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Position Summary
Why join our team?
Samsung is an amazing place to work full of endless opportunities, exceptional people and an excellent environment. As well as this, Samsung provides the opportunity to be a part of innovation that makes a real difference in the lives of millions people worldwide. Working within the Digital Appliance team, this role will help to support the Product Management team in delivering on our goal to offer the most innovative appliances within peoples homes.
Role And Responsibilities
Purpose of the role
- To provide an elite level of commercial, forecasting and data management/analysis/simulation to the DA Product Team (PM’s) & Senior Leadership Team.
- To use a wide range of data sets to analyse data & contribute to the Product Strategy across all DA categories.
- To support the wider Samsung finance teams with DA related commercial analysis at Local, European & HQ levels.
- Take joint accountability with each product manager for the P&L of each DA category and ensuring the delivery of profitable growth.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Support the development & maintenance of quarterly promotional plans through commercial simulation with sellout, sell in and Profit analysis.
- Create & Maintain PM business planning tools to aid with commercial decision-making.
- Provide scenario planning to the PM team and SLT teams that will guide product management related decisions.
- Work closely with each Product Manager to ensure that all targets for Sell-In and Sell-out (volume and value) as well as profitability are met.
- Analysis of sell-out performance and promotional simulations to monitor accuracy and provide proposals for improvement.
- Support the weekly analysis of product sales forecasts to enable accurate and timely forecasting decisions to be made.
- Take ownership of updating internal commercial forecasts on a monthly basis, adapting to ensure the views of all key team members are accurately reflected.
- Support the launch process for new products and projects across DA and lead the post-launch reporting in the form of a Launch Dashboard – analysing performance and making appropriate recommendations for action.
- Be the lead in the Annual Planning budget setting working with the PM & HQ teams to load the budget into the system on time and aligned to KPI’s
What We Need For This Role
To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:
- Advanced level of Excel skills
- Ideally Fluent in Korean & English
- Experience of handling large quantities of data to make complicated decisions
- Excellent verbal & written communications skills & comfortable presenting at all levels
- Creative thinking with an ability to break complex problems down into simple, meaningful solutions
- Self-motivator and self-starter
- Excellent attention to detail
- Flexible & adaptable with ability to work in cross functional teams
- Ability to work at a fast pace, with accuracy, in a changing environment across multiple projects
- Ability to make decisions with full understanding of impacts and wider business trade offs
What does success look like?
- High level commercial foresight
- Advanced data-handling capability
- Well developed creative problem solving skills
- The ability to deliver excellence in collaboration with others
The interview process
Two stage interview process – 1 Stage with Hiring Manager, (Head of Product ) if shortlisted; 2nd stage will be Technical assessment (analytics and presentation of findings) and meeting the Head of Product Management & Senior PM.
Skills And Qualifications
Benefits of working at Samsung include
- Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week
- Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance
- Car allowance
- Pension contribution
- Three volunteering days each year
- Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday
- Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products
- Access to a discount shopping portal
- Partner Colleagues are not eligible for Samsung Enhanced Paid Sick Leave but may be eligible for statutory payments from their payroll agency
- Up to 20 (pro-rata) Partner Absence days per calendar year to be used in times of need
A note on equal opportunities
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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