Jr Product Manager

Electrolux Professional Presents:
Jr Product Management
Ljungby, Sweden


Being part of the Electrolux Professional team means one day is never the same as the next. What drives us every day is our mission to make our customers’ work-life easier, more profitable – and truly sustainable. Becoming the OnE trusted partner, managing their complete operations. Understanding their daily journey – and making it a winning one - whether they run a hotel, restaurant, laundry or café.
Acting in a truly sustainable way means going beyond just products; connecting users with intelligence, humans with technology and innovative thinkers with relevant business models. And providing the most inclusive service offering with expertise, state-of-the-art interfaces and the best people network.


Together with you, we will grow and create sustainable experiences for people and the world around us, in food, beverage and laundry. Electrolux Professional – we are The OnE.


Job background:
Product management is an organizational function within Electrolux Professional dealing with the planning, forecasting and marketing of a product or products at all stages of the product lifecycle. The role consists of product development and product marketing, which are different (yet complementary) efforts, with the objective of maximizing sales revenues, market share and profit margins. The product manager is responsible for analyzing market conditions and defining features or functions of a product. The role of product management spans many activities from strategic to tactical and serves an inter-disciplinary role, bridging gaps within the company between teams of different expertise, most notably between engineering-oriented teams and commercially-oriented teams. For example, product managers translate business objectives set for a product by into engineering requirements. Conversely they work to explain the capabilities and limitations of the finished product back to Marketing and Sales.


Job purpose:
Product management demands for:
Strong customer-orientation and analytical skills to understand and anticipate the market trends and the threats posed by competition;
Deep understanding of the Marketing process and strategic capabilities in defining and articulating a complete Business Plan;
Drive for results during the execution of the Business Plan;
Will to integrate different functions and departments, such as R&D, Logistics, Production, Quality, Purchasing, Marketing, Sales and Service into a unique great team to gain the customer’s trust.



KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The PM is responsible to develop and implement strategy for the assigned product category, which including:
Product lifecycle management for the assigned product portfolio
Market monitoring and research of new opportunities in terms of product offer and target Consumer/Market
Pricing and positioning activities
The analysis of the marketplace and benchmarking of competition;
The development of the positioning strategy and articulation of the Product Business Plan;
Monitoring of the Product Development process and management of the product lifecycle;
Product sales training and support
All the activities of communication and training required for a product launch execution.


EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Masters or Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business management or similar education.
Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook, and a clear focus on Customer’ satisfaction.
Strong analytical skills and structured approach.
Ability to work in a multicultural team and being a team-player.
Business understanding and process knowledge.
Curious of learning and building a great Product knowledge, with focus on features-benefits-solutions selling.
Basic business finance knowledge: able to understand profit and loss calculations.
Excellent communication and presentation skills and ability in influencing;
Fluent English is mandatory and fluent Swedish an advantage.



The position requires intense interaction with several departments and functions, therefore some people-management skills, experience and natural ability will be useful.

Please apply by: 15.11.2021


About Electrolux Professional

Electrolux Professional has existed since March 23rd, 2020 when it was spun off from the Electrolux group an independent company listed at Nasdaq Stockholm. Electrolux Professional is a leading provider and trusted partner for unit and full solutions, with a comprehensive and integrated offering for food, beverage and laundry. Our innovative and efficient solutions help to make our customers’ work-life easier, more profitable - and truly sustainable every day. With 10,000 service technicians in over 140 countries, we offer our customers a worldwide service network. In 2018, Electrolux Professional had 3,000 employees and achieved global sales of SEK 9bn.
For more information, visit: www.electroluxprofessional.com