Area Category Manager Personal Systems

Description -

HP is hiring and talent is our only criteria.

We are now looking for You, who can join the passionate category management team and community for business personal systems.

In this role, you would be a key resource at HP Nordics being responsible to maintain an attractive product category around business notebooks and business desktops. We are looking for an engaged team player with a broad scope of capabilities. You need to be both solid in analytical thinking as well as possess excellent communication and presentation skills.

You would work in a highly dedicated team that consists of area category managers and pricing managers across the Nordic region.

The work consists of but is not limited to:

• Analyze and understand Nordic distribution market of business notebooks and desktops.

• Create the most compelling portfolio stored in local inventory.

• Based on analysis set the most attractive price offering.

• Communicate strategy and tactics on the HP business notebook and desktop offering to internal and external stakeholders for most efficient execution.

• Continuously analyze sales trends and inventory in collaboration with key stakeholders and adjust tactics accordingly.

• Provide feedback to central category teams based on the needs from Nordic market.

• Creating an engagement with sales teams and partners on our offering through all means of communication

• Actively contribute to category business plans and management

• Planning for successful new product introduction and market plans

Education and Experience Required:

• University or Bachelor’s degree

• Typically, 5-10 years of professional experience with a combination of Marketing, Sales, Business Planning experienced preferred.

• Consumer and/or Commercial Partner management expertise. End User Acct management as an alternative.

Knowledge and Skills:

• IT industry knowledge.

• Business planning skills, multidimensional.

• Financial planning and modelling skills, comfortable to manage high complexity business planning and reporting.

• Proven communication skills at senior management internally and externally.

• Knowledge of promotional marketing processes and practices.

• Negotiation skills and ability to frame the product value proposition to customers/partners.

• Leadership skills and cross functional expertise (sales, supply chain, marketing.

HP will give you the tools and means to make the best of you but the responsibility to perform will be within you, therefor an internal drive and self-motivation is more than averagely needed in this role.

At HP we measure and reward our employees based on performance, therefore it is an important part of the business year to be the owner of your own performance, knowing that you will have a supportive manager who enables you to perform at your best. We strongly believe in learning and will give you the tools to learn and expand your knowledge and thinking as long as the initiative comes from you.

Along with being part of the local team you will also belong to a virtual team with representatives from other countries. Fluency in Swedish and English is a demand and knowledge in other Nordic languages will be helpful for yourself. The corporate language is English.

We welcome all applicants who have read this add and know by now that we were thinking of you... No matter the gender or function variation you might have, we welcome all and will make sure you thrive with us

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Job -

Sales

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (Sweden)

Travel -

25%

Relocation -

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) - 

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