Product Marketing Manager

Overview

About This Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and drive product strategy for the Edwards and Kidde Commercial UL range in EMEA region.
• Deliver product performance and business analysis to support the local business and global product teams.
• Conduct regular Voice of Sales and Voice of Customer survey to understand the Product Gaps and communicate findings to the global product team.
• Ensuring correct Pricing and Positioning of the products.
• Driving Product knowledge and competence to internal team and customers, by organizing regular product trainings on Fire, across branches through Technical Team and directly to partners.
• Competition and Market pricing Analysis.
• Managing the entire Product life cycle from Strategic Planning to Successful launch of new products to drive revenue, gross margin and market share.
• Product presentations to the Key End-Users/consultants in coordination with the Sales Team.
• Drives new product launches by working with the Marketing Communications team for creating awareness among customers and sales team.
• Supporting Product Roadshows.
• Literature Management.

Basic Qualifications

• University Degree (or equivalent).
• 5+ years of product management / product marketing experience in a B2B environment.
• Knowledge of Fire Alarm Industry (or similar).
• Multilingual with strong English skills; Arabic language is a must.

Preferred Qualifications

• Commercial Fire experience will be an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively and proactively communicate across different functional teams, customers and global internal stakeholders in a matrix environment
• Excellent teamwork skills, proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• The ability to influence and work collaboratively with sales and product management is of particular importance.
• True ownership mentality, effective organizational, problem solving, multi-tasking skills.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently to deliver business results.
• World Leaders in Fire and Life Safety
• Kidde Global Solutions is a world leader in fire & life safety solutions tailored for complex commercial facilities to homes.
• Through iconic, industry-defining brands including Kidde, Kidde Commercial, Edwards, GST, Badger, Gloria and Aritech, we provide residential and commercial customers with advanced solutions and services to protect people and property in a wide range of applications, all around the globe.