Vacancy: Product Manager: Proline

Product Manager: Proline

Role Description

Location: Midrand, South Africa

Full-time and Office based

Reporting Line: Brand Executive: Proline

Job Purpose

The successful candidate will be responsible for driving the internal Proline sales and product processes
to achieve targets and to act as a bridge between the internal brand team as well as the organization’s
sales team and the vendor.

Recruitment Specialist

[email protected]

• Developing and maintaining relationships with Proline team members, internal sales teams applicable customers
• Achieving monthly sales and stock targets
• Continuously developing and understanding product knowledge
• Providing relevant product training internally and to different branches
• Delivering reports and target tracking information as required
• Implementing Pinnacle strategy and policies in alignment with the product
• Supporting products through PDF spec sheets, web info, sales support, and customer systems
• Positioning and pricing products effectively
• Updating product details on the webpage
• Assisting sales staff with quotations
• Providing pre-sales and post-sales support to sales staff
• Aligning all resources to ensure efficiency
• Staying updated on developments and trends in the Enterprise market
• Understanding technology roadmaps for future planning
• Assisting with product codes, pricelists, and costing on the system
• Attending weekly sales meetings and resolving stock issues
• Driving active and aging stock management
• Managing the order process to maintain service and stock levels
• Handling rebates and incentives from suppliers
• Liaising with suppliers for promotional funds and materials
• Maintaining relationships with customers to understand their requirements and incorporating them into stock forecasting
• Developing and presenting/facilitating product presentations, training and information to different audiences

Experience and Knowledge:

• Matric
• A Sales or Marketing tertiary diploma/degree will be advantageous
• 3-5 years working experience in a Product Management environment will be advantageous
• Experience working in the IT Distribution industry
• Entry-level technical exposure on IT basics
• Experience working in a customer-orientated environment

Skills and Education:

• Must understand the IT market and the specific needs of the different market segments (select resellers, resellers, and end-users)
• Good administration skills
• Ability to create, update, and use data in a spreadsheet as well as to analyze, interpret, and use reports (for stock management, product reordering, aging stock, etc)
• Ability to complete a task with minimum supervision
• Customer service and service quality orientated
• Good time management with the ability to work within a high-stress and pressurized environment
• Ability to take initiative
• Good negotiation skills
• Diplomatic and respectful communication
• Excellence orientated
• Able to act as a communication point of contact for various teams and stakeholders
• Good business communication – written and verbal
• Decisive and able to apply logical judgment to a variety of business scenarios

• Excellent communicator
• Advanced networking skills
• Good relationship building skills
• Analytical thinker and problem solver
• Proactive and positive individual
• Organized and good at planning
• Self-managed
• Good attention to detail
• High energy levels
• High level of customer service
• Must be able to work under pressure as this is a mission critical product set

Compliance Competencies

• Perform all duties with integrity, to the highest ethical standards, and in compliance with all relevant legal, contractual and other requirements as mandated by the Company Code of
  Conduct
• Keep up to date with changes in applicable compliance obligations, controls and measures relevant to the role

All applications in the form of a detailed CV must be forwarded to:

Recruitment Specialist
[email protected]