Product Manager, Associate

Sunrise Medical (US) LLC•Mount Juliet, TN

23h•Onsite

About The Position

Assists Product Managers and/or Sr. Product Managers with marketing and business plans for the product segment. Provides support for optimization and operational responsibilities of the existing product line and supports implementation of new products into the market.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Engineering, Marketing, Communications or Business.
Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.
Able to make presentations in a professional manner.
Flexible and able to travel frequently.
Must be team player and potential leader with strong interpersonal skills.
Diagnostic Information Gathering – Identifying the information needed to clarify a situation, seeking that information from appropriate sources, and using skillful questioning to draw out the information.
Initiative – Identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked to or required by the situation.
Technical Expertise – Depth of knowledge and skill in a technical area.
Thoroughness – Ensuring that one’s own and other’s work and information are complete and accurate; careful preparation for meetings and presentations; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled.
Interpersonal Awareness – Noticing, interpreting, and anticipating others’ concerns and feelings, and communicating this awareness empathetically to others.
Fostering Teamwork – As a team member, the ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team; as a team leader, interest, skill, and success in getting groups to learn to work together cooperatively.
Building Collaborative Relationships – Developing and maintaining partnerships with others.
Customer Orientation – Demonstrated concern for satisfying one’s external and/or internal customers.

Nice To Haves

2 plus years selling or technical background.

Responsibilities

Assists in writing strategic product plans with strategic marketing objectives and strategies, including long term profitability, volumes (top-line growth) and new product and acquisition proposals.
Supports Product Managers with responsibilities such as market analysis, product specification, product and price positioning, business case approval including the long-range volume, revenue and margin projections.
Assists in the life cycle management of products in portfolio as per strategic plan objectives and strategies and therefore guardian of product line proliferation.
Leading/Supporting the VOC (Voice of the Customer) process.
Product champions and experts for key identified product groups.
Product management has to sign off as Core member of product project team.
Responsible for managing and working with other support teams (Purchasing, Engineering, etc.) on value improvement initiatives within the product segment.
Support process of spare parts documentation, owner’s manuals, and order forms; support product related market research activities within the markets.
Support the product training process.
Other duties as assigned.