Assistant Product Manager

LG Electronics UK; Weybridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Assistant Product Manager in the ID Product Management Team. You'll analyze business needs, manage sales programs, and liaise with marketing. This role demands strong analytical skills and fluency in English and Korean.

Benefits

9% Employer Contribution into your Pension

25 Days’ Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays)

Private healthcare

Staff Discount

Subsidised Cafeteria

Qualifications

• Pro-active and confident liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
• Energetic self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Manage sales programmes and organize promotion details.
• Conduct cost & benefit analyses and communicate with marketing team.
• Monitor budget balance and sales programme activities.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Fluent English

Fluent Korean

Commercial Acumen

Job description

At LG, we deliver products and services that make lives better, easier and happier through increased functionality and fun. Put simply, we offer the latest innovations to make “Life Good” – from home appliances, consumer electronics and mobile communications to business innovations in digital signage, air conditioning, solar and LED lighting. As a global leader, we strive for greatness in product leadership, market leadership and people leadership to realize our growth strategies.

We strongly believe that our people’s competitive spirit, proactive leadership, and expertise helps drive the company forward. As such, LG is the right place for you if:

You are a smart cookie. You like to dig into the data and find creative solutions.

You are motivated and driven. You thrive on a challenge and want to be No. 1.

You are a people person. You like helping people out and you want to understand where they’re coming from.

You’re honest and you will speak up (politely, of course!), but you do it because you care and because it’s the right thing to do.

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

Sales Programme / Marketing Activities Funding Monitoring

• 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
• Display allowance, A&P, rebate, SOA, price protection claim
• HQ strategic fund management
• Other Sales & Marketing activities support

ID Solutions’ Sales Programme Management System (SPMS) Request:

• 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

Your Benefits

• 9% Employer Contribution into your Pension
• 25 Days’ Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays)
• Private healthcare
• Staff Discount
• Subsidised Cafeteria

Our Equal Opportunities Statement

LG Electronics U.K. Ltd is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitable persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Right to Work

Please note: To be considered for this role, applicants must already possess the right to work legally in the United Kingdom.