Product Specialist
Tata Technologies · Pune · onsite · Posted 44d ago
Undisclosed3–8 yrsfulltimeSourced from
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About this role
Responsibilities
- Understand Aftermarket business model and developments.
- Able to collect Market Intelligence from the market and customers to evaluate and report on market trends and align/update strategic product roadmap accordingly.
- Conduct market research and develop business cases for new product lines.
- Direct competitive benchmarking to ensure product competitiveness and produce detailed product requirements for the engineering team.
- Develop and maintain product strategy including short- & long-term planning and execution process.
- Develop a process & KPIs to evaluate strategy, execution and results.
- Develop product management tools, systems and processes to support product launch and development.
- Develop product marketing and sales tools to drive sales growth.
- Analyze market pricing and target cost to drive correct decisions and achieve targeted profitability.
- Responsible to manage Product Life Cycle and portfolio, drive continuous product improvements, product and market segmentation, support new and existing product forecasting.
- Report on new products revenue monthly.
- Liaise and collaborate with Engineering, Global Product Management, Purchasing, Operation/Planning, Sales, Marketing and other departments about new product development, product line coverage, establish respective product value proposition and provide direction for market and price positioning.
- Responsible for his/her product line price positioning and sustainable profitability.
- Develops, through coordination with the organization, profitable growth strategies for respective products.
- Identify and effectively communicate critical aspects of their products.
- Monitor quality of products and packaging (appearance, performance, attributes) and take corrective actions.
- Act as link between Quality Department and local Sales & Marketing teams.
- Regularly analyze risks and opportunities in order to support sales operations.
- Analyze competitive product offerings and customers request for tailor made products and provide response (incl. tenders, Private Label RFQs) in due time.
- Report regularly about product line profitability and projects status.
- Calculate coverage of responsible products vs competition.
- Prioritize and monitor development new SKUs.
- Contribute to development of regular catalogues (paper & electronic ones).
- Inform regularly relevant departments about new product introductions.
- Additional responsibilities: participate customer events, provide support for trade show exhibits, attend industry meetings and develop network.
- Recurrent travel by car and by air will be required.
- This job description is not an exhaustive list of all tasks, responsibilities and requirements. These may be amended, added, removed or changed according to the business needs.
- Education: Minimum/Essential: Bachelor Degree in Business, Management, Engineering.
- Respective product ranges knowledge and proven track record (at least 3 years) as a product planner, specialist within the Automotive Aftermarket
- Experience or aspiration to work in an international business environment
- Experience in developing a strategic planning process and its implementation.
- Possess an understanding of financial (profitability) reporting
- Fluent in English language is essential and at least one other main European language (FR, ES, IT, DE, PL, RU)
- Good computer skills. Highly proficient in MS Office tools: Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Knowledge of SAP is a plus
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Skills
Market IntelligenceMarket Researchgrowth strategiesProduct LaunchProduct Roadmapplannerproduct life cycleMarket TrendsInternational BusinessoperationsProduct ManagementmarketingForecastingProduct Marketing
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Tata Technologies
Engineering & Construction
10.4k+
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