Product Manager

Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE) helps businesses of all sizes across Europe meet today's materials handling challenges with a full range of Toyota counterbalanced forklift trucks, warehouse equipment, and services and added value solutions, including service contracts, short term rental, used trucks and the Toyota I_Site Fleet Management Solution. Active in more than 30 countries across Europe and with headquarters in Sweden, TMHE has a European Office outside Brussels and factories in Ancenis (France), Bologna (Italy) and Mjölby (Sweden). With about 11 500 employees, along with a network of independent distributors and dealers, TMHE is the European regional organisation of Toyota Material Handling Group (TMHG), which is part of Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) - the global leader in materials handling equipment.

Product Management as a department is responsible for monitoring the market landscape and understanding customer needs, translating these into product requirements aimed to support our share and profit targets in the short and mid-term perspective.

Product Management is also responsible for developing a prioritized product plan and bringing this to the Management Team and related departments for decision and for execution. Product Management is responsible for bringing these products to the market together with other functions within the company and managing the process for an effective product introduction.

Product Management manages the activities of supporting the network to ensure we maximize the sales and share opportunities from our products, including developing effective sales support tools, recommending activities with local product managers/sales management and/or centrally to stimulate sales and share.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Reporting to the Product Group Manager, as Product Manager you will be a key player within the Product Management team. You will be involved in leading and developing:

* Effective measures to improve our market share on the short and mid-term.
* Product Planning of new products.
* Execution of new product developments with related departments.
* Product introduction process for new product and new feature introductions.
* Delivery of effective product training explaining the advantages of our offer to the markets/sales.
* Clear communication and product support to the network.

YOUR PROFILE
You are structured in how you organize your work and you are able to multitask in a number of projects/tasks at given moments. You are able to work with, analyze and process data to form opinion and suggest interpretation.

You are a clear communicator and you are able to work in, as well as lead, cross functional groups. Ideally you have either a commercial background with technical affinity, or technical background with commercial insight. Knowledge of internal material handling is useful.

You are open to international business travel (mainly within Europe). You speak and write English fluently and it is useful if you have knowledge of any additional language.

LOCATION

The position is based in Mjölby, Sweden.

OUR OFFER

We offer a dynamic and challenging multicultural work environment in which competence and quality always will play an important role. The role will give you the opportunity to enhance personal growth and it will give you a real opportunity to invest in your future through on the job development and training.

YOUR APPLICATION

If you are interested in this career opportunity, please send your Curriculum Vitae and application letter in English no later than March 26th 2021. We will evaluate applications continuously so please send your application as soon as possible.

For more information on the job, please contact:
Andreas Lindsjö, TMHE Product Management Group Manager - Warehouse Walkies Trucks: andreas.lindsjo@toyota-industries.eu