Job description
Overview
Product Manager
Competitive Salary
Contract Type: Permanent-Full time.
Location: UK-Harrow
Work Pattern: Hybrid-Remote
Language Skills: English
Estimated Start Date: ASAP
Reporting To: VP Global Product Management
About Us:
Electro Rent is a global leader in test and technology solutions that help organisations accelerate innovation and optimise investments. Electro Rent's single-source solution — including rental, financial solutions, sale of new and used equipment, and asset optimisation — supports leading innovators across many key sectors, including aerospace and defence, automotive, communications, energy, semiconductor, and general electronics. Founded in 1965, Electro Rent operates globally to deliver unmatched technical and commercial flexibility.
About the role:
We’re looking for a commercially minded Product Specialist to join our EMEA team and play a key role in supporting our sales organisation across the region. This is an exciting opportunity to combine your technical product knowledge with commercial insight, helping our teams deliver the right solutions for our customers and drive growth across EMEA.
In this role, you’ll act as a trusted product expert, partnering closely with sales teams to understand customer requirements, identify the right solutions and provide guidance on pricing, deal strategy and value-added opportunities. You’ll also have the opportunity to deliver product training, share your expertise and respond to technical enquiries.
Qualifications
- Good Communications skills
- Strong Interpersonal skills
- Strong ability to liaise with internal and external customers at all levels
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical, Reporting and Presentation skills
- Strong technical and commercial skills
- Commercially driven
- Able to work as a part of the team and autonomously
- Ability to lead/strategic thinking
- Strong business acumen
- Ability to demonstrate extensive Industry knowledge
- Professional negotiation skills
- Good language skills German (native) and English (professional business level)
- Experience with modern ERP systems
Electro Rent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
All offers of employment are subject to receipt of references that prove satisfactory to Electro Rent UK Ltd
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https://www.electrorent.com/uk/gdpr
Responsibilities
1: Support the sales organisations. This will mean:
- Supporting the sales teams by finding the right instruments to meet the customer’s specification
- Advising on rental pricing, deal strategy and value-add selling
- Answering customers’ technical questions and providing technical support generally
- Provide training to the sales teams
- Set-up meetings between sales teams and key-suppliers
- Support the sales team (and the rest of the organisation) by using the Horizon ERP system. This includes suggesting improvements, testing new developments and implement process-changes
2: Manage a part of the total European / Asian rental inventory and working with the Americas’ PM team, the global inventory. This mean looking after a defined number of product groups in the inventory.
Responsibilities will include:
- Monitor the performance, both financially and time wise
- Manage actively refreshment of the inventory
- Maintain purchase forecast
- Support Sourcing team on investments
- Maintain rental and sales prices in our systems
- Maintain product information in our systems
- Maintain relationships with key contacts within the relevant supplier organisations
- Report monthly to management about performance of inventory and actions to be taken