Senior Product Manager / Director, Product Management

All of us at EFI are relentlessly focused on the growth and success of the print business. That’s why print providers worldwide turn to EFI to help build their brilliant future. Our worldwide team members are passionate about driving our customers’ business growth with a scalable portfolio of products, solutions, services, support, and world-class partnerships for the manufacturing of signage, packaging, textiles, ceramic tiles, building materials, commercial print, and personalized documents with a wide range of printers, inks, digital front ends, and workflow solutions. Our unwavering commitment is to increase their profits, cut costs, improve productivity, and optimize efficiency — job after job, year after year. We’re obsessed with our customers’ success. And we believe we have the right people, technology, and experience to help businesses achieve their goals.

EFI is looking for a Director of Product Management / Senior Product Manager to join our company in our growing industrial inkjet packaging business located in the Valencia region of Spain. This role will be on-site. In this role you will function as a GM for a product line, with clear ownership from initial concept through development, market introduction and end of life. Responsibilities will include researching the end user’s needs and wants, competitive positioning, defining the market opportunity, translating market needs into product definition, working with engineering to craft the final product definition, creating the product positioning, and developing documentation / marketing materials to help sales maximize revenue and market share.

What you will do

• Go beyond systems technology and establish a growing SAAS business focused on production management reporting, remote diagnostics and ultimately remote fix.
• Research the market, interviewing end users to identify unmet needs, highlight key value propositions and translate it into key product specifications.
• Understand market requirements (MRD) and support the definition of product concept and requirements (PRD) that meet customer needs
• End-to-end product lifecycle management including managing working capital impacts.
• Support decisions on trade-offs with respect to time, features, resources and quality to meet the business objectives
• Support the development of clear product positioning including pricing and sales strategy and create messaging platform to provide foundation for outbound marketing
• Contribute to go-to-market plan including messaging, target verticals, sales enablement, demand generation activities, etc.
• Develop and manage price positioning, pricing, including ongoing support, pricing tactics, trade-in programs, bundling etc.
• Work with R&D, applications, demo center, program management and sales to ensure successful product qualification and launch
• Manage the business (revenue, margin, portfolio share with key partners, etc.) of the product line; take actions necessary to achieve growth and profitability goals
• Monitor and respond to external factors including competition, market and technology trends
• Analyze and benchmark competitive products across the business unit product line, monitor competitive activity and identify customer needs; make adjustments as necessary
• Develop ROI and Breakeven analysis to correctly position products.
• Support the creation of competitive white papers and other documents for the sales teams that highlight the SWOT, and how EFI’s products should be positioned in the market
• Be the ultimate advocate and field resource, helping sales maximize revenue and market share.

Qualifications

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