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Role: Product Marketing Manager
Located: Northampton (Hybrid)
Package: Competitive salary, bonus and additional company benefits
(Ricoh operate a vibrant working policy giving you flexible hybrid working options)
About Ricoh:
Ricoh is a global technology business. As a company born in print, we design and manufacture graphic solutions that transform communications. To keep up with the pace of change in the workplace, we have built an extensive portfolio of innovative, industry-leading digital services spanning everything from Cloud & IT infrastructure solutions to process automation tools.
Everything we do is designed to help individuals achieve fulfilment through work. Through technology, we make work smarter and more creative. Enabling people to lead purposeful working lives and organisations to become more productive, sustainable and profitable.
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What you will be doing
This role’s purpose is to directly support the professional printing business group (Ricoh Graphic Communications) to ensure the allocated product and service portfolio meets company objectives (market share, growth, revenue and gross margin), is market-ready and orderable, and is accepted and understood by all sales channels.
* To ensure all products & services are orderable on the back-office systems.
* Manage the Promotions and Pricing process to ensure all funds are claimed and collected from Group HQ and Suppliers
* Own & maintain relationships with key Supply Chain Management & Business Operations teams to ensure stock availability & distribution of the products & services.
* To be the principle contact for nominated Third Party Suppliers to manage the associated activities required to build a compelling offer.
* Act as primary contact for the specialist product portfolio to meet the company goals of revenue, unit sales & strong profit. Including responding to Sales queries
* Drive the professional printing portfolio roadmap to include a successful launch programme and the management through its lifecyle.
* Create Sales Enablement tools to ensure business confidence & success in promoting the portfolio. To include training coordination, building effective presentations & event participation.
* Support the messaging & content that enables the successful promotion of the portfolio through campaigns, PR, advertising & promotions.
* Manage the product performance to include regular financial & unit reporting, customer evaluation & competitor analysis that ensures the products are fit for the target market(s).
You will ideally have
* Some experience in B2B Product Marketing Management ideally within the professional printing sector
* Strong administrative skills, working on company back-office systems
* Graduate caliber and/or significant marketing experience
* Strong understanding of the communications mix, together with a competency of digital marketing
* Understanding of agile marketing methodologies
* Excellent communications skills with ability to communicate with people at all levels
* Experience of managing supplier partnerships
* Ability to learn new and complex technologies so that concepts can be communicated at all levels of the organisation
* High attention to detail with excellent numeracy skills i.e., margin, markups
* Ability to manage cross functional project teams to achieve results
* Well organized and able to manage multiple projects / tasks
* Copywriting & editing skills
We are an equal opportunities employer
We are open to discussing adjustments to the recruitment process if needed. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
Striving for inclusion and diversity isn’t just the right thing to do. Diverse approaches, perspectives and experiences make us more innovative, lead to better decisions and help us better understand the needs of our customers.
To empower you to bring your full identity to work, we have employee-led affinity groups in LGBTQ+, gender and ethnicity that allow members to explore issues and challenges surrounding shared identities, experiences and beliefs.
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