Remote Work: No
Overview:
At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working to make everyday life better. United by curiosity and care, we develop dynamic solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.
Being a part of Zebra Nation means being seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our diverse perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are a part of a team pushing boundaries to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.
You have opportunities to learn and lead at a forward-thinking company, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes that you care about – locally and globally. We’ve only begun reimaging the future – for our people, our customers, and the world.
Let’s create tomorrow together.
Zebra is waiting for you! Come and join our world class manufacturing and distribution centre based at Přestanov near to Ústí nad Labem.
Joining the Zebra Přestanov family means being seen, heard, valued, and respected in a supportive and collaborative environment. Here, you’ll have opportunities to learn and grow your skill set at a leading global technology company.
Our site at Přestanov is one of seven manufacturing facilities across the globe with other manufacturing sites in the US, UK and Holland. Here at our facility, we are starting our printing manufacturing. Our customers print these products with barcodes to identify and track assets, places, and people throughout their business. Our products are shipped to over 100 countries globally to customers operating in retail, health care, manufacturing, and logistics industries.
The Product Management team is responsible for determining Zebra’s product offerings and driving development, launch, and adoption of product to positively impact the customers’ experience and market share. The product manager works autonomously to own product lifecycle management for assigned product lines.
Responsibilities:
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Through comprehensive knowledge of market, competitive landscape, customer requirements,
distribution channels and Zebra offerings, anticipates market and customer requirements for assigned product(s).
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Works collaboratively with other functions to develop and align on business objectives.
Owns development of business case by completing supportive research, authoring
slides, and delivering presentations to internal and external audiences, routinely including senior
management.
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Monitors and reports business metrics against plan. Recommends metrics to assess business
performance. Develops documentation of product and market requirements. Inputs towards integrated business plan.
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Owns product lifecycle management for assigned product lines of moderate complexity
including tactical execution, managing custom requirements, developing and driving end of life plans and execution of inventory objectives.
- Demonstrates full knowledge of development process
- Works to design and create the product offer, coordinates post launch activities such as sales support, bid and quote support, and customer presentations.
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Monitors financial performance of product lines and makes recommendations for pricing action
against revenue and margin objectives. Recommends target product costs for new products. Evaluates cost reduction initiatives working in concert with manufacturing, external suppliers, and other internal partners
- Develops pricing strategy with manager support. Recommends product price to maximize sales and profitability.
- Recommends promotion strategy by working in collaboration with Product Marketing department.
- Supports product launch by providing a comprehensive understanding of the value proposition. Deliver product training to sales, sales engineers, technical support and other internal and external stakeholders.
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Works closely with development teams and other key stakeholders to oversee new product
development validating development is on spec. Identifies beta site targets, drafts, and implements plans.
Qualifications:
Preferred Education: Degree qualified
Preferred Work Experience (years): Minimum 5 years of experience in Product management or customer facing technical product role
Key Skills and Competencies:
- Strong attention to detail / quality
- Strong process adherence
- Advanced level skills in Microsoft business applications including: Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook
- Customer services values / orientation
- Strong professional work behaviors (attendance, teamwork, time management, follow through)
- Advanced analytical and organizational skills
- Demonstrates good judgement in decision making, applies knowledge and experience to guide decisions
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong communication skills (listening, providing clear and concise information, using proper language and grammar)
- Advanced problem solving skills
- English full proficiency
- German language is very nice to have
Why You’ll Love Zebra Technologies
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Career advancement: The opportunity to create an IPD (Individual Development Plan) to help shape your future with Zebra.
- Training: Depending on the role and location, we’ll provide you with all the specific training required for your role, we are also partnered with Preston College to provide growth and development opportunities for all employees
- Development: Being a Zebra Technologies employee means a wealth of personal and professional opportunities for those who are keen on looking for “what’s next” and are not afraid to take initiative
- Zebra Values: We have our 5 core values of Integrity, Teamwork, Agility, Accountability & Innovation
- Zebra herd: You will be joining a herd of over 9000+ colleagues spread globally in over 120 countries, with a global company turnover of over $5 billion.
To protect candidates from falling victim to online fraudulent activity involving fake job postings and employment offers, please be aware our recruiters will always connect with you via @zebra.com email accounts. Applications are only accepted through our applicant tracking system and only accept personal identifying information through that system. Our Talent Acquisition team will not ask for you to provide personal identifying information via e-mail or outside of the system. If you are a victim of identity theft contact your local police department.