Junior Product Consultant - Stepping up Opportunity

Company Description

Come join us and make a difference in the world!

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Job Description

Purpose of job

A Product Consultant is responsible for managing a set of products or product lines over the life of the product from ideation through development, launch sale, and finally discontinuance. They interface between the market and the product team during development representing the voice of the customer.

This role is to lead the future product evolution for DIR and DEM Products. This position will be supported and mentored by the Head of Product Management.

We are looking at someone who can demonstrate the ability and willingness to learn and develop as a product manager. The ideal candidate will be in their early career within the industry. 

Note: Please note, the shortlisted candidate would need to go through SC Clearance and hence would need to be in the UK for the last 5years.

Organisational reporting

Head of Product Management - Evidence and Insights 

Location

Home based with travel to London, NECSWS offices and customer sites.

Salary Budget:

Up to £40,000

Key Duties

• 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
• Ensure that 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

Qualifications

Skills and experiences

• 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.

Additional Information

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package, including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions, you are provided with the following:

• 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. 

OTHER INFORMATION

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.
• All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks. 
• Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required and SC clearance. This will require the candidate to be living in country for the past 5 years.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process, please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.

Who We Are:

We’re NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.

Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.

We’d love your help. And we’ll support you all the way.