Position Overview
- The Product Manager's key responsibilities include ensuring a competitive and profitable product and solution portfolio for TOMRA’s sales and service organizations throughout the complete product lifecycle, as well as initiating relevant changes to the portfolio, constantly optimizing TOMRA’s overall competitiveness and commercial success.
- Acting as a hub and catalyst between the technology environment and TOMRA’s sales and service organizations, deposit organizations and new market initiatives, Product Management is the natural contact point for new product developments, be involved and tracking the product changes.
- The Product Manager is expected to provide leadership and manage communication with the markets, customers, internal and external stakeholders.
Main Responsibilities
- Be the product visionary for your product portfolio, leading the direction for your products and solutions with energy and momentum.
- Ensuring product strategy and roadmap for your portfolio is relevant and up to date.
- Initiate new product development and product phase-out when needed.
- Responsible for successful launches and introductions of products to existing and new markets.
- Monitor relevant competitor products and substitutes and take actions to ensure the product portfolio is competitive.
- Screen and analyse relevant markets, customers and competitors, ensuring necessary commercial and sales support to maximize and optimize value creation and profitability.
- Conduct commercial product and sales training and initiate development of new sales tools/materials as needed.
- Contribute to tender processes and business case calculations for sales and service.
- Set transfer price, recommended sales price and/or licence price for own product portfolio.
- Monitor and follow-up of Life Cycle Cost and Life Cycle Value for own product or product portfolio.
- Monitor and follow-up sales, competitiveness, and profitability of own products across markets.
- Look for new business opportunities for TOMRA with a basis in your portfolio and communicate opportunities to relevant stakeholders.
- Be prepared to take on the Market Coordinator role, being the main point of contact/PdM customer facing front towards assigned Business Areas / Business Units.
Main Requirements
- B.Sc. or M.Sc., preferably within business-related or technical subjects.
- Business orientation with a commercial and analytical mindset.
- A few years of experience in similar roles, acting as the link between technology and market.
- Result orientated, daring to take ownership that lead to action.
- Ability to influence, motivate, persuade and inspire others is critical.
- Excellent storyteller with good communication skills.
- International experience and additional language skills is a plus.
- Language skills: Fluent oral, reading and written in Chinese & English.
- Willing and able to travel, both domestic and international.
- Analytical, structured, positive, fast learner, self-driven and a good team player.