Product Manager

Job ID 74164-en_US Location Horsham - Pennsylvania

Everyone communicates. It's the essence of the human experience. How we communicate is evolving. Technology is reshaping the way we live, learn and thrive. The epicenter of this transformation is the network-our passion. Our experts are rethinking the purpose, role and usage of networks to help our customers increase bandwidth, expand capacity, enhance efficiency, speed deployment and simplify migration. From remote cell sites to massive sports arenas, from busy airports to state-of-the-art data centers- we provide the essential expertise and vital infrastructure your business needs to succeed. The world's most advanced networks rely on CommScope connectivity.

Job Description:

Opportunity to join the Product Management team as a Product Manager for the industry's leading Access Technologies product team, working with architectures and technologies such as HFC, RF, Optical Transport, FTTH/RFoG, Extended Spectrum DOCSIS 4.0, DAA, and RPD/RMD. We are looking for an enthusiastic product champion that can take total product line ownership & responsibility to help CommScope expand its leadership in this field. As a Product Manager you will:

• Increase the profitability of existing products and develop new products for CommScope, for our Outside Plant portfolio.
• Build products from existing ideas and help to develop new concepts based on your industry experience and contact with customers.
• Must be an effective communicator with both internal employees and external customers.
• Work with Engineering defining product release requirements, authoring detailed product requirements documents.
• Partner with Marketing Communications to define go-to-market strategy, product positioning and key benefits.
• Serve as the internal and external subject matter expert for your product offering, working with the Sales team and key customers.

The scope of this role requires a professional having wide-ranging experience and recognized as an individual contributor who uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.

• Work is accomplished without considerable direction. Exerts significant latitude in determining objectives of assignment.
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads multiple projects.
• Conducts extensive competitive analyses, assesses market dynamics and presents findings to business leaders.
• Defines significant product/service opportunities, analyses market position, and formulates business cases.
• Conducts financial analysis on new product proposals.
• Work closely with Supply Chain to ensure solid product supply.
• Drive response to customers RFI's and RFP's
• Performs other duties as required.
• Travel 25% of the time

Qualifications:

• Requires a Bachelor's Degree, MBA preferred
• 1-3 years of related experience preferred

• Proven track record of successful products & solutions launches
• Comprehensive knowledge of managing the complete product life cycle
• Understanding of Cable TV networks/products, including use cases and product requirements, preferred
• Excellent interpersonal skills including communication, presentations, motivation, target setting and team building
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to work and drive alignment within cross-functional teams

It is the policy of CommScope to provide Equal Employment Opportunities to all individuals based on merit, qualifications and abilities. CommScope does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy), national origin, age or any other characteristics as protected by law. Furthermore, this contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified protected veterans and qualified individuals on the basis of disability, and require affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities.

Req ID 74164