Position Summary

Are you organized, methodical & structured?

Do you enjoy working & leading people?

Are you an experienced business manager?

Bell’s National Hosting Service team is looking for a Product Manager and Team Lead to manage & guide the company’s data centre business unit. The role involves managing the ongoing business, reviewing & revamping business processes, monitoring performance as well as setting the go-forward strategy & future product roadmap. Reporting to the Director of Product Management for Hosting & Cloud Computing, you will be working in a fast paced environment on a number of strategically important projects & new product introductions.

Division Overview

Bell Hosting is the home of managed IT data centre & cloud computing services within Bell Canada. We manage several state-of-the-art data centers across the country (Calgary, Toronto & Montreal) and work with our clients to provide the highest level of security, redundancy and monitoring available. Our product offering includes traditional co-location, managed hosting services, as well as new cloud based services including Virtual Data Centre & Software-as-a-Service offers.

Position Detail

As the Product Manager & Team Lead for Bell Hosting, your tasks will include

Manage the Existing Business

Track financial performance & monitor the funnel

Review KPIs and report on the progress relative to plan

Analyze deals

Review annual revenue, COGS & capital budgets with Bell Finance

Manage ongoing projects

Track the status & performance of existing capital expansion projects & data centre expansions

Guide your team

Work with & establish guidelines for your team members (2-3 product managers)

Set organizational structure, personal & professional objectives

Expand product line & Set product strategy

Working with the Operations team, review existing product line and identify gaps

Create business cases for future product & facility introductions

Track the status of existing business cases & make recommendations on how to improve performance of the unit overall

Coordinate marketing, messaging

Working with your colleagues & Marketing & Marketing Communications, set the Bell Hosting Marketing Strategy, establish tactics

Required Knowledge & Qualifications

A self-starter with demonstrated initiative, enthusiasm & energy

Previous product management experience

Superior written skills, capable of writing marketing documentation, product descriptions & other sales related materials

Knowledge of hosting & cloud products & services with a basic technical background in the following areas

Cloud Services – Virtualization, Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Platforms as a Service, and general cloud definitions

IT Services – Servers, Storage, Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Firewalls, VPNs, Backups, Monitoring

Networking – IP Addressing, NAT, BGP, Peering, Routing, Ethernet, MPLS

Fundamental costing & financial analysis expertise

Activity based costing

Gross margin, EBITDA & Contribution Margins

Understanding of Discounted Cash Flows & Present Value  calculations a plus

Experience with project management, process management & redesign

Experience with the Bell NPI process is a plus

Desired Knowledge & Qualifications

Previous financial analysis & business/reporting analyst experience

Extensive Microsoft Excel experience

Financial modeling , Advanced Excel tool design

Bilingualism

Additional Information:

Position Type: Full time permanent – CP3

Company name: Bell Canada
Resource person's name:  Sharon Inkster
Date Candidate Required: ASAP
Application Deadline:  2010 10-20

Job Location: GTA or Montreal

Employee Referral Bonus: $1500.

The masculine and feminine used in this job offer refer equally to employees of both sexes and in no way represent a particular distinction based on gender. Bell is an equal opportunity employer.
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