Description:
In this role you will be responsible for the following areas and tasks:
Product Management and support
- Manage the product portfolio through its Life Cycles to rationalize and optimize the portfolio
- Maintain the Global Product Overview and Technical Data Sheets, working closely with RA / QA / R&D
- Provide marketing input to new product developments
- Conduct competitive product assessments and develop new strategies to compete
- Ensure ongoing product range profitability, make recommendations for margin improvement
Relationships
- Establish and maintain close cooperation with a wide range of departments, including, Quality, Regulatory, R&D, Operations, Finance, Purchasing, Planning, Supply Chain and Sales.
Growing the Business
- Develop and conduct product training for internal and external personnel
- Define and drive short and mid-term product plans
- Provide input to assigned longer-term road-map projects
- Ensure that products under development meet market and company objectives
- Initiate and manage communication and promotion campaigns (product/segments literature, trade shows, brochures, internal/external newsletters, sales actions, etc...
- Support on NPI process, including gate reviews, pre-assessment calls and monthly R&D updates
Measurement and Analysis
- Monitor product profitability and take proactive actions
- Measure product complexity and product life cycle to guide corrective actions as appropriate
- Optimize processes wherever possible in order to perform tasks more efficiently
- Generate and maintain analysis of the market with a focus on market trends, market size, competitive solutions and positioning and market
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s / Master's Degree required (e.g. marketing, economics, business administration, etc.)
- +3 years of relevant experience required
- Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
- Strong teamwork and relationship-building skills
- Understanding of applicable computer systems
- Possesses leadership, mentoring, training, and project management experience and skills
- Strong ability to multi-task
- Effective negotiation skills
- Strong customer focus and orientation
- Fluent in English