Category Manager C&A (Air Care)

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For that, we employ great people from a wide variety of backgrounds – not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also because we believe that diverse perspectives make our business stronger and more innovative. If you share our values, come find your place in our global community. Meet us on @lifeatelectrolux and career.electroluxgroup.comto learn more.
You will be based in Stockholm in a modern office setting in our multinational and diverse HQ.
At Electrolux, going to work every day has an even greater purpose than putting the latest product or technology in the market. It’s about improving the everyday lives of millions. As a leader in sustainability and consumer insight driven innovation, we push the boundaries of cooking, cleaning, and wellbeing at home. To keep doing so, we need talented people who are passionate about innovation and help re-imagine what life at home can be.
We aim to show the way with a holistic and sustainable approach to Wellbeing. Creating solutions that together contribute to making it easy and pleasurable for our consumers to maintain a healthy home to thrive in, that is better for our consumers and our planet. We are on a consumer centric journey, where we need to ensure our consumers and their needs are in the heart of everything we do.
A key function in delivering these solutions is the Consumer Experience Organization (CXO). As one team we channel our creativity into storytelling, outstanding user experiences and a strong innovation roadmap for the future that is closely linked to our brand values.
We are now looking for a driven Experience Manager to join the CXO Stockholm based team who will lead our portfolio of air care consumable & accessories (C&A) products. The role will work with a global, multi-functional team drive the full product development process from concept innovation to consumer ready product solutions.
A typical day
A major part of this role is defining a compelling strategy for our C&A air care portfolio, which consists of consumables and accessories for air treatment solutions such as air purifiers, air conditioners and humidification products.
You will lead the innovation portfolio of C&A products to develop exciting ideas to enhance the capabilities of our appliances, define the product innovation roadmap, own product specifications, and work closely with suppliers, R&D, design, quality, marketing & consumer insights teams, adjacent product teams and business areas to ensure a holistic product offering.
This will involve leading C&A product projects and integrating yourself with adjacent finished goods project teams to ensure the C&A value propositions are closely linked to the finished goods value proposition.
Led by consumer insights you will work closely with the business areas to co-develop product value propositions and tangible product benefits for our consumers, working proactively to develop and fine tune supporting materials.
Your key responsibilities
· Execute the initiatives of the air care C&A strategy, engaging with cross functional areas, including consumer insights, sustainability, R&D and product sourcing to deliver on our brand and consumer experience goals.
· Translate in-depth market, consumer, professional and competitive analyses into winning concepts by defining a razor sharp, and winning experience value proposition for our product solutions.
· Integrate these new concepts into a strategic product innovation roadmap that uniquely addresses the needs of our market organizations globally.
· Lead C&A specific projects with a cross functional team to deliver product solutions to the business areas via the Approach to Innovation project process, ensuring product introduction on time, at the right quality and cost.
· Be the C&A lead in finished goods projects, ensuring project teams are fully brief on the C&A opportunity scope, and agreed C&A objected are met within the project teams.
· Interact with all associated disciplines, including R&D departments, internal and external design agencies, own manufacturing units and/or external suppliers, marketing teams and the commercial organizations of key target markets.
Who you are
A self-starter with a passion for products, solution orientated and with a hunger innovating new solutions.
· Results-driven curious, with high learning agility and strong will to also support those in your team to achieve their best
· Strong analytical skills with the ability to see the big picture
· Obsess over our consumers´ needs and experience, enjoy seeing the positive impact our work has on consumers
· Open, a good communicator with collaboration mind-set, who builds networks and can leverage resources from different areas to work together towards overall objectives
· A competent planner, able to anticipate milestones and plan workflows according.
· Team player, able to influence and work in a matrix organization
· International, demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment by having lived/worked in multiple countries
· Fluent in English
Experience
· Experience in product management and product development, with good understanding of FMCG and/or durables business.
· Experience in internal sales process of new products introduction to local sales team in a market
· Project leadership experience, preferably in an international environment.
· Basic engineering knowledge and ability to read drawings/3D sketches to communicate with R&D, industrial design and manufacturing units is a plus.
· 5 years of experience in product marketing and/or commercial areas (with product knowledge/ product management) and/or product development (ideally in more than one function), preferably within Consumer Goods area.
At Electrolux, we take responsibility for our development in a supportive environment where we embrace our differences and learn from each other.