As Senior Director of Hardware Product Management, you'll lead the strategic direction and execution of Nokia's hardware portfolio, ensuring alignment with our overall business strategy. You'll translate market needs into innovative products and solutions, driving their successful launch and lifecycle management. This role demands a deep understanding of product positioning, business models, and market dynamics, while collaborating closely with R&D, technology, and our customer base to deliver exceptional hardware experiences.

Impact

Impact is short to medium term and influences business unit results and/or customer relationships. Accountable for setting function/program goals, managing cost performance and ensuring achievement through people and processes. Decisions and actions will normally impact business, program, project, function. Predominant authority for development of new products, processes, standards or operational plans based upon business strategy. 

Scope & Contribution

Individual Contributor: Typically highest level of individual contributor in job family. Demonstrates strategic thinking, assumes broad perspective. Designs and/or develops original programs, projects, content for functional subject areas. Manages implementation/utilization through other organisation resources. Authorised to take decisions within responsibility area. Managerial/Supervisory: Typically third (occasionally second) level of solid line management. Translates strategy into actionable programs, operations or activities. Clear strategic elements. Authorised to take decisions within responsibility area. Involved with and responsible for integrating or coordination with other businesses or functions. May include geographic coordination of functions or global functional/unit.

Innovation

High degree of independence within agreed policies, targets and budgets. Problem solving generally requires research and creative thought. Develops and applies new, innovative approaches to complex or infrequently occurring problems. Formulates operational guidelines. Ensures immediate working environment encourages innovation.Stretches beyond comfort zone to support a variety of senior roles and deliver business value in changing business environments.

Communication

Operates mostly at the senior level of the business with a global mindset and in many different environments (e.g. outside of home country, new business unit/entity, different cultures).Negotiates and compromises to influence internal and external parties who may have conflicting objectives to accept concepts, practices and approaches.Requires communication with senior executive leadership ( internal / external) and creation of a collaborative working environment e.g. in engaging and inspiring manner

Knowledge & Experience

Management experience across several functional areas or businesses. Mastery of a specific professional discipline combining deep knowledge of theory and practice or expertise across several different disciplines within a function. Command of content of sub function. Recognised thought leader. Typically requires 10-12 years extensive relevant experience and/or a graduate / postgraduate equivalent degree. PhD degree would normally be expected in R&D stream.

 

• Anticipates internal and external business challenges and / or regulatory issues and drives process, product or service improvements that create competitive advantage.

• Responsible for alignment between sales team and customer on key product priorities, trusted advisor of the product roadmap to the customer.

• Sets guidelines and criteria for the definition of processes and standards.

• Combines profound professional expertise with a holistic sense of the business and commercial environment and understands how the job contributes to achieving the objectives of the business.

• Significantly influences strategic decisions in the professional area through expertise, in turn impacting the performance of the sub-function to create competitive advantage.

• Solves highly complex problems and develops original and innovative solutions with a broad impact on the business.

• Monitors and guides professional development and the strategy for a business-relevant organizational unit.

• Is an acknowledged and externally visible authority and strategic expert, typically within a key business function.

• Often leads projects with significant risk and complexity and develops project strategy.

• Accountable for the effective execution of key financial KPIs (P&L).