Product Specialist

Location

Highland Heights, KY | United States

Job description

Prysmian, with North American headquarters in Highland Heights, Kentucky, is a leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products for the communications, energy, industrial and specialty markets. The Company offers competitive strengths in such areas as breadth of product line, brand recognition, distribution and logistics, service and operating efficiency. Communications wire and cable products transmit low-voltage signals for voice, data, video and control applications. Energy cables include low-, medium- and high-voltage power distribution and power transmission products.

The Elevator & Escalator Business Unit, Draka EHC, offers a diverse portfolio of high-quality elevator products including traveling cable, compensation cable, hoistway cable, wire rope, coated steel rope, rope brakes, wireway, harnessing, and lubricants. For escalators and moving walks Draka EHC offers essential handrail solutions, field splicing services, skirt brushes, rollers, replacement parts and more. 

Position Summary & Scope

The Product Specialist is responsible for monitoring the performance of the assigned product lines, taking action to achieve sales, maximize operating profit and managing finished goods inventory.

Reporting to the Product Manager, the Product Specialist manages assigned product groups. This role monitors order intake, backlog changes and order outflows to ensure successful execution to the volume and financial commitments of their respective product groups. 

The Product Specialist acts as a first line of escalation for our sales team on customer orders that have shifted beyond committed dates and works closely with our supply chain team on prioritization of products within their responsibility. An ability to be flexible and comfortable with quickly changing priorities to meet the needs of the business and manage and priorities in a fast-paced environment is of great value in this role.

 

Responsibilities

• Coordinates quotation activity for the applicable product categories
  • Perform customer/product pricing analysis to maximizing profitability
  • Implement pricing strategies consistent with business strategies
  • Create and maintain pricing database and reports to maintain a competitive position
  • Process quote requests in collaboration with Sales, Engineering and Supply Chain
  • Analyze supply agreements and costs to provide recommendations for pricing strategy
  • Analyze and update quotation terms and conditions as needed
• Work with sales and supply chain to manage surplus and slow-moving inventory
• Coordinate the product details within Prysmian’s ERP systems
• Manage customer complaints and create reports to analyzing trends and improvement projects
• Create reports to monitor KPI’s at both the product and customer level using Excel
• Research Business Development opportunities on both product and market level, provide analysis and prepare presentations per requests
• Support monthly forecast for product group forecast of metric tons, revenue, and margin
• Represent team in meetings in absence of the Product Manager
• Partner the Business Unit Financial Analyst on projects as assigned
• Support the monthly and quarterly hedge process
• Manage the quarterly price sheet updates to customers and in Prysmian’s ERP system
• Identify best practices and establish, document, and monitor policies and procedures

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years working with statistical tools including data mining, trend analysis, correlation, forecasting, and ability to draw insightful conclusions.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Experience working in cross-functional teams
• Microsoft Excel moderate skill, advanced preferred
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
• Preferred ability to apply LEAN principles to streamline processes
• Experience working in a sales, marketing, and or product management function also preferred

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