Specialist - Product Manager

What awaits you in this role?

We are looking for a passionate Specialist - Product Manager who will join our team at Commercial Transformation & Alternative Channels Sales Directorate, in Arcelik Türkiye.

• Creates and implements product marketing plans for a MDA & Floor Care & Ironing categories to meet critical metrics
• Develops go-to-market strategies, , including product differentiation for channels, pricing, distribution, product mix, and promotional recommendations
• Lineup management – directly manage a specific product segment, including lineup optimization and initiatives targeted at driving operational efficiency or responding to market challenges
• Price administration – Supports, manages, or directs the management of pricing strategies by product and by segment and manages promotional roadmap for assigned products to drive sales, market share, and to ensure that market forecasts are achieved
• Sales and P&L Analysis – Analyzes sales forecasts and monitors sales and marketing investments as needed for maintaining accurate target plans and inventory balance and for achieving business P&L goals
• Forecasting and Inventory Monitoring and Optimization – Prepares and owns forecasts for assigned categories, collaborates with supply chain, sales, and customers to ensure appropriate inventory levels throughout the product lifecycle, and timely end-of-life (EOL) strategies
• Tracks weekly product sales data by account and by SKU to manage forecasts and resolve sales challenges (e.g., recommends pricing adjustments, suggests removal of product from floor, provides retailers with data-driven recommendations on which models to promote)
• Collaborates with sales teams and customers to understand customer retailer strategies and challenges, and in general to provide the marketing support needed for successful selling
• Conducts sales and supply chain meetings, develops weekly forecasts, and confirms the sales estimates essential for achieving supply chain efficiency and appropriate inventory levels
• Pitches product line-up features and strategy at key customer meetings and events
• Conducts competitive market analysis using various systems as well as online research

The position located in Kadıköy, İstanbul.

How we describe the perfect match?

• Bachelor's degree from related departments of reputable universities.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in product management in the MDA&SDA industry.
• Ability to establish business and cross-cultural relationships and to understand requests and manage multiple partners.
• Being able to create alternatives from a rational perspective; Giving the rules correctly and on time.
• Able to understand customer needs & desires. Improve customer satisfaction by operating resources and making decisions based on understanding the customer.
• Understanding the global business environment and being able to address conflicts and alignments between local and global strategies
• A great attitude, positive outlook, an ambition to succeed, be resilient and a huge desire to learn in order to make continuous improvement is equally key
• Able to generate creative perspectives and challenge ways of thinking by creating new, effective ways of working
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools,
• Strong communication and coordination skills,
• Analytical thinking skills, proficient in problem-solving, creative, result, and solution-oriented.