Fiber Optic Network Analyst
About The Position
The Fiber Optic Network Analyst is an integral part of the value creation team, a critical component of COC’s Carrier and Enterprise business unit. This team exists to create and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage which relies on deep market knowledge and ensuring understanding of the value proposition and positioning of our products and services. This position is responsible for identifying portfolio gaps, supporting product development initiatives, and driving the adoption of new, innovative solutions in the focus area of FTTx and Enterprise markets. This position also serves as a subject matter expert in the identification, articulation and training of our commercial teams and customers of value propositions to best position and promote new and existing FTTX and/or enterprise products. This role is responsible for identifying the critical pain points of our customer’s engineering, installation methods and maintenance processes. This position works with internal cross functional teams to innovate differentiated solutions that can enhance and build our product and solutions portfolios to create value for our business and our customers.
Requirements
- BS or BA degree in Telecommunications, Network Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics Technician Technology, Business, or related field
- Minimum 4 years of experience in fiber optic network application engineering, technology, technical sales, or product line management
Nice To Haves
- MBA is desired with strategy and/or entrepreneurial focus areas
Responsibilities
- Understand the competitive market environment, industry standards and competitive product solutions offered for assigned applications (ie. CO/HE hardware, MDUs, OSP hardware, LANs, Datacenter, Security, etc)
- Support value-based price analysis of new components and solutions in the carrier/enterprise space; identify optimal price points and explore pricing and adoption trade-offs; provide suggested pricing strategies to PLM
- Lead our Customer Insight Research (CIR) process to engage and understand current and future problems of our customers leveraging innovation tools (ie, workflow documentation, business model canvas, empathy maps, etc)
- Identify product solutions that may not currently be in our portfolio and determine strategy to develop, partner or acquire to provide
- Utilize decision analysis tools to prioritize our technology investment and choices of engagement , and develop business cases to support investment in new product solution development
Benefits
- Company-wide bonuses
- Long-term incentives
- 100% company-paid pension benefit
- Matching contributions to 401(k) savings plan
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Family building support
- Fitness
- Company-paid life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Disease management programs
- Paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Recognition program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
