Area Category Manager - Central and North Africa, Consumer Business at Hewlett Packard - HP

Responsibilities

• Broad understanding of the category product, business management and sales challenges and strategies.
• Actively contributes to the definition of the category business plan.
• Establishes relationships and represents team with sales force and other partners at senior level.
• Product line and quota responsibility for a significant share of the product range, or a specific customer segment.
• Functional responsibility for the team in one or several areas (market analysis, marketing engagement, SF communication etc).
• May participate in engagement/partnership with external IT vendor.

Education And Experience Required

• University or Bachelors degree in Marketing or Finance.
• Typically 5-8 years of professional experience with a combination of Marketing, Sales, Business Planning experience preferred.
• Consumer and/or Commercial Partner management expertise.

Knowledge And Skills

• IT industry knowledge.
• Business planning skills, multidimensional.
• Financial planning and modelling skills, comfortable to manage high complexity business planning and reporting.
• Strong communication skills at senior management internally and externally.
• Knowledge of promotional marketing processes and practices.
• Negotiation skills and ability to frame the product value proposition to customers/partners.
• Leadership skills and cross functional expertise (sales, supply chain, marketing.