with external partners. The Product Manager will work with the rest of the Utilities product team to drive alignment of our offerings across the portfolio.

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.

We offer

• Competitive base salary
• 10% Bonus
• 6% pension contribution
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture

The role

• Maximise growth in metering and sensoring and deliver critical product development activities and product management best practice
• Own and drive the Arqiva vision and strategy for growth of LPWAN products to support utilities solutions Informed by market standards and technology trends and Informed by customer needs
• Business case creation for technology investments in LPWAN to Maximise sales opportunity with new capabilities on roadmap
• Drive Innovation especially based on technology, market trends eg myIOT
• assess/prioritise/ sequence change / project requests vs roadmap
• lifecycle management - resulting capability improvements
• Oversight of performance against products: manage early life issues. continuous service improvement , scaling, optimisation and improvements
• Product lead for engagement with partners suppliers (Sensus, MNO, Manufacturers) for product roadmap and development activities
• Understand supplier contracts and support their management
• Unify and align views from across the business to enable product innovation
• Drive alignment between water metering and energy developments
• Contribute to and promote product mangement best practice in Arqiva

The person

• Product management experience in B2B environment
• Commercial, technology and/or operational experience
• Understanding of LPWAN technology and market
• Knowledge of LoraWAn, nbIOT, customer expectations and customer needs
• Knowledge of waterfall and agile product development methodologies
• Significant experience acting as a product owner in a cross functional product development process

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.

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