Position Summary

Why join our team?

Reporting to the Senior PM, the Product Manager - Floorcare supports the increased focus within this area and is responsible for achieving the strong growth targets and commercial objectives for our Vacuum Cleaning category. In this role, you will take the responsibility for developing the strategy, plan and flawlessly implementing both in life products and new product introductions.

Role and Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities

Product Strategy

Develop and build the relevant Category strategy and product roadmaps

Ensure that monthly margin targets are met to deliver both local profit and global profit

Analyse Weekly sell-out figures to determine direction for the overall categories

Provide scenario planning that will guide decision making

Provide information to guide channelisation, product lifecycle management and investment decisions for relevant categories

Work closely with the Product Planner for all needed, relevant analysis and insights

Market Strategy

Work with commercial and marketing teams to ensure consumer targets and activity are aligned

Set the £RRP and invoice pricing for category products to ensure the product range is aimed for the target market

Set the direction for segmentation of relevant Category products in the UK

Ensure that monthly, quarterly and yearly targets for Volume, Revenue and Sell-out are met

Provide recommendations on a monthly promotional plan that will guide the commercial team’s priorities in terms of sell-in

Review and react to competitor strategy, communicating insights and actions to both UK and Korean HQ

Priority setting

Set the priorities for the product category ensuring that actions achieve the objectives whilst also being aligned to the overall vision of Samsung DA

P&L Accountability

Take full accountability for the relevant categories P&L, providing scenarios and communicating to Senior PM + Head of PM when needed

Management and ownership of budget and revenue targets for relevant categories

Handling and Measuring Work

With the support handle conflicting viewpoints and ensuring that the business can move forward in a handled and clear fashion

Find new and innovative solutions to deal with long-term challenges and short-term problems

Proposition

Work alongside wider PM team, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Marketing and Commercial teams to develop propositions

Forecasting

Contribute to the development of the quarterly and yearly Volume, Value and Margin plan

Work with demand planning teams to work with factory teams to set our demand forecast for supply.

Work with the commercial sales team to ensure that any variation to plans are managed and communicated

Launch

Own and contribute to the development of the launch plan for new products within relevant Category portfolio

Co-ordinate key partners with the launch to ensure overall delivery of the launch strategy.

Lead and handle the launch process for new products within the Emerging Category portfolio

What we need for this role
 

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

Previous Product Management experience, ideally within the small domestic appliance space

Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

Experience of handling large quantities of data to make complicated decisions

Creative thinking

Self-motivator and self-starter

Outstanding communications skills comfortable presenting at all levels

Excellent attention to detail

Ability to break complex problems down into simple, meaningful solutions

Flexible & adaptable with ability to work in cross functional teams

Work at a fast pace, with accuracy, in a changing environment across multiple projects

Make decisions with full understanding of impacts and wider business trade offs

Strong and flexible Interpersonal skills when interacting with colleagues of different nationalities and cultures

What does success look like?
 

To be successful in this role you ideally have:

A well rounded blend of:

High level commercial foresight

Advanced data-handling capability

Well-developed creative problem solving skills

The ability to deliver excellence in collaboration with others.

Ability to make this role your own with proactive leadership.

Tenacity and Resilience in a fast paced and demanding culture

Success in the first 3 months will look like:

Understanding of FloorCare Strategy & Build on plans to achieve targets

Full immersion in and understanding of key Samsung processes and systems

Strong relationships built within the product management team and wider DA community

Improved promotional and commercial simulation analysis and accuracy

Achieving efficiency of the product line – Volume / Value per SKU

Implementation and profitability of the promotional plan

Success will be measured by:

Meeting quarterly and yearly targets for Volume, Revenue, Profit, Net Dealer Price and Mix

Market share and ASP of categories provided by GFK

Accuracy and improvement of promotional simulations

Accuracy of commercial forecasts

Quality and reliability of reporting

Skills and Qualifications

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 (delete if not appropriate)

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 certain types of statutory leave such as Samsung Family Leave or Sick Leave policies but may be eligible for statutory payments via their agency

A note on equal opportunities
 

We are 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 disability status.

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 request accommodation.

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