Product Proposition Lead

NEC Software Solutions; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical

Pension plan

25 days holiday

Life assurance

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

NEC Software Solutions is seeking a Product Proposition Lead to drive Entitlement Services’ new offerings and marketing strategy. You’ll work closely with Account Management, Service Delivery, and Marketing to shape propositions, develop collateral, and guide them into live environments.

You’ll lead market analysis, engage with customers, and coordinate cross-functional teams across the UK, traveling as needed to ensure successful delivery and revenue growth.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
• Solid knowledge of local government services and an understanding of politics.
• Strong influencing and negotiation abilities.
• Ability to read audiences and deliver clearly.
• Delivery-focused leadership of internal project teams and stakeholders.
• Commercially astute with cost models and delivery economics.
• Willingness to travel throughout the UK.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of Entitlement Services’ new service offerings in response to market needs.
• Collaborate with Account Management and Service Delivery to deploy propositions.
• Architect new services and manage them into a live environment.
• Enhance existing services with bolt-on opportunities.
• Streamline processes with service delivery to maximise gross margin and revenue.
• Support the Delivery Service Manager until projects are live.
• Develop marketing collateral with pilot customers and NEC Marketing Team.
• Provide sales and proposal collateral with Account Management to secure more business.
• Own Entitlement Services marketing communications and mid-term plan.
• Lead internal staff communications and engage colleagues with compelling content.
• Network with internal and external stakeholders and represent at events.
• Assist in bid and proposal writing and shape software/services wraparounds.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Marketing communications

Negotiation

Travel readiness

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Job description

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Job Description

In this role, you’ll be reporting directly to our Head of Entitlement Services, who looks after the delivery Team to ensure our strategic plans stay aligned with the overall strategy of the Entitlement Services business unit, and the wider NEC organisation.

As Product Proposition Lead, you will:

• Take the lead on the development of Entitlement Services’ new service offerings, meeting market needs through close liaison with the Entitlement Services Account Management Team and our customer community.
• Be supported by Account Management and Service Delivery colleagues to create and deploy new propositions.
• Assist in the architecture of new services and project manage them into a live environment.
• Enhance existing services through bolt on opportunities.
• Work with service delivery colleagues to streamline existing processes and maximise gross margin and revenue.
• Remain on hand to support the delivery Service Manager until projects are in a solid and established live state.
• Continue exploring further service opportunities during and following the implementation of projects.
• Work with pilot customers and NEC’s Marketing Team to produce marketing collateral to showcase new services.
• Work with Account Management colleagues to provide sales and proposal collateral to secure further business.
• Take the lead on all Entitlement Services marketing communications. Working with the NEC Marketing Team and owning the marketing mid-term plan.
• Head up internal staff communications. This is an important aspect of our commitment to colleague engagements, so it requires someone with a flair for creative writing.
• Work closely with the Lead Programme Manager who will input analytical information.
• Work closely with the Product Manager who will support with any PERFORM requirements.
• Successfully network, build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders such as NEC colleagues, third parties, customers and other organisations.
• Be a strong influencer with solid negation and communication skills.
• Represent Entitlement Services at internal and external events such as sales meetings, conferences and seminars.
• Assist in bid and proposal writing in line with the needs of the Entitlement Services business.
• Work with the wider NEC Revenues and Benefits community to shape software and services wraparounds.
• Produce high quality presentations and deliver these to internal and external audiences. Your presentation skills will need to be polished, and you’ll need the ability to deliver interactive and engaging content.
• Undertake market analysis activities such as SWOT and competitor analyses to establish Entitlement Services’ strength and weakness and detect opportunities and threats within the internal and external environment.

Qualifications

Here in Entitlement Services, we’re big on getting the right people for the right job. We invest a lot in our colleagues, and we want to help you succeed. To do that, you will:

• Have excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
• A solid knowledge of local and central government services as well as a strong understanding of politics.
• Be a strong influencer.
• Be able to read your audience.
• Take a delivery-focused approach in all you do.
• Be able to lead and motivate internal project teams, clients, third parties and any other applicable project stakeholders.
• Know how to work in a commercially astute way, making considered decisions based on an understanding of the facts and commercial perspective.
• Have a solid level of financial fluency to develop cost models in line with Entitlement Services’ costs of delivery.
• Know how to develop and execute strategies, implementing robust risk mitigation, control and evaluation processes.
• Have tenacity, and the ability to drive through projects and overcome issues and barriers which may arise.
• Be able and willing to travel throughout the UK.

Additional Information

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package, including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions, you are provided with the following:

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.

OTHER INFORMATION

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.
• All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks.
• Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process, please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.

Who We Are:

We’re NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.

Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.

We’d love your help. And we’ll support you all the way.