Product Manager

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Your Role:

You will manage commercially one of Sony’s key strategic product groups – maximising sales, profit, brand awareness and purchase consideration. As a Product Manager, you will build strong dealership relationships to maximize sales, profit, brand awareness and purchase consideration.

Guided by our Pan-European strategy, you’ll rigorously analyze your product categories to set annual budgets and forecasts. From there, you’ll be a motivating partner to the sales and brand activation teams tasked with implementing your plans, using your data-driven insights to adapt strategies for the local market.

Your responsibilities:

• Market analysis, GFK analysis, local feedback, to understand key drivers and growth factors (pricing, line-up, distribution channels)
• Prepare competition overviews & benchmarks
• Defining product range, price, distribution, promotion and communication strategies within their area of responsibility
• Define business strategy suggestions covering pricing, advertising & promotion, product-line up and market segments
• Ensuring the optimal availability of products, manage and monitor inventories
• Monitor progress against agreed budgets, targets and plans or revised estimates on a regular basis
• Communicate with sales organisation for product launch, promotional activity, pricing, distribution strategies.
• Close collaboration with various departments, including Sales, Controlling/Finance, Communication, Supply Chain
• Weekly review of net sales and profitability development and fast decision for necessary pricing actions
• Understand retail pricing structure to propose the best offers on promotional opportunities
• Develop comprehensive promotion to enhance the value of the product range
• Coordinate European promotions' implementation for Austria
• Support Sales in their promotion activities through physical support, presentation materials.
• Manage Product life cycle (Model launch QTY, EOL management, tactical pricing)
• Take timely and appropriate action in case of product rework/recall when happened for all models
• Set monthly & rolling Forecasts and input in SAP
• Manage monthly PSI in order to maintain quality inventory of products in coordination with planning department in Europe and Japan
• Consolidate sales forecasts and monitor allocation plan when necessary

Your Profile:

• Bachelor/Master degree in Business Administration, Economics or similar
• Product Marketing business experience; Commercially-minded, preferably with a sales background in a FMCG or Consumer Electronics environment
• Experience in sales forecasting and sales evaluation
• Ownership, Ambition, Adaptability, Creativity
• Open minded
• Team player
• Entrepreneurial approach to react to the rapid moving dynamics
• Relationship building & influencing skills
• Significant analytical abilities and experience with commercial reporting & analysis
• Knowledge of the consumer electronics industry; Competitors, Retailers and Consumers.
• IT knowledge of SAP, SAP BW, PC skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
• Excel expertise (incl. Pivot tables) combined with the ability to analyze and interpret data which lead to great business plans
• Fluent in written and spoken German and English is required
• Willingness to travel within Switzerland and Austria and internationally mainly to our European Sony Headquarter in South-West London

The position will be based in our Zurich office with regular travels to our Vienna office as required.

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Sounds interesting?

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