• Truck Product Manager

    Carrier (Athens, GA)


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    About this role:

    The Truck Product Manager is a critical and high visibility position managing the medium and light duty truck product lines within the Carrier Transicold Americas truck-trailer organization. The Truck Product Manager oversees all aspects of the truck product and support functions, both internal and external to the truck-trailer organization.

    Key Responsibilities:

    + Developing and implementing both short- and long-term product and component strategy initiatives

    + Working with the program management team and marketing functions on new product introductions

    + Managing products through their life cycle, including obsolescence strategies

    + Interacting with cross functional groups (engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales) to ensure initiatives meet schedule, cost and quality targets

    + Analyzing and monitoring the regulatory environment and assuring product compliance

    + Engaging with MarCom resources to develop effective sales and promotional materials

    + Developing and executing effective customer focused messages and campaigns

    + Conducting customer visits and answering questions regarding the breadth of the truck product line

    + Traveling to customer and dealer locations and assisting sales with high level presentations, or new product introductions

    + Developing and delivering presentation materials to large audiences

    + Providing interviews with trade media or representing the company on discussion panels at trade shows

    + Interacting closely with Carrier’s sales force, field service engineers, and dealer network to assist with applications and sales efforts

    + Responding in a timely and professional manner to various customer requests

    + Evaluating and benchmarking competitive equipment and develop effective sales communications tools on the comparative advantages of Carrier Transicold equipment

    Required Qualifications:

    + Bachelor’s degree

    + 5 + years of experience in a front-line business position (sales, marketing, service, applications, etc.)

    + Position requires 15% to 20% travel

    Preferred Qualifications:

    + MBA preferred

    + 10 + years of experience in a technical environment

    + Candidate must have a proven record of leadership, strategic thinking, and project management with a business mindset, including the ability to grasp complex situations and extract key points and motives and effectively communicate and quickly act on them.

    + Candidate should have excellent interpersonal skills, and be able to professionally represent the company in both writing and in oral communications (media relations, presentations, sales training, management presentations, etc.)

     

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