Product Manager, S & M, PC-MPPS

Your role

As the Factory Product Manager, your mission is to improve collaboration between Product Company Liuzhou and our regional sales organizations by managing product development in alignment with global strategy, while also providing product training and business support for your assigned product portfolio.

As a member of the Divisional Marketing team, you will play an important role in Multibrand business development together with the sales organizations and product companies.

Role: main tasks and responsibilities

The main areas of responsibility for this position are:

• Take the leading role as representative of marketing in the New Product Development process from master specification to series production.  This means that you actively participate in the PTM's, PCM's and PQM’s.
• Support the customer centers with training to improve product and application knowledge.
• Set-up promotional activities in line with the overall communication plan.
• Give active support to the daily business operations in our Customer Centers.
• Support the BDMs, sales people and regional marketing managers in their sales activities on commercial matters (correct product selection, request for Information, Quotations (RFI/RFQ), pricing and SPAs) to increase their productivity and their confidence to sell more.  Assure that they have a focus on application solutions.
• Support the visitors coming from our Customer Centers and distributors.
• Provide the required information regarding the forecast for the unit sales.
• Represent Marketing in the Product Company’s local management team.
• Ensure a customer-driven focus in the TCMs and other product care related meetings and topics.
• Set up and provide information for the product information and configuration systems (CPQ, CCP, PIM) for all models from the factory.

• Provide Marketing support for the local GEMS implementation, including managing the product pricing process for locally produced items.

In this role you will report to the General Manager of Liuzhou Tech Machinery PC.

To succeed, you will need

Experience and skills

• More than 3 years of experience in sales/marketing/engineering B2B, industrial- or construction equipment
• Technical knowledge of portable air compressors, tools and applications would be an advantage
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and in cross-functional teams
• Project management experience is a plus
• Proficient in MS Office 365

Education

• Engineering or marketing background
• Good knowledge of English (oral and written) and presentation skills. Ability to communicate in other languages is a plus.

Personality

• Hands-on attitude. Able to build relationships and networks with people inside and outside the organization
• Able to work independently and take responsibility
• Ambition to grow within the Atlas Copco Group by being involved in global responsibilities and projects

Work ethics requirements

• You are an Innovator, striving to create better solutions and ways, to challenge the status quo
• You value high standards, always finding better ways and not compromising on quality
• You are customer-focused, and you embrace entrepreneurial thinking on all the way from identifying the customer needs to bringing the added value
• You are resilient & agile, and you find opportunities in an ever-changing environment
• You are open-minded & collaborative to accept new ideas, can learn from mistakes, willing to work in team
• You are result-oriented, with “can do” attitude ready to go beyond the job description scope to find the best solution
• You are passionate for making a better world, a true believer with full alignment on personal values 

In return, we offer

• We offer you a highly challenging opportunity in a global context with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, in a diverse, open and innovative team within Portable Air Division.

  As global market leader in the compressor industry operating in more than 90 countries, we offer the opportunity of working in an international environment where learning is encouraged and enabled. Our teams are multicultural, open, and collaborative. We’re eager to see you grow and develop your competences. We set the bar high and aim to be competitive towards ourselves and collaborative towards our stakeholders. We’ll help you to reach your goals, as we’re eager to give you true responsibility to find a better way of doing things. 

Job location

This role requires you to work on site at Liuzhou Tech Machinery PC – Liuzhou, Guangxi, China.

And Travelling (worldwide) required.

Contact information

Recruiting Manager: Ling Chen
Recruiter: Liz Gan, Liz.gan@liutech.com.cn