Senior Manager, 5G Advanced Network Solutions ANS Product Management

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The Senior Manager, 5G Advanced Network Solutions (ANS) Product Management is a strategist, analyst, customer evangelist, respected leader of execution, and professional relationship builder who is focused on driving innovative and transformational solutions. Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, in this role you will be ultimately accountable and responsible for developing T-Mobile's 5G Advanced Network Solutions portfolio, creating transformational connectivity solutions across the entirety of industries in T-Mobile’s customer base.

As Senior Manager, 5G ANS Product Management you will define long-term strategy of the product portfolio; align the various product road maps; help drive and support technical delivery end to end; define the scope for releases/product increments; partner with T-Mobile’s Marketing, Sales and Technology teams as well as external partners.

You will work closely with T-Mobile and its partners to facilitate high-level meetings between executives and key stakeholders to promote and advocate for 5G ANS products objectives. In addition, you will help deliver customer trials and solutions, working to investigate, collaborate, deploy and support on-site customer use cases, documenting and demonstrating to our customers their return on investment and a realization of the value of T-Mobile’s 5G ANS solutions portfolio.

Senior Manager, 5G ANS Product Management is a well-rounded individual leveraging deep customer empathy, strategic thinking, detailed project planning and execution, commercial, analytical, and leadership prowess to successfully deliver delightful and differentiated products that drive growth.

The 5G ANS team leverages advanced 5G technologies like Network Slicing, Local Breakout, and Private 5G Networks to create business outcomes, so an ideal candidate would be familiar with 5G Network technology, as well as key challenges and strengths.

Job Overview

Works in collaboration with the Senior Director and peers to develop strategy, plan, goals (outcomes) for their scope of business. Collaboration should extend to customer teams and groups, as well as close working teams within product and technology teams.

Drive cross-functional alignments with various teams including Engineering, Business Assurance, Financial Operations and Accounting teams to understand current product experiences, identifies areas of opportunity and prioritize feature development.

Maintains current understanding of the Wireless Industry trends for Enterprises. Assesses how trends impact the roadmap or create opportunity for innovation of the products. Collaborates with partners and vendors in analyzing the potential impacts and incorporates analyses into product process.

Sr. Manager will also own lifecycle management of multiple products. The responsibilities include creating, managing, maintaining, and communicating product vision and roadmap. Supporting development of business cases for product development and owns the product vision and roadmap.

Develops change management and regularly cascades Vision, Strategy to align goals with corporate priorities from executives to direct reports.

Regularly provides review and guidance to Product Management team & Vendor on execution related responsibilities. This includes:

Drives accountability, from both T-Mobile and vendors regarding implementation, service levels and adherence to T-Mobile’s contractual terms.

Ensures Product Team follows enterprise process to secure and maintain product funding. Works to resolve any blockers or issues with product funding.

Coordinates activities/communication between internal teams and vendors.

Partners with leadership to help determine back-office budget for projects, products, and areas of improvement on cost savings and service quality.

Represent T-Mobile as a primary contact with the Vendor for performance, quarterly business reviews, escalations, and issue resolution. Build and maintain relationships with vendor leadership to align and manage expectations of services delivery/reliability.

Assists direct reports with ongoing prioritization and resource allocation to ensure scope and outcomes are delivered.

Collaborates and contributes to creation of development plans for each direct report