PRODUCT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE

Verbatim Americas seeks an entry level Product Management Associate to handle day to day product line support activities. Become proficient / familiar with product line, vendor costs, pricing and margins.  Work closely with the Senior Manager, Product Management to understand the products and the business and provide project work and product line maintenance activities. This job is located in Charlotte, NC.

Responsibilities include:

• Maintain/summarize updated vendor pricing.
• Works with buyer/planner on special vendor pricing offers.
• Price approvals for bids and promotions.
• Assist in coordinating and making recommendations related to pricing strategy.
• Review costs and provide pricing for bid quotations.
• Identify items for promotion based on excess inventory status or other strategy.
• Bring opportunities from vendors to sales.
• Perform product line maintenance add sku's /discontinue items as needed.
• Create new product request entries, Marketing forms, and add new sku's to Verbatim tracker site as required.
• Special project support as needed.
• Become proficient with data warehouse to produce pivot table reports as required to analyze business or sales results/trends. Develop chart/graphs as required to support reporting needs.
• Good communication skills along with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related area; will consider recent graduate.
• Experience in the computer peripheral products industry is preferred.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Ability to understand the basic technical features of each of our products, how they work, and what they are used for by our customers/consumers.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The position will be located in a typical environmentally-controlled office environment where the noise level is usually moderate to low.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand or walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.

 
PLEASE, NO PHONE CALLS.

We thank all applicants; however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Verbatim is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor: Equal Opportunity Employer (Disability/Veteran).

Verbatim is a great place to work and offers an excellent benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, 401(k), group life insurance, long- and short-term disability, PTO, employee assistance plan and more!!