Associate Product Manager

Requisition title: Associate Product Manager
Job Function: Marketing

An ideal candidate would have these qualifications:
1)New college graduate
2)GPA 3.5
3)Bachelors in Marketing/Business or Engineering
4)A strong interest in Product Management as a career
5)This position is meant to be a stepping stone to a career in Product Management
6)Manager is looking for a person that is enthusiastic and willing to learn

Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering and/or Marketing from an accredited college or university, and/or experience in Product Management, Sales or Business development.

Scope of responsibilities/Expectations:
The Associate Product Manager will be mentored and co-lead with a Senior product manager to manage a segment of the product offering.

Portfolio Management
Define the relative positioning, strength and weakness of the current portfolio. Help the sales and outbound marketing team understand the value of the offering, and define plans to improve the success and the performance of the portfolio.
Will involve management of the SKU offering, introduction, or retraction of products based on their potential and performance.

Revenue and Margin Management
Track the revenue and margin trend of the portfolio. Reach the revenue objective per the plan defined in strategic planning the previous year.
Define for the next year the growth and margin objectives for the segment.

Product Line Experts
Develop the Peripherals team into being a reference for the market and competition. Ensure availability to our sales team of the best information and support them to sell the value at the best price. Ensure that the reference information is accurate, and available to sales and customers.
Application expertise: review and analysis of one application for the Enterprise products
Portfolio presentation to partners and major customers, with feedback on the strength of the offering.
Implement a habit of meeting some key partners on a regular basis.

Specific Knowledge/Skills:
Must understand the target markets and customers and have the ability to translate market/customer requirements into product features. 
Successful candidate must have the ability to discern between real product/market needs and specific customer needs. 
Successful candidate must have the ability to continually manage the program queue, establish and modify priorities and define new products/new Embedded software releases to achieve overall business objectives. 
Successful candidate will manage product enhancements and costs throughout the life of the product. 
Successful candidate must possess the knowledge of business fundamentals and cost accounting. 
This includes the ability to understand the impact of products on our customers' business and to articulate this impact by creating a business case with cost/benefit analysis. 
Finally, the successful candidate will have strong presentation skills, as well as, excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Synectics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.