Associate Product Specialist

Panasonic • Newark, NJ

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Every moment of every day, people all over the world turn to Panasonic to make their lives simpler, more enjoyable, more productive and more secure. Since our founding almost a century ago, we’ve been committed to improving peoples’ lives and making the world a better place–one customer, one business, one innovative leap at a time. Come join our journey!

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Advanced MS office skills, Excel and PowerPoint are required
• Receptiveness to feedback and a desire to improve, learn and grow
• Ability to improve / eliminate manual processes
• Strong analytical ability & detail oriented
• Excellent Multi-tasking and time management skills
• Ability to work outside of regularly scheduled work hours as needed
• Problem solver – identify areas of improvement
• Agility - ability to move quickly and easily in response to change or challenge
• Attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Communication within all different departments in organization and Japan business units as necessary
• Ability to travel up to 10% (may include overnight)
• All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

• 0-2 years of experience in consumer electronics industry preferred
• Experience in product management, sales and marketing team preferred

Responsibilities

• Assist updating promotional roadmap
• Follow guidelines to update promotion cost simulation
• Review weekly POS performance and report findings of exception vs forecast
• Coordinate updating necessary basic product set up information – coordination with Japan Business Unit (BU)
• Track competitive product launch and campaign to report findings to PM
• Maintain the product specification and product transition chart, including model details, timing, and status
• Demonstrate knowledge of technical product details
• Ability to demonstrate product functions and features
• Assist collaboration with sales team closely to understand the sales forecast and accounts situation and support
• Analyze latest POS trend vs sales forecast
• Assist preparing power point presentation to be reported in monthly meeting
• Access to POS data system to generate weekly report
• Run data analysis and generate monthly report with key findings
• Update weekly competitive market report
• Update weekly report for promotion history in the market
• Publish Circana market reports to track category and subcategory market size, market share, pricing trends, and competitive performance
• Work with PM to submit RFA (Request for Approval), and follow through
• Document RFAs and track vs budget to ensure completion and in compliance
• Create Purchase Requisitions and process Purchase Orders associated with approved RFAs; coordinate with the appropriate teams to help ensure timely payment
• Order and track sample for responsible category
• Work with PM and marketing team to identify support requirements and execute as each event requires different levels of involvement
• Work with PM to support preparing for the meeting with presentation data

Benefits

• Offering medical, dental, vision, prescription plans, plus Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
• Life, accident, critical illness, disability, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company matching contributions and immediate vesting.
• Vacation, holidays, personal days, sick leave, volunteer, and parental & caregiver leave.
• Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses after six months of service.
• Lifestyle Spending Account, EAP, virtual health management, chronic condition, neurodiversity, tobacco cessation, substance abuse support, and life stage and fertility resources.
• High5 employee recognition and awards platform, quarterly and annual employee recognition
• Opportunity for an annual performance-based bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level