For our Client we are looking for:
Global Category Manager, Floor Care Corded Products (vacuum cleaners)
western Europe
Responsibilities:
- Support Category Director in defining Category Strategy
- Implement the strategic plan for relevant category
- Development and maintenance of relevant product generation plan
- Range owner (including specifications and start/stop dates)
- Holistic make vs. buy assessment
- Product Line representative in Product Development Projects
- Planning and Implementation of launches according to plan
- Tracking and assuring Business performance according to budget and identify course corrections if needed (with Regional PLs)
- Support Category Director in identify business opportunity together with regions
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years of solid experience in product marketing or commercial areas (with product knowledge/ product management) or product development (ideally in more than one function)
- Good business sense and financial understanding
- Customer focus, Commercial & growth drive
- Very good project management skills, able to plan and prioritize
- Team player, able to influence and work in a matrix organization
- Good communicator, builds networks and can leverage resources from different areas to work together towards overall objectives
- Culturally aware and experience in remote teams
- Cross functional collaboration
- Strong, analytical skills with ability to see the big picture