Req ID 77711 | Istanbul, Türkiye, ZF Services Türk San. ve Tic. A.Ş.
Job Description
About the Team:
We are expanding our Corporate Strategy team across Istanbul and looking for a Global Category Management Specialist to join us in Istanbul with Division Aftermarket.
What you can look forward to as Global Category Management Specialist:
- Monitor & pursue strategic initiatives with internal and external stakeholders in order to safeguard future revenue streams / support incremental growth.
- Validation of market potential parameters (e.g. PPM, replacement rates, market shares, etc.) as a base for strategic planning.
- Create Business Cases and Business Concept Studies through volume simulations & follow-up analysis in conjunction with market potentials.
- Support the “go to market strategy” through IAM Service & Workshop concepts, Channel Shift IAM (e.g. market analysis, stakeholder assessment, fit-/gap analysis), including monitoring of implementation & execution of relevant activities.
- Interface to X-functions (e.g. Market intelligence, PM Diagnostics, Portfolio Strategy) in order to evaluate business opportunities.
- Coordinate global operational topics such as product presentations, product specifications, global p/n pricing conflicts, organizing global structure reporting, and meetings.
- Initiate Bleeder/ Life Cycle Management (make and buy according to product strategy).
- Interrogate cross-divisional competitiveness support (COGS productivity).
- Safeguard implementation of global strategies together with stakeholder groups to deliver commercial success of respective product line and achieve sales, margin & profitability performance targets. Fulfillment of project targets and customer requirements.
- Work closely with Product Management to enable global NPIs via ideation processes.
- Follow up & implement improvement potentials identified by Global analyst (measure planning).
Your profile as Global Category Management Specialist:
- Min. 5 years of experience in International Sales/ Business Development/ Consultancy / Research and Development context.
- Good understanding of respective product portfolio.
- Ability to go deep with engineering when required.
- Very good analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
- Entrepreneurial personality with creative unconventional thinking skills.
- Strong global networking skills with the ability to build trust relations with internal and external stakeholders.
- Project management expertise.
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Business Sciences, Industrial Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or similar.
Why you should choose ZF:
An employment contract in a stable, global company.
Hybrid system work (depends on the position).
Private health insurance and employee package.
Good working atmosphere; working in an international team, interesting projects, and tasks.
ERP: The position is part of the ZF Global Employee Referral Program.
Be part of our ZF team as Global Category Management Specialist (PC Vibration Damping) and apply now!