Senior Product Specialist

This is a great opportunity to join our DRiV Bucharest Global Business Services Center as Senior Product Specialist. 

Reporting to the Senior Group Product Manager, the Senior Product Specialist is responsible for driving product line strategy development and implementation across different functional areas of NA/CA organization. Ensure market growth of respective product lines in terms of revenue, profitability, volume and market share across NA/CA.

What you will do:

• Understand Aftermarket business model and developments.
• Able to collect Market Intelligence from the market and customers to evaluate and report on market trends and align/update strategic product roadmap accordingly. Conduct market research and develop business cases for new product lines. Direct competitive benchmarking to ensure product competitiveness and produce detailed product requirements for the engineering team
• Define new product opportunities and lead cross-functional teams to launch.
• Initiate new product introduction requests in the planning system and define key milestones based on prioritization ranking.
• Track progress and phase status of new product introductions against key milestones, influence cross-functional teams to execute responsibilities against the timeline, identify potential risks and/or delays and drive actions to mitigate delays.
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to actively promote products and win new business.
• Analyze features and benefits of DRiV products versus competitors and collaborate with Pricing Team to define value-based pricing.
• Define root cause and corrective actions when financial gaps against budget are identified.

What you'll have to bring:

• 5+ years of work experience within Engineering, Product Management, Project Management, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Business Development, Strategy, Marketing or Sales.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Excellent project management and overall communication skills.
• Experience owning/driving projects to completion.
• Strong collaboration ability with customers and Sales Team.
• Proficiency with systems.
• Detail-oriented with excellent follow-up, critical-thinking and time management skills.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to influence and drive alignment across functions.
• Ability to work in ambiguous environments and overcome challenges with a high degree of flexibility and professionalism.

What we offer:

• Hybrid work schedule
• 13th salary (paid in 3 installments)
• Additional 5 paid leave days per year (calculated proportionally to the period worked)
• Monthly budget to spend on Flexible Benefits Platform
• Well-being bonus (1-time bonus after probation period)
• A medical subscription (Medicover)
• Access to the Bookster platform
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program

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