Senior Product Manager

**Come create the technology that helps the world act together**

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

**The team you'll be part of**

As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible. As an integral part of the Converged Charging Product Line Management team, a self-motivated, accountable, results-oriented professional will drive innovation in defining the features and functions of leading-edge converged charging as part of the Nokia Charging portfolio, and work with customers and sales and regional business development teams.

**What you will learn and contribute to**

Are you passionate about creating solutions, solving problems and developing skills in the latest, cutting edge networks?

**As part of our team, you will**:

- Work with various external and internal actors (customers, R&D teams, technical marketing, business development, technical sales and sales) to identify, define, promote, and deliver new capabilities for converged charging. Be the best solution and product advocate to peers, management, sales.
- Translate customer needs into clearly defined solution and product requirements considering available solutions and competitive environment.
- Drive product requirements into the product management team and ensure the successful delivery and implementation of product roadmap,
- Manage the entire product lifecycle starting from conception to launch and finally end of life.
- Track customer opportunities, define and drive next steps toward success for each one while keeping revenue generation in mind.
- Build business cases for new business development and obtain executive buy in for new initiatives.
- Keep current on competitive environment and technologies to support responses to vulnerabilities and leverage strengths and differentiators.
- Support other PLMs in market analysis, cost analysis, pricing analysis and forecasting.
- Build trusted relationships and be able to influence key executives

**Your skills and experience**

**You have**:

- Degree in computer science, software, systems engineering, or relevant related field is required. Graduate degree preferred; MBA in addition to technical degree is an asset.
- 5 years of telecom billing and invoicing experience in either network operator or vendor.
- 5 years of product management or pre-sales experience with a demonstrated understanding of market requirements for charging and billing systems.
- Business acumen.
- Excellent understanding of the industry landscape, including customers, potential partners, direct competitors, competing and emerging technologies and architectures.
- Experience and demonstrated ability in identifying changing business models, and ability to associate these to changing solution/product and architecture requirement.
- Ability to work collaboratively across many teams within the organization including sales, business development/technical sales, product management, marketing, services & support, R&D, documentation, manufacturing, operations, program and release management.
- Solid technical and operational understanding of service provider charging and billing systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills: ability to communicate technology strategy and architecture approach to engineers, executives, and customers.
- Ability and flexibility to develop and deliver presentations to a wide variety of audiences and to define and participate in product demonstrations during conferences, trade shows.
- Strong consulting skills to work with both external and internal customers and suppliers, sometimes for understanding and sometimes for driving product and architectures, features, constraints, and limits.
- Proficiency in conflict management and negotiation, with abilities to influence and lead others.
- Strong organizational and project management skills; autonomy and ability to manage competing demands
- High energy; willingness to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Ability to work in both high-level, strategic context and pragmatic execution of specific projects with practical constraints on network functional requirements and schedules and product or feature constraints.
- Ability to forge trusted relationships using an open and respectful communication and collaboration style.

**What we offer**

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous l