Assistant Product Manager

LG Electronics, Inc.; Weybridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

LG Electronics, Inc. in the United Kingdom is seeking an Assistant Product Manager for the Information Display portfolio. You will forecast budgets, analyze cost/benefit, and coordinate with marketing to manage promotions and SPMS programmes.

You will support sales and marketing activities and liaise with HQ. The role requires advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, database knowledge, and fluency in English and Korean.

Qualifications

• Advanced in Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of databases and queries.
• Fluent in English and Korean (verbal and written).
• Pro-active and confident liaising with colleagues and external stakeholders.
• Energetic self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to achieve objectives.

Responsibilities

• Share product and market information with PM and Sales teams and update HQ.
• Understand and forecast future budget needs.
• Analyze findings by conducting cost and benefit analyses.
• Create recommendations and communicate them to management.
• Check reasonability of payments and monitor marketing budget.
• Organize promotion details, monthly reports, and oversee SPMS programmes.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Databases

Bilingual EN/KR

Tools

SPMS

Job description

Step into the innovative world of LG Electronics. As a global leader in technology, LG Electronics is dedicated to creating innovative solutions for a better life. Our brand promise, 'Life's Good', embodies our commitment to ensuring a happier, better life for all.
With a rich history spanning over six decades and a global presence of more than 100 subsidiaries, we operate on a truly global scale. Since our establishment in 1958, our dedication to enhancing lives worldwide through innovative products has remained unwavering. Our business domains include Home Appliance & Air Solution, Home Entertainment, Vehicle Components Solutions, and Business Solutions.
Our management philosophy, ""Jeong-do Management,"" embodies our commitment to high ethical standards and transparent operations. Grounded in the principles of 'Customer-Value Creation' and 'People-Oriented Management', these values shape our corporate culture, fostering creativity, diversity, and integrity. At LG, we believe in the power of collective wisdom, fostering a collaborative work environment.
Join us and become a part of a company that is not just about creating solutions for a better life, because at LG, Life's Good.

The Opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our ID Product Management Team as an Assistant Product Manager. Our Information Display Product Management Team is responsible for the sales and distribution of Information Display products into the UK market.

As an Assistant Product Manager you will be tasked to understand and forecast on future business budget needs, analyse findings by conducting cost & benefit analyses, create suggestions & check the reasonability of payment, and communicate with the marketing team, including checking budget of marketing support. You will be responsible for managing sales programmes, which includes organizing promotion details, monthly sales programmes report, and monitoring budget balance and current sales programme activities. Any other ad-hoc duties or responsibilities as requested by the line manager.

Your Role & Responsibilities

• Share the product and market information with PM team, Sales team and other internal stakeholders, and provide UK business update to HQ
• Understand and forecast on future business budget needs
• Analyse findings by conducting cost & benefit analyses
• Create recommendations based on sound assessment of opportunities and risks and communicate them to management and stakeholders
• Check the reasonability of payment (evidence, agreement, stock date, sales out data, price, etc.)
• Regularly communicate with marketing team and check budget of marketing support
• HQ strategic fund management
• Other Sales & Marketing activities support
• Management of ID Solutions’ Sales Programmes in SPMS
• Organise the promotion detail and period management
• Generate the monthly sales programmes report
• Organise the sales promotion monthly calendar
• Monitor the balance and current sales programme activity
• Support sales coordination to update old and new programmes

Regular Activities:

• Daily: SPMS management (include charge back in sales and market activities), monitoring of daily sales progress
• Weekly: sales programme updated report, monitor & report weekly delivery plan
• Monthly: sales deduction report, charge back report, promotion calendar, month-end closing (issues related to P&L)
• Quarterly: marketing expense report, actual activities report
• Yearly: year report for sales programme, MKT activities, individual report etc.

Skills, Education & Experience

• Advanced in Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of databases and queries
• Due to daily communication with HQ, the candidate would have to be fluent in verbal and written communication in English and Korean. This will include translating business information from HQ in English in order to share with the internal Sales & Marketing team
• Pro-active and confident liaising with both colleagues internally and external stakeholders
• Energetic self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision
• Highly focused and capable of sustaining a fast pace in a dynamic environment
• Good judgement, able to make practical and realistic decisions within scope of responsibility
• Proven commercial acumen and ability to achieve commercial objectives

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.