Job Description

Job Category: Product, Portfolio & Solution Management
Degree Level: Bachelor's degree
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At Nokia Fixed Networks (FN), you are joining a world leader in Telecommunication. We focus on constant innovation, developing the latest state-of-the-art Fixed Access products (Fiber/PON as well as Fixed Wireless) and management/controller solutions, resulting in a worldwide customer base. We offer an international working environment that is motivating, inspiring and rewarding with a great deal of attention to personal well-being.
You will be joining the FN Enterprise Team that is hosted in BBN (Broadband Networks BU). This Enterprise Team has strong focus on developing the Enterprise Market with an Optical LAN solution: responsibilities include Go-To-Market Strategy Definition, Partner Engagement, Product/Portfolio Management, a Center of Expertise (CoE) on Optical LAN End-to-End Solutions and an E2E validation team.
The product/portfolio management team on Optical LAN has strong focus on effectively defining and sustaining so-called blueprint solutions for the different market segments. This team owns the E2E solution, with focus on the evolution and the lifecycle support of all key building blocks of the solution: OLTs, ONTs and management solutions. All this in close cooperation with the respective PLM teams for these building blocks.
Responsibilities:

• Are you passionate about creating best-in-class innovative solutions for the growing LAN (campus) market, based on our strengths in PON technology? And do you like to work with our customers and partners in this space to jointly work the best-possible introduction scenarios with them? As part of the FN Enterprise team, you will:

Work closely with our partners, customers and (pre)sales teams to define and help develop the best-possible Optical LAN solution. With strong focus on supporting the "right" service models (L2/QoS models) per segment: understand them, and translate them into product requirements.
Closely cooperate with the FN PLM and R&D teams to come to an Enterprise roadmap, including proper handling of priorities and segmentation.
Continuously drive for product improvements, by using your in-depth technical market and product knowledge to improve and extend our existing portfolio.
We are looking for a team player with business accumen and with good product/technical background, who will work closely together with peer (R&D and PLM) groups across different functional teams. You can conceptualize the big picture as well as dive into product details to deliver qualitative output.
You will pro-actively discuss with new and existing customers on their required service model(s), and use this information to drive the (Enterprise) product roadmap.
Qualifications:
You have:
Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics & Communications, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent background
Good knowledge of networking & telecommunication concepts
Customer-focus: understand customer needs (and customer use cases), and translate this into product requirements
Strong interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills to many stakeholders: customers, partners, sales, pre-sales, PLM, R&D, NPI.
Ambition to grow in terms of business accumen (manage profitability) and customer interaction (convincing customers)
Good Technical Domain knowledge on L2 FWD, QoS, and related protocols
Good understanding of PON technology, solid knowledge of L2 switching architecture and most (or some) of protocols in the domain of Ethernet, VLAN handling, MAC handling, ARP, DHCP, IGMP, 802.1x, QoS, LLDP-MED, PoE
It would be if you also had:
Experience with customer-facing roles or responsibilities
Familiar with requirement capturing processes
Willingness to travel (for partners and/or customer site visits when needed)

Skills Required