Product Manager Washer

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Product management is an organizational function within Electrolux Laundry Systems dealing with the planning, forecasting and marketing of a product or products at all stages of the product lifecycle. The role consists of product development and product marketing, which are different (yet complementary) efforts, with the objective of maximizing sales revenues, market share and profit margins. The product anager is responsible for analyzing market conditions and defining features or functions of a product. The role of product management spans many activities from strategic to tactical and serves an inter-disciplinary role, bridging gaps within the company between teams of different expertise, most notably between engineering-oriented teams and commercially-oriented teams. For example, product managers translate business objectives set for a product by into engineering requirements. Conversely they work to explain the capabilities and limitations of the finished product back to Marketing and Sales.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Product management demands for:
?Strong customer-orientation and analytical skills to understand and anticipate the market trends and the threats posed by competition;
?Deep understanding of the Marketing process and strategic capabilities in defining and articulating a complete Business Plan;
?drive for results during the execution of the Business Plan;
?Will to integrate different functions and departments, such as R&D, Logistics, Production, Quality, Purchasing, Marketing, Sales and Service into a unique great team to gain the customer?s

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

The PM is responsible to develop and implement strategy for the assigned product category including:
- Product lifecycle management for the assigned product portfolio
- Market monitoring and research of new opportunities in terms of product offer and target Consumer/Market
- Pricing and positioning activities
- The analysis of the marketplace and benchmarking of competition;
- The development of the positioning strategy and articulation of the Product Business Plan;
- Monitoring of the Product Development process and management of the product lifecycle;
- Technical and Sales training and support
- All the activities of communication and training required for a product launch execution.

The job responsibility encompasses, from a product point of view, the whole Electrolux Laundry Systems product line of the Front Load Washers and all the sales operations in the world.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
- University degree in Business administration in the area marketing or engineering
- IT literate

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED
- A couple of years of experience from working with marketing and/or engineering/product development
- Available to travel
- Communicative
- Self-driven
- Positive outlook
- Good social skills
- Experience from or interest in working with different cultures
- Tolerant and reliable
- High level of integrity

REQUIRED LANGUAGES
- Fluent in Swedish
- Fluent in English

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Electrolux is a global leader in home appliances, based on deep consumer insight and developed in close collaboration with professional users. We offer thoughtfully desi