Position Summary

Why join our team?

This is an opportunity to be part of an exciting business area within Samsung UK. Supporting the Mobile Enhancement Products (MEP) Category team, including Smartwatch, Audio and Accessories, to create, co-ordinate and deliver our targets in our direct and indirect channel partners.

Role and Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities

Deeply understand, interpret and champion Samsung MEP products, the market, its consumers, channels and competitors within Samsung UK & IE MX (Mobile Experience), Europe Office/Suwon & reflect within the plan.

Be a central point of contact across the categories for a holistic view and support on Product Set-ups for customers, annual Management Plan and monthly target setting, Kick Off, Customer NPI Meetings, & Delegation Preparation.

Assist the MEP PMs to actively track and report the status of the sell-out of the plan, identifying and analysing areas of below plan performance.  Go deep to understand what is behind the performance and make fast recommendations on how to correct or offset. Taking a lead on projects to support MX growth & development.

Support the sell-out (AP2) forecasting for MEP products at SKU level (customer, colour, memory variant).

Support the response to changes in the market and actual performance to update, evolve and implement new activities and actions to achieve SEUK MX KPIs and objectives within any given period.

Manage the product set-up process, both with Suwon and channels completing the required set-up forms and proof reading copy.

Understand and communicate USP and feature hierarchy to support Samsung Shop and our channel partners with product assets and digital page creation.

Ensure administrative tasks relating to SKU creation, .com, logistics and product specifications, product certificates are completed within channel deadlines.

Liaise with HQ with regards to various operational product requests and queries and look to drive efficiency of the information sharing process.

What we need for this role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:

Shown experience in the area of Product Management

Product Lifecycle management experience with technical proficiency

Educated to degree level or equivalent

Strong numeracy/commercial competence

Exceptional skills in Microsoft office packages especially excel

Strong verbal, written and presentation abilities

Experience handling P&L, delivering profitability with low margins

Essential soft skills:

Creative thinking

Self-motivator and self-starter

Excellent communications skills with the capability to present to key team members

Excellent attention to detail

Flexible & adaptable with capacity to work in cross functional teams

Ability to work at a fast pace, with accuracy in a changing environment

Tenacious, hardworking, creative & driven

Excellent teammate

Ability to make decisions with full awareness of impacts and wider business trade-offs

Desirable skills:

Strong organisational skills

Multitasking capability

Results focused

Ability to manage Key Relationships

Internal

UK Account teams, Technical Product Engineering, Marketing Execution, Brand, HQ teams, ETO/EHQ, Supply Chain and Marketing.

External

Research agencies

Business Partners

Promotional Agencies

What does success look like?

Demonstrate the priorities of the MEP category through daily activities and aligning the SEUK business behind the priorities needed to win in the UK market.

Measured by: Ability to manage Key Relationships

UK Account teams, Technical Product Engineering, Marketing Execution, Brand, HQ teams, ETO/EHQ, Supply Chain and Marketing.

Research Agencies/Business Partners /Promotional Agencies

The interview process

There will be two stages of interview (1. General Introduction, 2. Competency-based interview)

Interviewee’s will be Line Manager, another Team Head, and Head of Category Management Department.

Second interview will also require a presentation, on given subject.

Skills and Qualifications

Benefits of working at Samsung include

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week

Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance

Pension contribution

Three volunteering days each year

Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday

Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products

Access to a discount shopping portal

Partner Colleagues are not eligible for certain types of statutory leave such as Samsung Family Leave or Sick Leave policies but may be eligible for statutory payments via their agency

A note on equal opportunities

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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