Position Summary

Why join our team?

A great opportunity to join the Tablet & Companion team. Tablet along with the categories making up our Ecosystem products (Tablet, Computing, Smartwatch, Audio, Memory and accessories) are the main drivers for business growth within Samsung. Through innovation and launching class-leading devices, combined with sharp commericals and channel execution, we are looking to accelerate sales and market share growth. The team is ambitious, energetic, commercially savvy and highly motivated, creating an exciting working environment.

Role and Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities

As ambassador for the Tablet product group, the product manager is the key driver within Samsung UK, with responsibility for the creation and implementation of the quartly Product Strategy and Business Plan across UK and Ireland.

The PM is responsible for pricing, positioning and channel distribution through the life of the product from launch to EOL, monitoring both the market trends and internal forecasting.

The PM will have excellent communication skills balanced with a sound eye for business. Capable of creating outstanding business plans that clearly communicate the key message of the product group both internally and externally.

Key Tasks:

Own the Tablet Product group to create, coordinate and deliver our targets through the Tablet Product Plan into our direct and indirect channel partners

Collaborate with the Tablet category team, wider Product Management team and the overall business to achieve key SEUK MX critical metrics of revenue, volume, share, profit and investment ratio targets.

Produce launch materials and support product launch, ranging and sell through.

Deeply understand, interpret and champion Samsung Tablet products, the market, its consumers, channels and competitors, and represent SEUK plans and performance to ETO & Suwon.

Align, negotiate business opportunities, gain consensus and approval across the category head, Product heads, the SEUK Leadership Team and Business Strategy Directors on the components of the Tablet product plans

Work with wider MX pier group (sales, marketing & retail) to ensure alignment, consensus of the plans with clear feedback loop and issue management. Working with peer groups to identify areas of improvement risks and solutions to ensure the plan is delivered.

Actively track and report the status of the sell-out of the plan, identifying and analysing areas of performance below the plan. Go deep to understand what is behind the performance and make fast recommendations on how to correct or mitigate. Work with your peer group and key stakeholders including the Pricing team and the wider business, to rapidly raise areas of concern and build effective solutions to return the performance to plan.

Own the sell-out (AP2) forecasting at SKU level (customer, colour, SKU variant) and align with demand planning & sales operations on the equivalent sell-in that this forecast generates, to ensure SEUK achieves its sell-in revenue target. Report on any changes on current performance, and the subsequent implications on key critical metrics.

Understand segmentation and customer audiences to align the product strategy.

Fundamental responsibility for the SEUK MX Tablet Product Plan, its implementation and succes.

What we need for this role

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

Essential hard skills:

•Proven experience in the area of product management, preferably Tablet

•Proposition development & execution experience

•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 a P&L and 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

Strong organisational skills

Multitasking capability

Results focused

Ability to manage Key Relationships:

Internal - UK Sales Account teams, Channel Marketing, Brand, HQ teams, ETO/EHQ, Supply Chain and the SEUK Leadership team.

External - Customer channel buyers, research agencies, business Partners, promotional Agencies and media.

What does success look like?

Priority Understanding:

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

Personal Development:

Take ownership of Personal Development Plan

Meet targets set for self as well as business set objectives.

Developing and delivering functional skills in the Product Management team

Develop and deliver system management skills within the team

Demonstrate ability to learn new skills both on the job and through organised mentoring sessions

Measured by:

Meeting objectives by quarter

Measuring and Communicating activity

Ensure that all activities are communicated both to key SUK stakeholders and Korean HQ as the need arises

The interview process

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

Interviewee’s will be Line Manager, Sales category head, and Head of Product Manager Dept.

2nd 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

Car allowance (delete if not appropriate)

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 Samsung Enhanced Paid Sick Leave but may be eligible for statutory payments from their payroll agency

Up to 20 (pro-rata) Partner Absence days per calendar year to be used in times of need

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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