Associate Product Manager

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

RESPONSIBILITIES/EXPECTATIONS:

- 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 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 Solutions market, competition and offering. Ensure availability to our sales team of the best information and support them to sell company's 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.

SKILLS:

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

Specific Knowledge/Skills:
- Must understand the target markets and customers and have the ability to translate market/customer requirements into product features.
- Ability to discern between real product/market needs and specific customer needs.
- Ability to continually manage the program queue, establish and modify priorities and define new products/new Embedded software releases to achieve overall business objectives.
- Manage product enhancements and costs throughout the life of the product.
- 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.
- Strong presentation skills, as well as, excellent written and verbal communication skills.