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Our Bell Business Markets team enables the digital transformation of businesses and governments nationwide through solutions in areas including Internet and private networks, voice and unified communications, contact centre, security, Internet of Things, data centre and cloud. We're proud to be Canada's leading provider of broadband network and communication services for businesses and governments.
Senior Product Manager, Cloud Hybrid/Edge Solutions
The Cloud Practice owns the strategy and overall market success for providing cloud transformation services to Canadian private and public sector organizations. This is an area of significant strategic importance and investment for Bell Business Markets. We are seeking a dynamic, results focused and self-driven Senior Product Manager, Edge Platform to join our growing team.
The Role:
We are currently seeking a Senior Product Manager who will define our platform services portfolio that will encompass edge infrastructure, platform and hybrid cloud/edge architecture and services.
As Senior Product Manager you will work with your Product Management colleagues to define and execute our strategic roadmap that not only solidifies a foundation today, but clearly positions BBM as a cloud leader for years to come. Hybrid and Edge solutions are a core pillar of our strategy.
This role requires strong technical, organizational and problem-solving skills and has the proven ability to engage internally and externally at senior levels to succinctly communicate vision, updates, identify challenges and solicit assistance if required. The ability to articulate and manage at the conceptual level as well as to dive deep into the solution details when required is critical to the role.
Job Duties/Accountabilities :

• Establish shared vision across BBM by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution
• Demonstrate flexibility and the ability to adapt to change in a fast-paced work environment
• Responsible for the full life-cycle of assigned Cloud products and related managed and professional services through close partnership with relevant resources throughout all phases.
• Create a go-to-market strategy to successfully launch new products and lead successful execution of this plan across functional teams.
• In conjunction with our marketing team, develop positioning and messaging that resonates with customers, relating product capabilities in terms that they understand, care about, and are willing to pay for.
• Ensure internal stakeholders are appropriately informed of product portfolio and its evolution/changes
• Assess our target market and identify opportunities using market research, segmentation analysis and 1:1 customer interviews.
• Perform competitive analysis, define and communicate key advantages.
• Communicating roadmap and technical capabilities to customers
• Assessing current and emerging technologies and market/industry trends in order to inform platform strategy
• Assisting in the development of business case justification and financials to support investments in platform

Critical Qualifications/Competencies:

• 5+ years of experience in product management/development;
• Experience in bundling cloud services to drive market traction is an asset
• Be able to clearly articulate product requirements and prioritize enhancement requests
• Ability to manage complex initiatives with limited supervision.
• Strong experience with public cloud (AWS, GPC or Azure - multiples a plus) infrastructure at scale
• At least 3 years of experience with distributed computing platform architectures leveraging the toolsets of least one of AWS, Azure or GCP
• Strong background and understanding in evolving data centre technologies from tradition compute, storage platforms and applications to hybrid and edge cloud solutions
• Understanding of Containerization and Container orchestration (Docker & Kubernetes) is highly valuable
• A solid grasp of how professional and advisory services plays a role in our customers journey and the ability to define relevant services
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as product management, engineering, UX/UI, sales, customer support, finance or marketing
• Demonstrated experience communicating and presenting from to C-Suite to practitioner
• Working knowledge of Scrum and Agile principles is an asset
• Project Management experience
• Bilingualism is an asset (English and French); adequate knowledge of French is required for positions in Quebec

Preferred Qualifications/Competencies :

• What you do revolves around our customers wherever they are in their cloud adoption journey: assess, migrate, operate, optimize
• You know how it all comes together: business, people, governance, platform, data, security, and operations
• You thrive operating in complex and matrixed environments and just get things done
• High energy, proactive and self-motivated, successful leading, and working across a matrix organization
• You love to innovate and embrace the change that comes with it
• A keen interest in the future of cloud services particularly in 5G/MEC, IoT, data analytics, etc.
• Ambitious and passionate, always seeking new opportunity and removing obstacles
• You see behind the numbers to get at opportunities whether they are growth, cost optimization or other
• You genuinely care about the team you work with and strive to nurture others

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Bilingualism is an asset (English and French); adequate knowledge of French is required for positions in Quebec.
Additional Information:
Position Type: Management
Job Status: Regular - Full Time
Job Location: Mississauga || Canada : New Brunswick : Fredericton || Canada : Nova Scotia : Halifax || Canada : Ontario : Mississauga || Canada : Ontario : Ottawa || Canada : Ontario : Toronto || Canada : Quebec : Montreal
Application Deadline: 11/18/2021
Please apply directly online to be considered for this role. Applications through email will not be accepted.
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