Product Manager
- Location:
- Glasgow Area jobs
- Salary:
- Negotiable
- Company:
- 2m Careers
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 09/11/2009 09:12
- Job id:
- 45889839
- Contact:
- 2M Careers
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/PMCL-GLA
Our client is a leader in the power sector and they manufacture monitoring and protection devices used by electric utilities and OEM manufacturing companies to monitor substation and transformers. They are a global leader in sales and installations of transformer asset protection equipment, fault recorders, and fault locators.
They are looking to recruit a Product Manager for their Glasgow office on a permanent basis.
The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and managing the marketing activities (product definition, price strategy, and promotion) for assigned product areas on a global basis to achieve sales and profitability objectives.
Responsibilities include the overall planning of Partial Discharge for GIS and Rotating machine products, strategy, brand management, global price strategy, new products mapping, overall promotion and communication planning and provide field sales product support. Please note that this role entails significant overseas travel.
Duties
. Collect market intelligence and VOC, develop market segmentation, product functional specifications, product positions, and the associated business plans to support and justify development programs.
. Assure overall project conformance to schedule for new product development.
. Develop pricing strategy, product cost targets, and product cost reduction plans to achieve competitive positioning and profitability targets.
. Develop and implement product promotion programs, including such things as advertising, brochures, public relations, direct mail, within budget guidelines, and assistance at trade shows and exhibits.
. Maintain market information relative to technology, customers, competitors, and market size in unit and currency value and growth rates.
. Travel to support field sales efforts at customer locations, obtain market data to better perform the assigned position tasks, and assist in training field sales people.
. Support the customer service organization to ensure they can provide responses to customers relative to price quotations, delivery information, and technical assistance as required.
Skills and Experience
. Engineering or Business degree with MBA.
. Electric transmission/distribution industry knowledge.
. Electronic/Instrument product knowledge.
. 2 plus years in marketing, or as a combination with sales, in an engineered electro-mechanical products manufacturing environment.
. Experience in international sales & marketing.
. Established relationships with global customers.
. Electronic product sales & marketing experience.
. Strong budgeting and financial analysis skills.
. Multi lingual (desired).
. Excellent PC skills.
. Excellent verbal and written communication.
. Ability to manage several simultaneous projects through non-reports.
. Excellent project management and strategic planning skills.
. Strong action orientation.
. Analytic approach to problem solving.
Contact
Please contact Melanie on 0131 555 4001 or email your CV to info@2mcareers.com for more information.
All applications are treated in confidence, 2M Careers offers the services of an employment agency for permanent work.
This position may be just one of numerous opportunities we are handling that you could have an interest in pursuing. If you wish to see other vacancies that we are currently recruiting for then please take a look at our website at www.2mcareers.com
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Please only apply if you are eligible to work in the UK.
