Product Specialist

Product Specialist

Wilo North America is looking for top-level talent that can step into the role of Product Specialist. This role is designed for an emerging talent that is ready to work cross-functionally between engineering, sales, marketing, purchasing, and operations.

The ideal candidate will possess natural leadership skills, a keen intellect, and a history of driving results. Understanding pumps and a manufacturing environment is a plus. A key success factor is the ability to be an effective team player in a dynamic, fast paced, global work environment.

Major Responsibilities:

• Work with Wilo SE Globally Germany, France, China, Mexico, India, Middle East & Africa.
• Define Growth strategy
• Define future roadmap
• Be able to identify what sales thinks they will need before they need it
• Responsible for driving product development process/projects within market segment
• Build up expertise within market segment
• Improve product margins working with sales, operations, and supply
• Systematically analyze a market and be able to identify new applications or products.
• Drive product growth meetings.
• Drive product rationalization.

General Duties Include:

• Coordinate with sales, engineering, customer service, technical support, manufacturing, shipping, accounting, legal, and purchasing any new products and changes to existing products to assure timely delivery and target profitability.
• Incorporate sales forecast, market penetration, budget estimates, strategy, advertising, research and promotional efforts required to meet current and projected market objectives and profits.
• Work with operations and purchasing to ensure needed product supply based on demand projections. Specify changes in product demand so production and inventory levels can be adjusted accordingly.
• Develop a personal expertise on products and channels including a complete intelligence file on competitors' products, pricing, market share, performance claims, field activity, customer service channels of market distribution and end-user preferences. Become familiar with product materials, manufacturing, packaging, and promotions.
• Implement product life-cycle activities
• 15% - 30% Travel

Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Ability to communicate with people from wide variety of backgrounds and personalities and bring them together to work toward common goal.
• Experience in marketing and managing products in the Commercial, Industrial, Municipal, Fire and / or Specialty Markets

The company is an equal opportunity employer, drug-free workplace, and complies with ADA regulations as applicable.