Product Manager

Product Manager

Location: Birmingham , West Midlands (County) Salary: 35000 - 45000 per annum Date posted: 19/06/2012 09:03 Job type:Permanent Company: Euro London Appointments - London Contact: Oliver Astington Ref: Totaljobs/WNOA/307902 Job ID: 53872435

Product Manager- join a truly International team!
Birmingham
35-45K plus excellent benefits package


Euro London Appointments is recruiting on behalf of our Client, an established, Internationally recognized telematics organisation, serving customers locally in over 100 countries. With an unrivalled global footprint, our Client is offering an opportunity to join their experienced team as a Product Manager. The environment is fast paced, and ever changing as the successful candidate will need to constantly enable my client's products to evolve to meet their customers needs. Your career will be developed in an international environment with regular liaison with global development teams and travel to client sites to review how the company's products can be adapted to meet their business requirements.

Responsibilities

The selected candidate will be responsible for:

*Managing specialist product sets through all stages of their lifecycle and will take full ownership for all my client's products and services
*Will be required to build strong relationships with colleagues in the development team based in South Africa
*Be the principle point of contact for all product release information
*Act as the prime contact person for product development requests to SA specifying the requirements and timelines for their development
*Planning of commercial announcements to dealers and clients
*Responsible for co-ordinating the UAT testing phase prior to product release
*Research and identifying new market opportunities for existing products
*The role is ideal for a candidate accustomed to working in collaboration with remote teams and initiating action across a global organisation. A high degree of co-operation and the ability to influence others is thus essential.
*Internal presentations of products, organisation of product workshops to keep internal departments appraised of development
*Integrating information with my client's CRM system
*Working in close co-operation with the marketing department and assisting in the development of marketing materials and product factsheets and information guides.

Key skills and attributes

*Strong negotiation and diplomacy skills
*A pro-active positive attitude with a supportive nature towards all colleagues
*The ability to deal with international stakeholders and colleagues with a high level of cultural awareness
*Self-motivated
*Substantial commercial understanding
*Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
*Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal
*Experienced in information gathering, planning and organisational skills
*Ability to handle conflict with tact and authority
*Desire to travel internationally, within Europe and worldwide.
*Holder of a full drivers licence
*Due to the international nature of the role a second European language , particularly French would be of advantage, but is not essential.