Junior Product Manager

Your mission:

The Junior Product Manager role will focus on supporting the Product Managers within the assigned business area and undertake co-ordinating activities to optimise the future product planning within the CISMETA region.

What you will do:

• Support the product manager to propose future Volume/Revenue/Profit plans based on knowledge of market and group of products.
• Support key activities in the business planning cycle to ensure accurate sales revenue reporting and cyclical forecasting activities.
• Support product managers with ensuring all relevant systems and updated and maintained throughout the product lifecycle. (SAP, Internal CMS, PIM, Product Spec Datasheets etc).
• Improve and maintain market and price information to support the positioning of Epson products within the various sales regions.
• Provide updates on Competitor market share and Epson performance to local marketing teams based on information provided by Data Analyst.
• Using Key Point Intelligence and 3rd party systems track competitive environment across and make recommendations for Activities / Actions. Work with Marketing and Product teams to create new materials to support sales
• Co-ordinate with Japan corporate Head Office for the homologation requirements for key regions within the territory. Follow up with central and factory homologation teams to ensure compliance and guide product and sales managers to appropriate launch schedule. Support Fast track of homologation approval for key regions.
• Co-ordinate and control the end-to-end process of all sample and demo stock within the Business unit, including surveys with regions for new product sample requirements, managing requests, import approval and orders and delivery from Factories to warehouses with the support of the planning team.
• Own the SharePoint sites for relevant product areas. Follow up with Product managers to make sure content is published to relevant audience
• Work with PMs to create and maintain Sales focused presentations explaining the various value propositions of Epson products.
• Own the monthly product launch meetings between Business Unit and Sales regions. Managing attendees, content, agenda and all materials
• Support the product managers with requests and adHoc activities for Factory and International marketing team based in Japan.

What we ask for:

• Graduate or equivalent education in a technology or marketing field.
• Experience working in the CISMETA region, understanding the challenge of working with multiple different countries.
• Experience working in a product support or sales related role, with similar role requirements.
• Good communication skills and the ability to network.
• Numerate with attention to detail.
• Analytic and questioning manner with the ability to make sense of data.
• Good Excel knowledge and general IT knowledge (PC and Mobile OS’s, Network)
• Strong English language skills

What we offer:

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and a wide range of excellent benefits, including a working environment where quality, teamwork, and respect come first.

Our heritage

We aspire to be an indispensable company, trusted throughout the world for our commitment to openness, customer satisfaction and sustainability. We respect individuality while promoting teamwork, and we are committed to delivering unique value through innovative and creative solutions.

Our commitment to the environment

We all have a role to play in building a better future. For Epson, being a sustainable company means being mindful of every aspect of our organisation – from the smallest lightbulb to the largest factory. It fuels our innovation, drives our growth, motivates our workforce and, ultimately, to contribute to society.

Our people

We believe a healthy culture, strong values, teamwork and contribution from a diverse range of individuals will help us to strive for excellence.

Our brand

Ranked by Clarivate Analytics as a Top 100 Global Innovator brand for the last seven years running