Business Manager, Product Marketing

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

The Mac Business Management team for Worldwide Product Marketing is a high impact, analytical team supporting pivotal roadmap decisions. The Business Manager will work with highly confidential future roadmap information, collaborate cross-functionally across various groups, and have direct exposure to the highest levels of decision making at Apple. The lean structure on Business Management fosters high business ownership and offers a unique platform to influence strategic decisions at Apple from product concept to launch. We are looking to on-board a Mac Business Manager who will serve as an engaged business partner responsible for covering our flagship consumer laptops product line that millions of customers use every day.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience in a highly analytical role with frequent exposure to business case and scenario modeling
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Finance, or another quantitative field

Nice To Haves

• Deep passion for Apple’s products and mission
• Ability to work comfortably under ambiguity to deliver fully developed and well-reasoned analyses
• Strong and structured communicator
• Ownership mindset and high agency to take a proactive role in leading project work-streams from end-to-end
• Strong attention to detail and ability to 'see around corners’
• High proficiency in Excel modeling, with strong competency (or aptitude to learn) R, SQL, Tableau, and Python
• Adept at working cross-functionally and managing senior stakeholder relationships
• Comfort navigating product or engineering topics with keen interest to ramp on new and un-familiar technical content

Responsibilities

• Influence and drive business/ product decisions for the Mac product-line in cross-functional partnership with Product Marketing Managers, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Customer Analytics, Sales and Market Research
• Advise on product pricing, feature arbitration and line-up decisions with business analyses considering units, revenue and margin implications by integrating a multitude of varied data sources
• Own unit forecasts for new product introductions for Mac that are leveraged across Apple’s supply chain informing long-term purchase decisions for equipment, assembly lines and commodity procurement
• Absorb and dissect sales trends, customer activations trends, buyer surveys, external market research and technical performance benchmarks to inform product and business strategy for Mac product lines
• Formulate connected insights for executive leadership following new product introductions assessing product market fit; rigorously challenge customer demand signals based on a deep understanding of Mac customer psychology
• Partner closely with silicon engineering, platform architecture and operations teams to map the Apple silicon roadmap to Mac hardware product lines
• Provide Product Marketing leadership with visibility into state of the Mac business by preparing quarterly business reviews and monthly financial metrics (units, revenue, and gross-margin)
• Partner closely with Data Scientist to drive and inform ML models for demand forecasts
• Support stealth investigations, special projects and ad-hoc requests for senior Apple leadership

What This Job Offers

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