Assistant Product Manager

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With a rich history spanning over six decades and a global presence of more than 100 subsidiaries, we operate on a truly global scale. Since our establishment in 1958, our dedication to enhancing lives worldwide through innovative products has remained unwavering. Our business domains include Home Appliance & Air Solution, Home Entertainment, Vehicle Components Solutions, and Business Solutions.
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The Opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our ID Product Management Team as an Assistant Product Manager. Our Information Display Product Management Team is responsible for the sales and distribution of Information Display products into the UK market.

As an Assistant Product Manager you will be tasked to understand and forecast on future business budget needs, analyse findings by conducting cost & benefit analyses, create suggestions & check the reasonability of payment, and communicate with the marketing team, including checking budget of marketing support. You will be responsible for managing sales programmes, which includes organizing promotion details, monthly sales programmes report, and monitoring budget balance and current sales programme activities. Any other ad-hoc duties or responsibilities as requested by the line manager.

Your Role & Responsibilities

Sales Programme / Marketing Activities Funding Monitoring

- Share the product and market information with PM team, Sales team and other internal stakeholders, and provide UK business update to HQ
- Understand and forecast on future business budget needs
- Analyse findings by conducting cost & benefit analyses
- Create recommendations based on sound assessment of opportunities and risks and communicate them to management and stakeholders
- Check the reasonability of payment (evidence, agreement, stock date, sales out data, price, etc.)
- Regularly communicate with marketing team and check budget of marketing support
- Display allowance, A&P, rebate, SOA, price protection claim
- HQ strategic fund management
- Other Sales & Marketing activities support

ID Solutions’ Sales Programme Management System (SPMS) Request:

- Management of ID Solutions’ Sales Programmes in SPMS
- Organise the promotion detail and period management
- Generate the monthly sales programmes report
- Organise the sales promotion monthly calendar
- Monitor the balance and current sales programme activity
- Support sales coordination to update old and new programmes

Regular Activities:

- Daily: SPMS management (include charge back in sales and market activities), monitoring of daily sales progress
- Weekly: sales programme updated report, monitor & report weekly delivery plan
- Monthly: sales deduction report, charge back report, promotion calendar, month-end closing (issues related to P&L)
- Quarterly: marketing expense report, actual activities report
- Yearly: year report for sales programme, MKT activities, individual report etc.

Skills, Education & Experience

- Advanced in Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of databases and queries
- Due to daily communication with HQ, the candidate would have to be fluent in verbal and written communication in English and Korean. This will include translating business information from HQ in English in order to share with the internal Sales & Marketing team
- Pro-active and confident liaising with both colleagues internally and external stakeholders
- Energetic self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision
- Highly focused and capable of sustaining a fast pace in a dynamic environment
- Good judgement, able to make practical and realistic decisions within scope of responsibility
- Proven commercial acumen and ability to achieve commercial objectives

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.