Product Marketing Specialist - #254130

Product Marketing Specialist

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This position reports to

Product Market Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will coordinate sales activities, events, proposals, and market research to meet business goals and increase market share. This role will be focused on markets in Canada, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. Working within the grid components group of the Electrification Distribution Solutions in Pinetops, North Carolina, you will be responsible for implementing product marketing strategies in line with global product strategy.

The work model for the role is: - Remote

This role is contributing to the Electrification - Distribution Solutions Division in Pinetops, North Carolina.

You will be mainly accountable to:

• Collaborate with management to define strategic marketing plans and support relevant implementation, including communication and support to the business units to translate it into a relevant marketing strategy. Collects data and provides sound market and competitor intelligence analyses related to global markets and trends. Tracks and provides global market research and analysis results, identifying existing gaps or new growth opportunities.
• Monitor market trends and accordingly recommends improvements in the marketing strategy and plans to meet changing market and competitive landscapes. Provides appropriate market information to support long- to mid-term decision-making on the marketing strategy.
• Provide support in defining the end-user value proposition and communicates it to the target segment, both internal and external.
• Drive sales efficiency by ensuring every salesperson possesses appropriate product and tool knowledge, including both technical and sales aspects.
• Visit customers to understand their needs and ensures the resolution of customer issues.
• Formulate complex proposals, by providing best available product(s)/solution(s) while appropriately addressing technical and commercial considerations for each individual opportunity. Ensures proposals are completed in a timely manner and with appropriate level of detail, including full and accurate cost modeling.
  
  

Our team dynamics

You will join a dynamic, talented, and high performing team, where you will be able to thrive.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Marketing, or Business Management is preferred.
• 8 years of experience in Marketing, Sales, Pricing, Business Development or Engineering, working as a Business Development Manager, Sales Engineer, Proposals Specialist, or similar, with Electrification products.
• Demonstrated experience working with Enterprise Resource Planning and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Sound knowledge of quotations and proposals, as well as understanding of exports and the international market.
• Familiar with Canada, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions and languages is beneficial but not required.
• Travel up to 70%
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.
  
  

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air-and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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