Job Description

Location: Toronto, ON, CA

Req ID: 28567

Jobs by Category: Sales and Marketing

Job Function: Product Management & UX/UI Design

Status: Full Time

Schedule: Regular

Description

Business Unit Spotlight: #li-hybrid

You will be part of the Mobile Devices team, a dynamic, results oriented, learning-based organization that puts customers at the forefront of our product strategies. At Mobile Devices, our fun-loving attitude and our ability to rally behind one another allows our team to stand for and accomplish exceptional things that propel TELUS forward, while also evolving both professionally and personally along the way.
Here’s the impact you’ll make and what we’ll accomplish together

Do you have a passion for the latest tech, whilst cultivating strong relationships?

As a Senior Product Manager – Device Partnerships, you will own the relationship with industry leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners such as Google, Samsung and Apple. You will be a key contributor to the TELUS smartphone, watch and tablet roadmap strategy, where you will collaborate with a large group of cross-functional stakeholders to bring our OEM’s products and strategies to market. Along the way, you will rally a diverse set of stakeholders, both internally and with the OEMs directly, to accomplish big, audacious marketing goals to establish TELUS as the destination for the latest tech. You will be part of a 7 person team, but will partner with 60+ team members across other functions and numerous external partners as part of your day-to-day work.

Here’s how

• Identify, develop, implement, and optimize device roadmap strategies for TELUS that exceed customer expectations, whilst meeting profitability targets
• Cultivate strong relationships with OEM partners to identify device, and program, opportunities which strategically align for TELUS
• Champion your OEM partners across a diverse stakeholder group, including marketing, supply ops, technology strategy, channel, and digital, to bring programs and devices to market
• Lead a wide array of special projects with a focus on Smartwatches/Tablets, which will benefit your OEM partners whilst contributing to a wide range of TELUS strategic priorities
• Lead negotiations with OEM partners across a number of areas, including device launch term-sheets, marketing funding, in-store merchandising, device pricing, and Master Purchase Agreements
• Examine financial data, demand trends, and industry dynamics to identify new opportunities for TELUS and OEM partners

Qualifications

You’re the missing piece of the puzzle

• Outstanding strategic mindset, with a structured approach to analysis and the ability to articulate business rationale to support recommendations and negotiations
• Excellent relationship building and influencing skills with a proven ability to maintain strong cross functional relationships
• Proven ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities across a wide range of internal, and external, stakeholders
• Loves to solve ambiguous problems, and is able to think quickly, and creatively, on your feet
• Self-starter with proven ability to roll up their sleeves, and take complete ownership of a project
• Passionate, dynamic, and committed, looking to continuously raise the stakes in their role
• Effective communicator, comfortable having interactions with all levels of senior management both internally and externally

Great-to-haves

• Bachelor’s degree or similar post-secondary degree in business or marketing
• 4-6 years of equivalent experience in telecommunications, retail, or consumer packaged goods (CPG)