Product Manager jobs in South Africa

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Supermicro is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

Supermicro is seeking a (Sr) SolutionProduct Manager who can help sales to grow business in different vertical market in EMEA, set up eco-system with different suppliers, grow company business with different sales team together, and directly engage with customers and provide solutions to end-users. As a (Sr) Solution Product Manager, you will use strong technical and communication skills towards product definition strategy for Supermicro's core product family including research into vertical-based customer solutions and creation of aggressive go-to market plan.

Includes the following essential duties and responsibilities (other duties may also be assigned):

• Analyze market and business trends, develop tactics and programs to grow market share through strategically positioned Supermicro’s solution to maximize competitiveness.
• Identify, prioritize and address requirement of enterprise customers for existing and emerging use case with evolving deployment considerations.
• TTM for new product training for customers. Work closely with customers to define and refine the specifications of the products and solution, work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure the solution meet the expectation from customer.
• Lead research and analysis of technology, customers, and competitors trends to feedback to engineers to develop platform portfolio strategy.
• Develop superior customer service relationships with prospects and work with sales teams to close deals.
• Develop Eco-system with team and setup/maintain vendor supplier relationship to develop business.

• Bachelor in EE/CS , with equivalent experiences.
• 8-10+ years of product management/promotion ability and the skills to influence customer.
• Proven ability to develop business and engage customers directly.
• Solution knowledge on Data analytics, SDS, HPC, AI, HCI, SAP, Network etc.
• In-depth knowledge in server/storage/datacenter products with strong business acumen to penetrate and develop new business opportunities in EU.
• Superb communication and interpersonal skills, must be able to collaborate, influence and develop complex relationship with both internal teams and external clients.
• Ability to be self-motivated towards the achievement and measurement of established goals
• Serve as the technical advisor to provide market and technology trends.

Please submit your CV and cover letter in English.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

• Able to sit for long periods of time.

• Able to input data into a computer and work with a computer screen for long periods of time.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job:

• Primarily works indoors in an office setting with controlled climate conditions

• May be susceptible to outdoor weather conditions (i.e., cold, heat, rain, and/or wind)

Supermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.