Senior Product Planning Manager
Location:
Round Rock, Tx
Reference Code:
12000CFJ
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Senior Product Planning Manager - Converged Infrastructure Solutions
Senior Product Planning Manager, Converged Infrastructure Solutions
Working in one of the most exciting and fast moving growth markets in IT, Dell is looking for a Senior Product Planning Manager to work across the Enterprise Solutions Group to help with long term roadmap planning of Dells Converged Infrastructure solutions. The role is a key position in helping further Dells transformation into the Solutions Cloud arena in the Enterprise IT marketplace. The position will report into the Virtualization Private Cloud group.
The charter of the organization is to further develop Dells offering as customers move from physical to virtual and then on to hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions as well as help customers profile, deploy and manage applications and workloads in this new Virtual Era. An essential part of this journey is to understand and deploy Converged Infrastructure solutions, made up of server, network, storage, hypervisors and management software elements etc. A Gartner survey data states that 50% of large enterprises have a strategic plan for approaching change in their data center that includes an integrated converged roadmap. Dells Converged Infrastructure solutions are focused on helping customers with efficient procurement, configuration, deployment and on-going management of infrastructure elements such as servers, storage, networking, hypervisors etc and serve as a strong foundation for private and hybrid cloud solutions built using Dells VIS architecture.
Dell is searching for a senior marketing professional with extensive experience in planning and managing enterprise class IT infrastructure hardware and software products through all phases of the product life cycle, including concept, definition, planning, development and implementation.
This role will be based in Round Rock, TX and have worldwide responsibility in planning and development of the product portfolio for Dells Converged Infrastructure solutions. As the term implies, development of a converged product roadmap will involve driving product requirements into and aligning with individual server, storage, networking and systems management roadmaps. The successful candidate will work with LOB product marketing, regional marketing, CTO, strategy, outbound marketing, technical marketing, sales, finance and engineering teams to produce compelling product concepts and roadmaps for the Converged Infrastructure solutions portfolio. Besides interacting with internal product teams, this role will also require working with vendors ranging from very large to small start-up organizations that would supply Dell with products and technologies that can be incorporated within the Converged Infrastructure portfolio.
To be successful in this role, a very broad knowledge around data center hardware and software products and technologies is required. The successful candidate must have deep understanding of server, storage and networking industry and must be familiar with new hardware and management software trends across these domains e.g. IO Virtualization (IOV), IO Aggregation (IOA), Software based networking, iSCSI, FCoE, SAN booting, profile based system configuration and physical to physical and physical to virtual workload mobility technologies etc. Technical domain knowledge and expertise in one or more new data center software technologies is required virtualization hypervisors and management software from VMware, Microsoft etc, virtualization security, cloud computing, service orchestration, capacity planning and performance optimization etc. Familiarity with technologies that run Ciscos Unified Computing System (UCS), HPs BladeSystem/CloudSystem Matrix, VCEs vBlock and NetApps FlexPod etc is extremely valuable. Experience with IT management software from BMC, CA, HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli etc is advantageous and knowledge of industry standard IT practices such as ITIL, ITMS concepts and implementation is preferred.
Major Functional areas
Market Trends and Analysis
- Understand the current future trends in the Converged Infrastructure configuration, deployment, operations and management space and evaluate which ones would make commercial and economic sense for Dell to pursue: business models, technologies, application areas etc
- Partner product Eco-systems analysis to determine best fit for Dell's product plans
- Analyze the competitive landscape
Roadmap and business case
- Defining Dell's long term roadmaps for Converged Infrastructure hardware and software products, services and solution offerings in the datacenter management market.
- Produce the financial business cases that support the roadmap decisions
- Determine who and how we'd bring the proposed solutions to market
- Get executive buy-ins on concepts and stages along the product development process
Customer Needs Analysis and Outreach, Industry Trend Analysis
- Driving relationships with industry analysts, developing and communicating Dell's Enterprise direction
- Driving customer outreach activities including presentations at Dell's Executive Briefing Center, customer road shows, and traditional primary research activities
- Attendance and presentation at key Enterprise IT industry events
Internal Stakeholder Analysis
- Interact extensively with Dells cross-functional marketing and engineering product teams in the server, storage, networking and systems management organizations
- Align with CTO office and Advanced Engineering teams
- Work with Dell's Sales Force to understand customer demand and in which vertical and/or horizontal markets to target, develop GTM plans etc
- Work with Outbound Marketing, Technical Marketing and Corporate communications on defining our market message for the Enterprise business and execute on GTM activities
Qualifications
- 10-12+ years experience with IT infrastructure products
- Prior experience in product management and technical leadership roles within one or more Converged Infrastructure areas below:
- server, storage, networking, converged systems management, virtualization management or cloud computing companies required
- Familiarity with Converged Infrastructure market, major players and their positioning, strategy etc in the legacy and virtualized data center space
- Understanding of hardware and software development methodologies; Agile process familiarity preferred
- Hands on IT Management experience preferred
- Strategic analysis and business modeling skills
- Executive level verbal and written communication skills
- Passionate leader, self-motivated, multi-tasker, team player able to deal with intense pressure and lead in cross-functional settings
- Required: Masters degree with 10-12+ years professional experience. MBA preferred.
Educational Requirements: Masters degree with 10-15+ years professional experience. MBA preferred.
Dell offers:
-Opportunity to work with a strong brand at one of the world's largest IT solutions providers
-Dynamic, challenging, international work environment
-A team with a high level of energy, integrity and motivation to win
-Exciting internal career opportunities
-A commitment to diversity and inclusion
-Competitive compensation including bonus plans a great benefit package
-An individual professional development plan
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