Product Manager IEMEA Automotive Aftermarket

Job Description

▪ Executes product strategies including value-selling based on customer needs and consistent with BA and segment strategies
▪ Identifies and analyzes specific market environments and trends to support and drive business strategies
▪ Defines market entry strategies and drives sourcing decisions (Make or Buy, footprint development)     
▪ Provide strategic direction in alignment with segments and central functions based on BA strategy
▪ Support selected BA strategic projects as defined by Sector and BA Management (i.e, Business Field Portfolio Analysis, …)
▪ Support regional & global alignment

▪ Responsible for selected product portfolios on BA level, leading all necessary activities to meet BA targets with your assigned PDM team
▪ Manage systematic product portfolio and lifecycle aspects (product identification, launch, profitability guardiancy, phase out, setting of strategic price points, create product training materials)
▪ Driving product development/Technology and operations to implement the product portfolio and roadmap in the most successful and profitable way
▪ Identify and develop current and future value-selling opportunities
▪ Gather and share market intelligence
▪ Management of Product Master Data for product information management (PIM), product hierarchy and input for marketing activities 
▪ Consolidates product requirements (incl. quality) based on input from segment or other sources.

▪ Interfaces with sales/application engineering, R&D, purchasing and operations for development of new products and optimization of existing product lines in accordance with customer and market needs
▪ Create business cases for strategic decision-making (e.g. new business opportunities, phase out)
▪ Support product portfolio topics and BA growth fields, strategy, business models, white spots, foster standardization
▪ Shared responsible for product portfolio transformation including execution

▪ Support BA and Group Sector projects and process activities
▪ Leading selected projects and project teams to achieve successful completion of the project objectives in terms of timing, scope, financial and quality requirements

Qualifications

▪ Bachelor or Masters degree in Engineering, Economics or similar field

▪ 3+ years professional experience in a B2B environment in at least one of the following functional areas: Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Product Development/Application Engineering or Project Management prefered in Automotive Aftermarket indusry

▪ Experienced in automotive products
▪ Proven classic and agile project management and project leadership experience
▪ Proven ability to successfully work in highly diverse global teams

▪ Excellent multicultural communication and networking skills
▪ Language skills: highly proficient user of English language (written & spoken)
▪ Flexibility and willingness for domestic and international business travels

Additional Information

What we offer:

The 13-th salary – Paid once a year, in December;
Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;
Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;
Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;
Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you’ll receive them at the office;
Sports benefits- It’s important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;
Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens, etc;
System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that gives you the opportunity to come up with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (this is established by the CIM team according to your improvement idea);
Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;
Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;
Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a case by-case basis);
Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and. We reward employees who reach 15 and 20 years within the company with another day of vacation, reaching a maximum of 29 days.
Professional development - Many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;
Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, or what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and a variety of languages are spoken in our company.

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