Assistant Manager / Deputy Manager - Product Management

• Play integral role in assuring the Franklin 5 Key Factors - Quality, Availability, Service, Innovation, and Value are effectively maintained for assigned products.
• Analyzes new product requests, pricing research, and competitor research to manage products and product lines.
• Manages existing product lines based on forecast, performance, profitability, and required changes or modifications.
• Regularly performs pricing, profitability, and competitive analysis and recommends strategies to improve market position, improve quality, simplify product structure, or reduce costs.
• Monitors specification sheets, instructions, presentations, and other marketing services.
• Identifies opportunities to achieve sales goals, objectives, and action plans. Seeks new customer opportunities and maintains current customer relationships.
• In conjunction with Market Development team, analyzes market segments to identify “wants & needs” of segments, competitive positioning, market drivers, technology trends, market size, and sub-segments.
• Develops short- and long-term forecasts, budgets, inventory plans, strategies, and marketing programs required to meet sales objectives.
• Defines new product opportunities and develops robust business case in support of new product development projects.
• Leads assigned product teams in prioritization of key projects and activities including new product development, quality improvement, and value improvement projects
• Attends market specific trade shows, state and regional shows, and territory seminars and reports on key trends, customers, competitors, market drivers and technologies.
• Works with the marketing team to ensure that marketing tools such as collateral, packaging, catalogs, Internet presence, etc., meets customer demand.
• Provides customer service as necessary through open houses, product application and sizing, and informing customers of product changes.
• Performs other related duties as required or assigned.

• Strong business and analytical skills to formulate strategic options including pursuing opportunities, identifying key partners and potential acquisition candidates.
• Works effectively leading cross functional teams including both technical and commercial resources.
• Deals with problems involving several known variables in situations of routine nature.
• Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Identifies the underlying principles, reasons, facts, or information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Effectively communicates information and responds to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, the general public, and other employees of the organization.
• Maintains confidentiality and uses discretion with business information.
• Reads and understands documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Writes routine reports and correspondence.
• Utilizes common-sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral, or diagrammed instructions.
• Plans the time, method, manner, and/or performance sequence of own work; may also occasionally assist in planning work assignments performed by others within a limited area of operation.
• Frequently makes decisions of both minor and major importance, which may affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a moderate degree.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical / Electrical) and preferably MBA (Marketing)
• 5 to 10 Years of experience in the water systems industry or related field.

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