Position Summary

Why join our team?

The role sits within the ETO Category Management team which is responsible for designing, coordinating, communicating, executing and evaluating the strategies and action plans for the European MX business to achieve its regional targets.

Role and Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities

• The role will sit within the Smartphone Category team

• Key impact will be driven by in-depth understanding of the stakeholders’ (cross functional directors and VPs) priorities and form a pragmatic approach to propose strategic approaches in driving demand

• Responsible for the formulation of the European strategy, covering 5 key areas

  • Market Demand

  • Price

  • Competition

  • Partner CoCoCo

  • Big data utilisation

• Market Demand

  • Co-ordinate across 16 Europe Subsidiaries the over-arching shape of the market demand through local market understanding

  • Correlate across multiple data sources as well as Subsidiaries’ local sensing to categorise and cluster market growth opportunities and risks

  • Collaborate closely with category directors to link market demands trends with portfolio and revenue planning

• Price

  • Work closely with Business Operations and Category teams to model the whole value chain of MX product pricing

  • Includes but not limited to (1) market price, (2) whole sale price, (3) pricing compliance

  • Engage in regular update with Commercial Strategy VP and Category directors to regulate and evaluate optimal pricing strategy to market demand

• Competition

  • Establish the cadence for effective competition sensing

  • Partner with the Senior Data Systems Manager and Head of Smartphone to setup effective tools for timely competition understanding

  • Build relational and query data base to facilitate ETO category teams understanding and utilisation of TechInsights, GfK and Meta data

  • Maintain near-real-time competition tracking and sensing tools in line with Category directors’ priorities

• Partner CoCoCo

  • Implement a clear and compelling visualisations and reports that translate Partner activities into insights and actional recommendations

• Big Data Utilisation

  • Team up with Category Director and Senior Data Systems Manager to regularly engage with Suwon big data team to identify:

    • New insights through big data

    • Identify and test potential hypothesis towards business growth

    • Solicitate the support of Suwon teams to build reports for ETO

• Advocacy in AI driven insights

  • Explore and apply AI driven tools and methodologies to enhance data analysis, scenarios planning

What we need for this role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:

• Advanced knowledge and familiarity with SQL a must

• Established expertise in advanced data analytics and modelling a must

• Demonstrated experience in cross functional collaboration and influence a strong plus

• Extensive experience with internal systems and/ or business intelligence platforms a strong plus

• Work towards tight timescales

• Influence key members of the product category teams across geographies

• Work cross-culturally with European and International colleagues

• Communicate confidently with Executive level stakeholders

• Innovate with purpose to create impact

• Experience with process improvement and driving data-centric decision making highly preferred

What does success look like?

• Building towards a high performance team

• Influencing critical thinking across different functions

• Positively Impacting the revenue and profit

• Ensuring alignment and harmony throughout all categories

• Striving towards total category growth

Skills and Qualifications

Benefits of working at Samsung include

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week

• Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance

• Car allowance

• Pension contribution

• Three volunteering days each year

• Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday

• Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products

• Access to a discount shopping portal

• Partner Colleagues are not eligible for certain types of statutory leave such as Samsung Family Leave or Sick Leave policies but may be eligible for statutory payments via their agency

A note on equal opportunities

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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