Commercial Notebook Product Planner

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Gathering and understanding key customer insights
• Performing analysis of technology and market trends while developing a market growth opportunity analysis within the industry
• Lead ideation sessions within the group to generate ideas of how to solve customer problems within the Commercial Notebook segment
• Collaborating with other product managers across different businesses to create complete product solutions
• Creating and managing effective content and processes for product positioning and messaging for regional partners, sales force and channel partners
• Working in partnership with downstream NPI & Sustaining Product Management teams to ensure a strong story and strategy for go-to-market and external launch messaging and positioning
• Consistently perform competitive analysis against top industry players to ensure our lineup is differentiated and competitive
• Support growing the business plan for the notebook team and manage products/solutions to meet revenue and profitability goals in line with team targets
• Developing marketing process enhancements to ensure that the overall notebook marketing process can grow and scale with the business
• Preparing key executive and external product strategy presentations

Requirements

• 7+ years marketing experience, preferably in product marketing
• Bachelor's degree in marketing or a related field with strong preference for an MBA
• Thorough understanding and mastery of marketing principles and product development process
• Previous experience in high-tech or personal computers marketing is a plus
• Strong ability to empathize with customers and understand their key pain points and needs from pre-purchase to post-deployment
• Proven experience in successfully managing high-volume product categories
• Ability to effectively work as a leader in a cross functional team environment including business and product development, supply chain and procurement processes
• Aptitude for using an analytical approach to business evaluation and problem-solving, with the understanding of how to effectively communicate proposals, results and implications to management teams and external partners
• Exceptional ability to execute and influence the direction of a product/technology vision and roadmap
• Track record of influencing successful product/solution vision/roadmap and executing to a plan
• Capability to collaborate with and manage external partners in the product development process
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and expertise in communicating with international partners
• Experience in program and process management, with a proven ability to proactively initiate process improvements within a team environment

Nice to Have

• Experience in high-tech or personal computers marketing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in marketing or a related field
• Strong preference for an MBA

Benefits & Perks

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave