Job Description
At epic we are driven by autonomy, efficiency, and innovation, as we believe that these elements pave the way to epic craft! We empower our employees to work on things that they are passionate about. With us, you will be given great benefits and working conditions.
We pride ourselves on delivering a great network for great value to our customers and we do so by focusing on the customer, collaborating as one team.
At epic you will not just be joining, you will be adding as someone who has a keen eye for gaps in consumer product offerings and the innovative mindset to fill them. In fact, you shall be responsible for both product strategic and tactical planning and product marketing. This includes you having a proven ability to strategize the full lifecycle of product production – from conception through release by gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working with product design, to deliver winning products. It also includes working with sales and brand to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. You’ll also ensure that the product and marketing efforts support the company’s overall strategy and goals. You may already be a confident leader who has experience guiding cross-functional teams in the successful creation of products that improve consumer experience and grow market share.
Objectives of this role
- Be in touch with the market and truly understand the customer to be able to lead the product and business-planning process across cross-functional teams of the company.
- Analyse consumer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from an ROI.
- Assess current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation.
- Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate to-market plans.
- Develop, implement, and maintain marketing timelines across multiple departments.
- Develop tactical product offerings and sales commissions / competitions to reach P&L targets.
Responsibilities of this role
- Execute all product lifecycle processes for products, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, product roadmap development, product requirements and launch.
- Create product strategy documents that describe business cases and pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals, high-level use cases and product requirements.
- Analyse market data to develop sales strategies, and define product objectives for effective marketing communications plans, together with being an expert with respect to the competition.
- Collaborate closely with Product Design, Brand, and Sales teams on the development and release of products.
- Obtain product market share by working with the Head of Sales to develop product sales strategies.
- Develop product core positioning and messaging that differentiates the company and its features across primary market segments
- Closely monitor daily performance against targets and devise plans / offers / commission strategies / product positioning in direct and reseller markets with the aim of reaching set goals.
- Provide information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product customer sales and revenue forecasts and special reports and analyses; answer questions and requests.
Requirements
- Demonstrated success in Project Management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including exceptional presentation and public speaking skills.
- Ability to draw conclusions from a dataset.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products.
- Be proactive and able to work on your own initiative.
- Capable of working under pressure.
- Previous experience in a similar role within the telecommunications industry will be considered advantageous but not necessary.
