Smartphone Product Manager

SAMSUNG; Ottershaw; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the United Kingdom is looking for a Product Manager to drive the product strategy for the A Series and Xcover products. You'll be responsible for implementation and execution of the business plan in collaboration with various teams, ensuring alignment and performance tracking. The ideal candidate has a background in product management, strong analytical skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Benefits include hybrid working, a bonus scheme, and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home

Bonus scheme linked to performance

Car allowance

Pension contribution

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience handling a P&L and delivering profitability with low margins.
• Proposition development and execution experience.
• Strong numeracy and commercial competence.

Responsibilities

• Own the product group to create and deliver targets through the product plan.
• Collaborate with teams to achieve critical metrics.
• Produce launch materials and support product launch.

Skills

Experience in product management

Strong numeracy/commercial competence

Exceptional Microsoft Office skills

Creative thinking

Strong verbal and written communication

Job description

Why join our team?

A great opportunity to join the Smartphone team. Through innovation and launching class-leading devices, combined with sharp commercials and channel execution, we are looking to accelerate sales and market share growth. The team is ambitious, energetic, commercially savvy and highly motivated, creating an exciting working environment.

Role and Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities

As ambassador for the A Series & Xcover product group, the product manager is the key driver within Samsung UK, with responsibility for the creation and implementation of the quarterly Product Strategy and Business Plan across UK and Ireland.

Deeply understand, interpret and champion Samsung Mobile products, the market, its consumers, channels and competitors within Samsung UK & IE MX (Mobile Experience), Europe Office / Suwon & reflect within the plan.

The PM is responsible for pricing, positioning and channel distribution through the life of the product from launch to EOL, monitoring both the market trends and internal forecasting.

The PM will have excellent communication skills balanced with a sound eye for business. Capable of creating outstanding business plans that clearly communicate the key message of the product group both internally and externally.

Key Tasks

• Own the Product group to create, co-ordinate and deliver our targets through the Product Plan into our direct and indirect channel partners
• Collaborate with the category team, wider Product Management team and the overall business to achieve key SEUK MX critical metrics of revenue, volume, share, profit and investment ratio targets.
• Produce launch materials and support product launch, ranging and sell through.
• Deeply understand, interpret and champion Samsung products, the market, its consumers, channels and competitors, and represent SEUK plans and performance to ETO & Suwon.
• Align, negotiate business opportunities, gain consensus and approval across the category head, Product heads, the SEUK Leadership Team and Business Strategy Directors on the components of the product plans
• Work with wider MX pier group (sales, marketing & retail) to ensure alignment, consensus of the plans with clear feedback loop and issue management. Working with peer groups to identify areas of improvement risks and solutions to ensure the plan is delivered.
• Actively track and report the status of the sell-out of the plan, identifying and analysing areas of performance below the plan. Go deep to understand what is behind the performance and make fast recommendations on how to correct or mitigate. Work with your peer group and key stakeholders including the Pricing team and the wider business, to rapidly raise areas of concern and build effective solutions to return the performance to plan.
• Own the sell-out (AP2) forecasting at SKU level (customer, colour, SKU variant) and align with demand planning & sales operations on the equivalent sell-in that this forecast generates, to ensure SEUK achieves its sell-in revenue target. Report on any changes on current performance, and the subsequent implications on key critical metrics.
• Understand segmentation and customer audiences to align the product strategy.
• Fundamental responsibility for the SEUK MX Smartphone (A Series / XCover) Product Plan, its implementation and success.

Skills and Qualifications

What we need for this role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes :

Essential hard skills

• Experience in the area of product management, preferably Smartphone / Consumer Electronics
• Experience handling a P&L and delivering profitability with low margins
• Proposition development & execution experience
• Product Lifecycle management experience with technical proficiency
• Strong numeracy / commercial competence
• Exceptional skills in Microsoft office packages, especially excel.
• Strong verbal, written and presentation abilities

Essential soft skills

• Creative thinking
• Self-motivator and self-starter

Resilience in a fast paced, ever-changing & dynamic culture

Excellent communications skills with the capability to present to key team members

Excellent attention to detail

Flexible & adaptable with capacity to work in cross functional teams

Ability to work at a fast pace, with accuracy in a changing environment

Tenacious, hardworking, creative & driven

Excellent teammate

Ability to make decisions with full awareness of impacts and wider business trade-offs

Strong organisational skills

Multitasking capability

Results focused

Ability to manage Key Relationships

Benefits of working at Samsung include

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week
• Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance
• Car allowance
• Pension contribution
• Three volunteering days each year
• Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday
• Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products
• Access to a discount shopping portal
• Partner Colleagues are not eligible for Samsung Enhanced Paid Sick Leave but may be eligible for statutory payments from their payroll agency
• Up to 20 (pro-rata) Partner Absence days per calendar year to be used in times of need

A note on equal opportunities

Weare an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion,colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disabilitystatus.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to requestaccommodation.