Product Manager Construction Equipment Machinery Management Sales South Africa

Reference Number: 14MR

Job Description:

Our client a leading construction equipment manufacturer is currently looking for a Product Manager. The ideal candidate will possess detailed understanding of operational administrative and system processes in the warehouse as well as well experience in managing a team.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate abilities in identifying and analyzing the technical advantages/competitive advantages of LiuGong products through the comparative study of sites and competitors’ products and activities.
• Develop compelling sale speech videos presentation and pictures and produce TCO data based on the technical advantage/competitive advantages of LiuGong products.
• Develop and propose products development and improvement plans through the comparative study on sites and competitors’ products and follow up with headquarter about strategies.
• Demonstrate abilities in crafting and developing compelling sale speeches and tools including creating customer success stories developing sale pitches and standard terminology in product introduction speech.
• Provide and propose integrated product solutions to key industrial customers through comprehensive studying and understanding of their working conditions.
• Fill in the technical parameters of bidding data.
• Drive the product and businessplanning processes for crossfunctional teams.
• Analyse customer needs current market trends and potential partnerships from an ROI and buildvs.buy perspective.
• Assess current competitor offerings and seek opportunities for differentiation.
• Analyse product requirements and develop appropriate programs to ensure they’re met.
• Develop implement and maintain production timelines across multiple departments.
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate gotomarket plan.
• Drive the execution of all processes in the product lifecycle including product and market research competitor analysis planning positioning requirements and roadmap development and product launch.
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototyping and final development by engineering teams.
• Create product strategy documents that describe business cases highlevel use cases technical requirements revenue and ROI.
• Analyse market data to develop sales strategies and define product objectives for effective marketing communications.
• Collaborate closely with engineering production marketing and sales teams in the development QA and release of products and balance resources to ensure success for the entire organization.

Requirements:

• Strong experience in a dynamic product management role.
• Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle.
• High effectiveness in managing crossfunctional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Business study/ product design or engineering.
• 510 years of working experience in heavy equipment (Wheel Loaders Excavator Roller Grader Bulldozer and etc.)
• Exceptional writing and editing skills combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills.
• Strategic mindset with excellent analytical and conceptual skills.
• Ability to maintain business relationship with a high degree of integrity and trust.

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