Manager, Product Management
Full Time
24 Oct 2023
About the job
Manager, Product Management
Position Summary
Key Objective:
To manage Product line, Product development, compliance with country regulations, perform marketing & promotion activities and analyze market data for Samsung’s Air conditioning in the MENA region.
Role and Responsibilities
Position Responsibilities:
- Monitoring the market and developing competitive analyses.
- Manage product compliance against current/upcoming country regulations for each country in the dedicated region.
- Working closely with AC SE team, AC sales team, MENA marketing and CS teams and aligning stakeholders around the vision for the product
- Collect data from Samsung systems (GSCM etc) and from subsidiaries to analyze and report.
- Define the product vision, strategy and roadmap with AC Head
- Highlight the product lineup gaps for each country and present encounter measurement to address factory for product development.
- Gather, manage and prioritize market/customer requirements.
- Deep understanding of competition in Markets. (Market Volume, M/S, price competition, Channel breakdown etc.)
- Supporting Subsidiaries for marketing strategy and creating a common marketing vision
- Deep understanding of P&L management and Supporting P&L Management of subsidiaries
- Demand planning follow-up, PSI tracking
- Management Presentation preparations
- Represent the AC team to cross-functional groups including Marketing
- Ensure the company is communicating the right messaging to attract prospective customers and retain existing ones
- Updating AC Head on the progress of marketing activities and reporting on the results of campaigns
- Managing and coordinating marketing and creative materials including localization of global marketing tools
- Lead market research efforts and surveys
- Collaborate with media organizations and advertising agencies in line with MENA Creative & Corp. Marketing Teams
- Brainstorm ideas for new campaigns together with subsidiaries
- Analyze data to evaluate the success of subsidiaries marketing efforts and come up with new ideas to improve brand marketing.
Skills and Qualifications
Essential skills and experience:
- Strong experience in Product management, marketing and supply chain management
- Excellent Presentation and training skills (PowerPoint is a must)
- Self-motivated, hard-working, team player and with strong analytical skills and business acumen.
- Able to foster relationships with Internal and regional stakeholders in order to be able to achieve goals.
Qualifications (Experience, Education, Licensure & language skills)
- 10 years of experience in product management and marketing
- Bachelor degree or post-graduate degree preferably in Mechanical Engineering/ Business administration / or any study related to the job requirements.
- Fluent in English, Arabic is a plus
Physical demands and work environment:
Physical demands: Travel is required across the MENA region
Work environment: Office environment
