Wholesale Product Manager

Job Title: Wholesale Product Manager

Location: Irlam

The Purpose of the Role
As the Wholesale Product Manager, your primary purpose is to define a product's strategy, vision, and roadmap, ensuring it meets user needs, aligns with business goals, and is successfully developed and launched throughout its lifecycle. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales, while gathering and analysing user feedback to guide product development decisions.

Core Responsibilities

• Ownership of wholesale product description documents, including creation and updates.

• Defining the key features, specifications, and requirements of the products.

• Developing product roadmaps through insights from market research, competition analysis, and evaluation.

• Establishing strategies for wholesale product pricing and positioning.

• Managing the budgets of multi-disciplinary teams involved with product development.

• Performing profit analysis and forecasting to develop or improve product marketing strategies.

• Creating project timelines and implementation schedules across all functional areas.

• Ensuring a successful product launch across key areas, especially sales and operations.

• Staying ahead of and competing with the competition.

• Developing marketing collateral, including battle cards for partners/retail.

• Managing CPE requirements, procurement, and future-proofing (e.g., white box CPE, virtual functionality).

• Overseeing product onboarding, including:

  • Processes and procedures.

  • Operational readiness.

  • Cross-functional team alignment.

  • System integration.

  • Testing.

  • Over-the-top services.

  • Managing network-to-network interfaces.

• Defining product pricing.

• Creating business cases in line with the product roadmap.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in product management or a related role in the telecoms industry.

• Technical expertise within telecoms to support product descriptions.

• Knowledge of every aspect of the product development life cycle.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong experience in a dynamic product management role.

• Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle.

• High effectiveness in managing cross-functional teams.

• Ability to create product development and marketing strategies.

• Strong leadership and project management skills.

• In-depth knowledge of the industry and product’s users.

• Exceptional writing and editing skills, combined with strong presentation and public speaking abilities.

• Experience in delivering finely tuned product marketing strategies.

• Ability to analyse complex data to identify market trends and customer behaviour.

Qualifications

• Proven success as a product developer in a non-managerial role.

• Demonstrable knowledge of SEM (search engine marketing) and online advertising.

• Degree-level qualification.

• Project management qualifications.

• Marketing experience.

Personal Attributes

• Leadership skills.

• Strong communication skills.

• Analytical thinking.

• Ability to build relationships.

• Excellent negotiation skills.

• Customer-centric mindset.

Working Environment & Benefits
The company operates in a relaxed and industrious atmosphere where employees are encouraged to contribute their ideas and expertise. Flexible working arrangements are available, including remote work options, to support a healthy work-life balance. Employees receive an attractive package that includes a bonus, generous pension, private healthcare, flexible working options, and additional benefits.