Product Manager

JOB PURPOSE:

The Product Manager is responsible for sales and profit accountability for a class of products. They interact daily with suppliers including negotiating pricing, business reviews, promotion activity and continuous development building. The Product Manager handles elevations and significant business opportunities. They are responsible for training, motivating and managing a team of Marketers. They also oversee all quoting activities, analyze strategic quotes and perform statistical analysis of daily/monthly reports. The Product Manager also prepares and negotiates product purchases and costs to maximize the class revenue and margin and they play a key role in worldwide inventory management.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Drive sales and maximize margin through inventory management & quote strategies
2. Train, motivate and manage a team of Marketers
3. Develop employees through performance management
4. Problem solving / troubleshooting
5. Build and maintain supplier relations
6. Oversee all quoting activity

JOB CONTENT:

• Responsible for achieving sales targets and goals for a specific product group
• Responsible for a defined Product Marketing set of classes
• Management of Marketers
• Create, implement and monitor action plan for focus suppliers within the branches
• Maintain and improve key suppliers relationship
• Responsible for SLA on timely completion of quotes
• Responsible to make sure that Product Group develops proficiency in aggressively quoting to win key opportunities from Sales branches
• Maintain proper follow-up systems

RECOMMENDED CREDENTIALS:

QUALIFICATIONS

• A Bachelor's Degree qualification or equivalent in a relevant field of study.

EXPERIENCES

• 4 years of prior experience in product marketing at any of the Manufacturers or equivalent electronics industry experience within distribution, component manufacturers and/or EMS companies.
• Must be able to travel when required
• Knowledge and experience of Interconnect & Electromechanical Products is highly advantageous.
• Experience as a Product Manager or FAE or Business Development role is highly advantageous.