Key Activities / Responsibilities
- Identify market segments. Regularly conduct market research to determine the best opportunities for growth.
- Coordinate new product development activities with finance, marketing communications, sales, purchasing, manufacturing and service as required.
- Provide competitive analysis; feature benefit analysis, market and price positioning for new and existing products to company employees, dealers and customers.
- Author Strategic Plan and AOP sections relevant to their product area.
- Oversee development of marketing publications; product information, training packets, brochures, spec sheets, and new product launch packets.
- Develop pricing strategies with sales for whole goods and PPA with consideration of costs, competitive situation, and margins.
Regularly review prices based on field input and competitive information and adjust pricing as necessary.
- Provide content to Marcom for product training modules ESGU to support sales.
- Participate in regional and national conferences and trade fairs.
- Validate need for specials and or option requests from sales and customers and provide rationale and direction to engineering regarding development of these specials and or options.
- Meet regularly with engineering to ensure needed customer-driven product improvements are addressed in a timely fashion.
- Conduct VOC interviews with customers to feed New Product Pipeline.
- Organize and direct Innovation Sessions for respective products.
- Provide charter, product definition and marketing plan for growth initiatives.
- Aggressively drive sales growth via new products for both new and existing customers, via new markets for existing products, and development of new customer acquisition and customer retention programs.
- Evaluate adjacent products for opportunities to expand product lines and product offerings.
- Must be willing and able to travel 20-40%
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Administration or Engineering, required.
- 3 years experience in a Marketing role such as Product Manager; Market Manager; Marketing Manager, preferred
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), required.
- Strong computer skills (MS Office : Word, Excel & Outlook; JDE), required.
30+ days ago