LOCAL CATEGORY MANAGER FOR COOLING

at  BSH Home Appliances Group

YOUR PROFILE

• At least 5 years of experience in equivalent positions. Either in our Home Appliances industry or in a similar industry.
• University degree required, ideally in areas such as marketing, business administration or engineering.
• Fluent in English.
• Good analytical skills and strategy thinking.
• Experience leading people (as a manager or as a team coordinator), and experience leading and addressing sales teams and customers.
• With the push and drive to get the strategy executed and to bring along all key stakeholders.
• We are looking for a candidate with the right skills and motivation to drive a multimillion business from the first day. As a person you are willing to take risks and experiment with new ways of doing things and you also welcome changes. You are capable of taking decisions under stressful conditions and tough deadlines. We need someone with the We also need you to be capable of speaking in public and of giving product trainings. Finally it is important that you are an analytical person that is comfortable in digging into data and statistics to find concrete actionable angles.

IDEAL STARTING DATE: AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THIS IS A PERMANENT POSITION.

CURIOUS? For more information or if you have any questions about the position, please feel free to contact Santiago.Ananos@BSHG.COM Selection and interviews will be on-going, and we are looking forward to receiving your application as soon as possible.

YOUR TASKS

The Local Category Manager (LCM) for Cooling is in charge of the Colling product category within Major Domestic Appliances in Nordics. In short, you are the middle person between the Nordic Sales Organization, our BSH Factories and headquarters and the Nordic Market needs. Your main tasks are building up a product strategy, pricing, channel management, competitors’ analysis, training with the goal of increasing market share while improving profitability. Also you will closely worth with the Cooling team in the Headquarters ensuring its strategy is executed in the Nordics, and to participate in new BSH Global projects that are developed today and will come in the next years. Very importantly also, you’ll have in your team a Product Manager assign to Cooling who will support you on the tasks at hand. You’ll be the coordinator of this Product Manager.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Representing the Nordic market in the Headquarter decisions regarding Cooling.
• Being the eyes and the ears of the Nordic market when it comes to Cooling.
• Building up a product & price strategy and setting the BSH Nordic assortment for Siemens, Bosch and Neff brands
• Setting product pricing
• Channel management
• Competitors’ analysis and benchmarking
• Product trainings
• Conduct product presentation for both Sales and Customers
• Not least, to coordinate the job of the Product Manager assigned to your category.