Product Manager -Apple

Stryker Corporation; Riyadh; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

A leading supply chain solutions provider in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Product Manager with 8-10 years of experience. The role involves driving sales, managing vendor relationships, overseeing inventory, and ensuring compliance. A graduate degree and MBA are essential, with experience in the Africa market preferred.

Qualifications

• 8 - 10 years of work experience.
• 8+ years of functional experience.
• Exposure to Africa Market is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage vendor relationships and negotiation.
• Drive sales with the sales team.
• Oversee inventory management.
• Maintain appropriate product mix for demand.
• Engage regularly with customers for market insights.
• Identify and onboard new vendors.
• Ensure compliance with vendor requirements.
• Handle escalations or business issues.

Skills

Customer Centricity

Analytic thinking

Interpersonal Skills

Decision Making

Financial acumen

Planning Skills

Business Acumen

Negotiation Skills

Accountability

Education

Graduate, MBA

Job description

Company Description

Redington Middle East and Africa provides end-to-end supply chain solutions for all categories of Information Technology products (PCs, PC building blocks, networking, software and enterprise solution products) and Consumer and Lifestyle products (Telecom, Digital Lifestyle products, Entertainment products and Digital Printing Machines) to over 100 international brands and relationship with major brands has been maintained for years. Redington Gulf (a subsidiary of Redington India) is amongst the leading supply chain solution providers in Middle East, Africa, Turkey (via Arena Bilgisayar) and CIS region for leading manufacturers of Information Technology, Telecom and Lifestyle products.

Job Description

Job Purpose: Develop and implement different strategies to ensure the stabilization of the product. Execute aggressive plans by working closely in association with sales to market the new products. Identify the potential customers and vendors and try to build strong relationship with vendors and partners.

Responsibilities

• Vendor Relationship Management: maintaining Coordinal relationship with the vendor, ensuring that the vendor objectives and strategies are planned, being a source of Business Intelligence to the vendor, negotiating a win-win deal with the vendor, formulating, and implementing returns process such that partners and company\'s interest is safeguarded.
• Driving Sales: Partnering with the sales team and supporting them get deals on certain products for specific customers, getting competitive rates while ensuring that the margins are maintained. Being updated about the competition and strategizing to get a bigger market share.
• Inventory management: Inventory and sell out planning, ensuring that the stocks are available for sales team, holding optimum inventory without blocking huge cash flow, making decisions and moving the slow-moving inventory at right time
• Maintaining a right product mix to balance margins and demand.
• Customer Relationship management: Meeting customers on regular basis to understand the market trends, supporting the key accounts in events, sell out strategies
• Business Development: identifying, engaging and onboarding prospective vendors/product lines, getting into new markets with existing vendors, understanding the market trends and staying abreast with the technologies/ product lines
• Compliance: Ensuring that we stay compliant to statutory/ vendor requirements
• Managing Escalations or Business Issues

Qualifications

Work Experience: 8 - 10 Years

Functional Experience: 8+ Years

Educational Requirement: Graduate, MBA

Geography exposure: Africa Market

Brands: Eaton, Mercury & APC

Additional Information

Competencies:

• Customer Centricity - 2 for Asst. Product Manager, 3 for Product Manager & Product Sales Manager
• Analytic thinking - 2 for Asst. Product Manager, 3 for Product Manager & Product Sales Manager
• Interpersonal Skills - 2 for Product Manager & Product Sales Manager
• Decision Making - 2 for Asst. Product Manager, 3 for Product Manager & Product Sales Manager
• Financial acumen - 3
• Planning Skills - 2 for Asst. Product Manager, 3 for Product Manager & Product Sales Manager
• Business Acumen - 3
• Negotiation Skills - 3
• Accountability - 2 for Asst. Product Manager, 3 for Product Manager & Product Sales Manager