Regional Product Manager

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Product line management - profitably grow market share, develop and execute the regional business plan and portfolio strategy, identify and drive actions to achieve financial targets, and support new product development activity.
- Regional product line reporting - provide analysis and insight to the management team on the status of the product line(s), including funnel health, win/loss analysis, areas of growth, risk to plan achievement, changes in market dynamics, etc.
- Competitor and market assessment - Capture, analyze and present competitor and market data (trends, pricing, segment, news, implications to regional value maps); provide recommendations and action plan for competitive responses
- Strategic and product planning - Support the development of the annual strategic plan, identifying new growth opportunities and driving growth for targeted segments using data collected through VOC collection and financial, market, and pricing analysis.
- New Product Development - represent region in global processes, e.g., P2P (Problem to Process) - market/opportunity sizing/customer needs and priorities and Launch Excellence; provide New Product Development screen input to include volumes, lifetime revenue/margin, local price points, and market size
- Product positioning and expertise - support local sales and commercial teams on product training, value prop., competitive positioning, etc. to gain share.
- Pricing and margin - Drive local pricing, product mix, and margin efforts to achieve annual targets
- Forecasting/planning - Provide visibility to the manufacturing/ops teams of expected product sales trend changes, new product launches and discontinuations, large deals, etc. to allow us to adjust inventory levels to support the business
- Commercialization - Lead new product launches and drive revenue achievement for the region, manage product lifecycle and execute End of Life (EOL) programs
- 50% of the time is expected to be dedicated in customer discussions, supporting the sales team and GM, throughout Latin America
- Lead PSP (Problem Solving Process), VOC (Voice of Customer) and VOS (Voice of Sales) in product line responsibility
- Monthly review with GMs to define and align priorities needed to reach Plan (Sales volume and Margin)
- Direct interaction with Head Quarter to address gaps, back orders and special needs
- Participate in Global and HQ meetings to develop and influence new products and solutions to address the LA market needs.
- Education - Required: bachelor’s degree in a Technical field with Marketing. MBA preferred.
- Work Experience - A minimum of 5 years product management experience in Latin America (or similar customer facing roles with technical product), preferably with experience promoting industrial products in a B2B environment combined with the experience of working in consulting companies.
- Special Skills -Strong marketing, financial and analytical capability; high level of computer literacy with proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Solid understanding coding industry is a plus.
- Language: English (spoken and written); Spanish (spoken)
- Travel Required - 30-40% of the time

**Key Competencies**:

- Strong business acumen of business levers (customer focus, value proposition, product positioning, lead / demand generation, price and margin, product mix, channel, etc.) and ability to use them to drive the business
- Use of continuous improvement tools to drive growth for the portfolio
- Ability to influence indirect teams in order to build a product champion network and to drive cross functional teams toward a common goal through consensus
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize deliverables
- Understanding of the packaging industry and market dynamics to translate product features and benefits into targeted value propositions to win more deals
- Strong communication skills to be able to drive the local view into global strategy, provide effective training, and articulate customer pain points across all levels of the organization

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