Datacenter Strategist

**Join us in creating the technology that helps the world act together**

We are a B2B technology innovation leader pioneering the future where networks meet cloud. At Nokia you will have a positive impact on people’s lives and help build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and accessible world.

Be part of a culture built on an inclusive way of working where we are open to your ideas, you are empowered to take risks and are encouraged to be fearless in bringing your authentic self to work.

**The team you'll be part of**

Strategy and Technology lays the path for Nokia’s future technology innovation and identifies the most promising areas for Nokia to create new value. We set the company’s strategy and technology vision, offer an unparalleled research foundation for innovation, and provide critical support infrastructure for Nokia.

**What you will learn and contribute to**

This role will provide specialized expertise to identify major technology disruptions and market shifts in datacenter networks and develop a technology vision and initial business case for Nokia to address the disruptions and enter new markets or product areas. Understand market network environment and challenges. Match market vision and customer business challenges with Nokia technologies and influence Nokia product roadmaps to align with market and customer needs. Provide technology trends, insights and related value argumentation to support product teams and sales activities in the market. Engage with senior customer stakeholders and effectively communicate complex technical topics. Understand entire Nokia portfolio, driving competitive roadmap and portfolio development including E2E solutions based on market requirements.

Are you passionate about solving problems?

As part of our team, you will:

- Identifies and develops technical strategies to create business opportunities to expand Nokia’s datacenter solutions.
- Identify and explore options for Nokia to expand its datacenter switching opportunities in both Webscale and Enterprise.
- Develops business cases to drive the investment required to implement or acquire new products and technologies.
- Work closely with product teams to align roadmaps with market requirements.
- Identify potentially disruptive technologies and ensure product teams are aware of the potential impact and plan accordingly to exploit or mitigate the disruption.
- Understand and articulate new technologies, solutions, and architectures including identification of market leaders.

**Your skills and experience**

You have:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, telecommunications, business or a related field is required
- Minimum of 15 years’ experience in a technical product or business development role with deep experience working with or in product teams and RBCs
- Deep and broad knowledge of IP routing and/or data center switching would be an asset
- Proven technical success in leading or influencing new products that were impactful and grew market share
- Verifiable track record engaging customers at a senior level
- Capability of managing complex issues and motivating and leading diverse global virtual teams
- Ability to transfer knowledge across all segments
- Analytical thinking and the ability to understand the business impact of emerging technologies
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

**Key Interfaces**
- You will interface with business leaders, product management teams, RBCs, customer facing teams, CTO organizations, technical customers, and potential partners or suppliers.
- Competence Requirements
- Strong Business Acumen
- Driving Performance
- Industry Insight
- Driving Strategy
- Driving Change
- Leading Others

**BG/Services Specific Competences**
- Deep technical knowledge of data center and IP products.
- You will be able to create sustainable relationships with customers, leaders, channel partners and decision makers
- You will have well developed communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with engineers or Executive level leaders.
- Lead and motivate others

**Leadership Requirements**
- Commit to and actively support all shared decisions and ways of working
- Optimize to what is best for Nokia over own unit or personal benefit
- Collaborate purposefully across Nokia to find solutions and drive continuous improvement and support others to be successful
- Communicate with transparency to build trust and enable two-way dialogue with your organization and stakeholders
- Empower decision making as close as possible to where the work is performed and hold all levels accountable for their business outcomes
- Build and be part of teams that thrive on learning, feedback, curiosity and constant capability development
- Create an environment of psychological safety that encourages positive challenge, responsible risk taking and constructive discussi

**What we offer**

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working sc