PRODUCT MANAGERS WANTED AT PZ CUSSONS

The Role: PRODUCT MANAGERS   The successful candidates will be required to:

- Take responsibility for the complete marketing mix of his/her product.
- Manage the process from consumer insight and understanding, through to product development, costing and pricing and commercial execution, including forecasting and stock management.
- Be a champion of his/her category and must be accountable for all elements of the product in its entirety.
- Deliver the Budget sales and profit targets.
- Make input into the long term strategy for the category.
- Conduct training to improve product knowledge.
- Tackle quality issues from product design through to after-sales service.


The Person: 
The right candidate must:

- Have a first degree in a technical related discipline.
- Have between three (3) to five (5) years working experience in the home appliances industry.
- Have marketing experience, ideally in related categories.
- Be a strong commercial thinker who has an eye for the market
- Be proficient with numbers.
- Possess efficient planning and execution skill as this is vital to the role.
- Be prepared to work in a high pressure environment.
- Be willing to travel extensively and engage with the market/sales teams.
- Posses a CAN DO attitude, exhibiting our core values – COURAGE, ACCOUNTABILITY, NETWORKING, DRIVE and ONENESS.

Please note that only short listed candidates would be contacted.    

Closing date: 30th June 2011