Product Manager – Computing

at  Samsung Electronics

Position Summary
Why join our team?
Great opportunity to join the Computing team, sitting within the MX department! Computing is the main business growth area within Samsung. Samsung is continually innovating and launching laptops, and we will continue this cycle through 2024 and into the foreseeable future! The team is newly formed, ambitious, energetic and highly motivated, creating an exciting working environment
Role and Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities

• Category management for the New Computing portfolio ensuring meeting the Management plan and P&L. Setting objectives, goals, strategies & measures for the category. Responsibility for AP2, commercial management, proposition development, sell-in activity, ranging management, go-to-market launch readiness, commercial sales support and in-life/end-of-life product life cycle management. Make decisions that impact directly on business goals whilst utilising analysis and interpretation skills to drive commercial value from data.
• From launch, through optimisation by model and by account, on to end of life and transition to new models, your analysis and decisions will ultimately increase our market share. Achievements in the role, are recognised against clear Key Performance Indicators, and will be visible within Samsung at the highest levels, opening up opportunities to drive the business.

What we need for this role

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

• As ambassador for the New Computing product group, the product manager is the key driver within Samsung UK, with responsibility for the creation and implementation of the annual Product Strategy and Business Plan across UK and Ireland.
• The PM is responsible for pricing, positioning and channel distribution through the life of the product from launch to EOL monitoring both the market trends and internal forecasting.
• The PM will have excellent communication skills balanced with sound business acumen. Capable of creating outstanding business plans that clearly communicate the key message of the product group both internally and externally.
• Own the New Computing Product group to create, coordinate and deliver our targets through the SEUK IM New Computing Product Plan in our direct and indirect channel partners
• Collaborate with the New Computing Product Management Team, wider Product Management team and the overall business to achieve key SEUK MX critical metrics, revenue, volume, share, profit and investment ratio targets
• Produce launch materials and support product launch, ranging and sell through.
• Deeply understand, interpret and champion Samsung New Computing products, the market, its consumers, channels and competitors within SEUK MX, ETO & Suwon and reflect within the plan
• Align, negotiate business opportunities, gain consensus and approval with the Head of PM, SEUK Leadership Team and Business Strategy Directors on the components of the New Computing products plan
• Work with wider MX peer group (sales, marketing & retail) to ensure alignment, consensus of the plans with clear feedback loop and issue management. Working with pier groups to identify areas of improvement risks and solutions to ensure the plan is delivered
• Actively track and report the status of the sell-out of the plan, identifying and analysing areas of below plan performance. Go deep to understand what is behind the performance and make fast recommendations on how to correct or offset. Work with pier group, Head Tab & MEP PM, Head of Product Planning & Pricing and the wider business to rapidly raise areas of concern and build effective solutions to return the performance to the plan.
• Own the sell-out (AP2) forecasting for New Computing products at SKU level (customer, colour, memory variant) and align with demand planning & sales operations on the equivalent sell-in that this forecast generates to ensure SEUK MX achieves its sell-in revenue target. Report on any changes, and implications of current performance on key critical metrics
• Actively respond to changes in the market and actual performance to update, evolve and implement new activities and actions to achieve SEUK MX Key Performance Indicators and objectives within any given period
• Understanding of Samsung segmentation and customer audiences to align product strategy
• Fundamental responsibility for the SEUK MX New Computing Product Plan and its implementation.

What does success look like?

Essential hard skills:

• Shown experience in the area of product management
• Proposition development & execution experience
• Product Lifecycle management experience with technical competence
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Good skills in Microsoft office packages
• Strong verbal, written and presentation abilities
• Strong numeracy/commercial foresight
• Experience handling P&L, delivering profitability with low margins

Essential soft skills:

• Creative thinking
• Self-motivator and self-starter
• Excellent communications skills with the capability to present to key team members
• Excellent attention to detail
• Flexible & adaptable with capacity to work in cross functional teams
• Ability to work at a fast pace, with accuracy in a changing environment
• Tenacious, hardworking, creative & driven
• Excellent teammate
• Ability to make decisions with full awareness of impacts and wider business trade-offs

Desirable skills:

• Strong organisational skills
• Multitasking capability
• Results focused

Skills and Qualifications
Benefits of working at Samsung include

Partner Colleague

• 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
• 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

• Category management for the New Computing portfolio ensuring meeting the Management plan and P&L. Setting objectives, goals, strategies & measures for the category. Responsibility for AP2, commercial management, proposition development, sell-in activity, ranging management, go-to-market launch readiness, commercial sales support and in-life/end-of-life product life cycle management. Make decisions that impact directly on business goals whilst utilising analysis and interpretation skills to drive commercial value from data.
• From launch, through optimisation by model and by account, on to end of life and transition to new models, your analysis and decisions will ultimately increase our market share. Achievements in the role, are recognised against clear Key Performance Indicators, and will be visible within Samsung at the highest levels, opening up opportunities to drive the business