EMEA Notebook Product Manager

- Degree in Marketing and/or Business preferably with a strong analytical discipline
- Minimum of 3 years experience in product management, preferably in IT
- Strong communication skills
- Fluent in English

University education (Master's degree)

English - Advanced (C1)

Product Life Cycle (PLC) Management:
- Manages specific platform lifecycles from planning to end of life (EOL)
- Co-ordinates end to end product launches across the region (implements/drives formalized checklists), ensuring successful & timely launches designed to deliver maximum impact, as well as superior inventory management execution (minimizes liability on EOL products)
- Drives consistency in providing product/mix guidance to the geographies on ramp plans, transitions & EOL planning

Product Development:
- Stakeholder in the product development process, with geographies & the Worldwide (WW) Product Group (PG) to ensure the appropriate products for the market
- Exercises superior business acumen in analyzing return on investment levels (ROI) / strategic importance on such projects for prioritizing / decision making purposes.
- Tactical Execution: Proactively conducts market & competitor analysis to identify business opportunities, provide insightful & actionable outputs across products, markets & competitors
- Provides in-depth competitive analysis on a quarterly & ad-hoc basis, including product positioning / SWOT analysis. Delivers Subject Matter Expert (SME) support to the geography sales & marketing teams, on both technology & products
- Provides monthly/quarterly roadmap updates to relevant extended teams.

Pricing:
- Works with the pricing teams to provide appropriate competitor mapping, and associated Price, Features, Value (PFV) analysis input

Planning:
- Develops quarterly & annual financial plans for specific products via advanced analysis & recommendations
- Works with pricing and marketing teams to ensure recommendations are translated to actionable plans

Business Management System:
- Proactively engages with peers & other functional departments on executing programs to achieve goals

Lenovo is a company in a constant state of creation. Here, you'll architect your own career, pioneer new ideas and master new skills.

Lenovo Slovakia employs more than 25 nationalities and is the biggest shared service center in Lenovo Group.

Our people share a common aspiration to be the very best. Whether serving our customers, working together as a team or contributing to the community, we are working to build unique company.