Senior Specialist - Product Management & Compliance (Arabic Speaker)
Job description / Role
Employment: Full Time
Our client is a household name who manufacture, sell and provide after-sales services of their branded home appliances including refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners globally
Job Overview:The Sr. Specialist - Product Management & Compliance is responsible for driving the overall strategy and execution of the Laundry Category within the organization. Additionally, this position is responsible of coordinating standard and regulation processes for all product categories.
This role involves leading cross-functional teams in product development, brand positioning, customer acquisition, and retention, ensuring that both the product roadmap and product strategy are aligned with the company’s strategic goals. The position requires a unique combination of skills, including product management expertise, leadership, and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, design, sales, and other departments.
Key Job Details:- Coordinate and manage standard and regulation processes for all product categories by communicating with factory and customers.
- Lead product development for Washing Machines and Tumble Dryers.
- Conduct market research to identify customer needs and trends.
- Analyze the competitive environment, market share and positioning details.
- Execute pricing and value chain analysis.
Job Responsibilities:
Standard and Regulation:- Coordinate new standard and regulation processes between the factory and the customer.
- Establish a systematic way to track the processes of new regulations for each category.
- Ensure tight collaboration between product managers, sales and technical teams.
- Product Vision: Lead the development of the product vision and roadmap based on market research, customer needs, and competitive analysis.
- Innovation & Development: Ensure a focus on product innovation, defining and delivering features that meet customer needs, solve problems, and differentiate the company in the market.
- Product Lifecycle: Oversee the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to development, launch, and ongoing optimization.
- Range Management: Define regional product ranges to increase SKU efficiency. Manage SKU efficiency and profitability based on criteria set. Execute & manage SKU phase-out process.
- Customer-Centric Design: Advocate for customer feedback and insights to inform product development and enhancements, ensuring the product is designed to meet evolving market demands.
- Performance & Metrics: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for product success, track performance, and adjust strategies as necessary.
- Pricing: Develop price band recommendation for each country. Review positioning, pricing, value chain analysis and build recommendation for countries
- Cross-Department Coordination: Ensure tight collaboration between product, marketing, engineering, sales, and customer support to deliver a seamless customer experience and product success.
- Budget Management: Manage budgets for both product development and marketing, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and maximizing ROI.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks or bottlenecks in product development or marketing execution and address them proactively to keep projects on track.
- Customer Insights: Champion the voice of the customer by collecting and analyzing feedback from customers, sales teams, and other stakeholders to inform both product development and marketing strategies.
- Competitive Analysis: Continuously monitor industry trends, competitor activities, and market shifts, adjusting strategies to maintain a competitive advantage.
- Product Marketing Training: Adapt global training materials to regions / countries.
- Product Training: Execute trainings across the entire region.
- Feasibility Study: Execute feasibility study by working with responsible colleagues in sales and HQ product management.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree with 3 to 5+ years within Consumer Electronics and Home Appliance industry covering Product Management.
- Track record of building and launching new products.
- Strong negotiation, analytical and problem-solving skills with a strategic mindset.
- Affinity with pricing strategies, category management and product launches.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong verbal, written and presentation abilities.
- Experience of working with global teams, and professional proficiency in Arabic language is essential.
- Project management skills.
- Experience in coordinating and orchestrating product standard and certification processes would be a big plus.
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Travel required based on business needs; domestic and international.
Candidate Characteristics:
- Passionate about delivering a beautiful product experience to users regionally.
- Enjoy learning and sharing new things with high levels of curiosity.
- Organized, detailed, goal driven, achievement oriented with a problem solving mindset.
- Able to identify opportunities, take ownership and drive to completion.
- Tenacious, hardworking, creative and an excellent teammate.
- Able to think strategically and tactically.
- Thrives in a highly dynamic work environment.
- Leadership skills to handle complexity in both processes and people.
Additional benefits: Additional benefits
About the Company
KERSHAW LEONARD "WE CHANGE PEOPLES LIVES"
Who we are:
Founded in September 1999 The Kershaw Leonard Group was based upon professional recruitment practices laid down by the UK Institute of Employment Consultants whose values are still at the core of our success today.
Inherently we believe that recruitment is a people business not a CV processing business and as such we take time and care to make sure we understand the needs of both our Clients and our Candidates.
Such attention to the care side of our business together with the sheer length of time we have been established has given us a unique position. We regularly attract top class candidates who only want to work with Kershaw Leonard as they trust our confidentiality and professionalism.Similarly, more than 75% of the clients we work with come back for more when they have a new position to fill.
What we do:
Kershaw Leonard Group places exceptional talent on a Global scale. Our winning strategy is to partner very closely with a small number of clients so we can really understand their objectives, needs and aspirations in a way that allows us to intuitively know the kind of cultural fit they are looking for when the time comes for them to recruit new talent.Then once that talent is on board and part of the client’s team, to assist wherever is needed to improve performance and leadership skills
Why Us:
The Kershaw Leonard Group is more than just a recruitment agency. In addition to KL Recruitment, KL Consulting offers a vast spectrum of skills from our experienced behavioural psychologist and consultants with almost two decades of HR Director level experience in the region.
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