The Product Manager (PM) is the individual within AREVA T&D Automation Products organization responsible for the day-to-day management and welfare of a product or family of products at all stages of the product lifecycle from defining a product concept, to defining product requirements, to working across an organization to develop the product, through product launch and the ongoing management of the product post launch.

Main responsibilities are:

ü Product Marketing for the Product Line by:

§ Contributing to the definition of the annual R&D priorities,

§ Controlling and acknowledging the gate review progress according to the Offer Creation Process,

§ Challenging time to market for new products

ü Commercial Marketing by:

§ Monitoring and coordinating product launch with central function (Regional Marketing, Segment)and Sales (Automation, ISO),

§ Ensuring the transfer of knowledge of products is done along the sales channel

§ Defining pricing strategy in line with the current channel to market & local market

§ Implementing KPI’s to assess the performance and challenge potential improvement

Requirements:

Education / Experience

- Engineering degree (Electrical Engineering, Marketing or related discipline)

- 5 -10 years in a T&D domain (internal or external), technical background and marketing or commercial experience

- Fluent in English and an additional language will be a plus (Spanish, French, German, etc.)

- PC skills (Microsoft PowerPoint, MS Office, etc.),

- Previous commercial experience will be a plus

Specific knowledge

- Protection and control technologies, communication networks

- A high level of presentation skills

Business understanding

- Good knowledge of Power System and Protection Application

- Good knowledge of Distribution & Transmission Utility and Industrial markets

General

- Enthusiastic and participative team working style

- Excellent written/oral communication skills & interpersonal skills

- Customer focused

- Strong knowledge of pricing, costs and product accounting (eg. KPIs such as ROI)

- Proficiency with presenting and demonstrating technology solutions to customers

- Ability to travel up to 25% of time

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