Product Line Specialist - Esslingen, Deutschland - Altra Industrial Motion Corp.

Lena Wagner

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Beschreibung

Summary


The Specialist will play a key role in providing commercial support to the Product Line Manager including implementing pricing strategies, developing pricing and margin targets on non-standard product requests, and developing collateral and tools to equip the sales organization and channel partners.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Growth:


  • Partner with sellers to identify, pursue, negotiate, win, and sustain attractive business
  • Coordinate and project manage customer opportunities and growth initiatives across the organization

Margin Expansion:


  • Prepare cost estimates and price recommendations to ensure attainment of revenue and margin targets
  • Update data, systems, and processes to ensure accurate and timely pricing
  • Work with Engineering, Manufacturing and suppliers as needed to support product cost reductions and supply chain initiatives

Collateral, External Communication, and Promotions

  • Provide content to Marketing Communications in support of external product promotion programs, creative campaigns, and online product information
  • Educate, train, and inspire sellers and distributors to effectively value sell our products and grow our market share

Market Research & Strategy Development

  • Collect Voice of Customer (VOC) and market trend feedback continuously
  • Collect and prepare competitive product feature comparison spreadsheets, pricing analyses
  • Support Product Manager in the development and execution of strategic initiatives

Representative Decisions

  • Price setting for customer opportunities
  • Selling strategy and resource allocation for customer opportunities
  • Training and promotional content and implementation plans
  • Website and webtool flow and functionality

Expected Outcomes

  • Organic growth to targets, outpacing market growth to deliver share gain
  • New business wins from the sales funnel
  • Continuous delivery of margin expansion
  • Ontime completion of tollgate projects and marketing communications activities
  • High level of technical competence across the selling organization
  • High engagement and trust from sales, channel, and customers

Job Requirements:

Critical Competencies
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Analytical Thinking - identifies patterns across data or situations that are not obviously related
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Communication - listens to others and creates clarity through verbal and written communications
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Customer Focus - clearly articulates customer needs to drive customer satisfaction; provides excellent service to internal and external customers
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Organizational Effectiveness - effectively navigates organizational structures and drives momentum to achieve desired outcomes
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Prioritization - organizes and addresses tasks in order of importance
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Problem Solving - methodically defines, investigates, and executes effective solutions
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Relationship Management - builds sincere and mutually beneficial bonds with people


Education and Experience Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, or related technical field
  • 2 years relevant experience
  • Ability to navigate between internal departments to build relationships, enable information flow, and customer wins
  • Aptitude to develop technical expertise for our products
  • Experience working in manufacturing
  • Comfortable working in crossfunctional, commercial, and multicultural teams
  • Knowledge of basic financial fundamentals (price, cost elements, margin, etc...)
  • Ability to sell to both internal and external customers
  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 33% domestically and occasional international trips

Physical Demand and Work Environment

Physical Demands - while performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and sit.


Work Environment - The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

Must be willing to travel by all forms of transportation. Position requires 33% travel

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Job Snapshot:


Employee Type:
Full-Time


Location:
Großraum Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg (Onsite)


Job Type:
Marketing


Experience:
Not Specified


Date Posted: 05/20/2023

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