Product Marketing Manager

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

Newark, a Premier Farnell company, currently has an opportunity available for a Product Marketing Manager in our Chicago, IL facility. The Specialist will provide specialist level technical expertise and consultation to other members of technical team, product, supplier management in terms of technology advancement, product positioning and supplier focus.

 

This role will drive technology development of new products and new emerging suppliers: Marketing all new and existing key suppliers’ technology and products into the EDE customer space.

 

You will perform the following functions in this key role:

· Research and identify new and emerging technologies of strategic interest to Electronic Design Engineering customers.

· Work with regional and divisional product teams to ensure that we have the right product in inventory and to drive regional technology push.

· Work with the Technical Marketing team and formulate a global technology strategy and roadmap.

· Assist with the introduction of new technologies and new suppliers, working closely with the regional supplier management, product and marketing teams.

· Own the technology campaigns regionally in terms of the content, provide input to the regional marketing team in terms of layout and subsequent deployment and work closely with all functions to form a global technology deployment mechanism.

· Assume content responsibility for ED World collectively with other technical marketing managers worldwide.

· Maintain technology/supplier framework identifying product gaps and overlaps, creating reports on technology trends for key commodities to aid PM’s in supplier/product selection.

· Perform applications/product analysis pertaining to end products to identify key components to ensure that Newark offers complete solutions, create reports and provide feedback to PM’s to aid in supplier/product selection.

· Product cross references from supplier to supplier, component to component, component upgrades, maintain product crossing database.

· Work with PM’s to coordinate/identify new supplier initial stocking package, focus products, and evaluate impact on existing framework and strategy.

· Establish and maintain relationships with key suppliers. 

· Work with sales to provide design kits and stock apps engineering labs with Newark sourced product for the purpose of getting print position.

· Direct product teams in the supplier and product choice for the non-stocked On Demand program.

 

You must possess the following requirements and experience to succeed in this position:

· Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, MBA is a plus.

· 8-10 years of technical or marketing experience in the electronic industry.

· Direct experience with design engineers and engineering community.

· Ability to communicate on a highly technical level.

· Experience in a multi-channel electronics distribution environment.

· Proven leadership skills and management experience. Experience working as or with electronic design engineers.Understand design in procedures for highly technical electronic components.Must have some marketing experience on how to technically market products, suppliers and technologies.Have “hands-on” approach but equally to be a strategic thinking person for cooperation with the marketing teams and to develop the segment.Should have international experience in Asia Pacific or North America.

 

Newark offers competitive compensation and benefits, including medical, dental, life insurance, pension and 401k plan.  Relocation benefits available for candidates applying outside of Illinois. 

 

REPLY INFORMATION:

 

If you are interested please forward a WORD version of your resume to the address listed below.