Senior Product Specialist at Jemi Neil Consulting

Role Summary:
The Senior Product Specialist will be primarily responsible for managing all the company’s product throughout their life cycles. S/he will strictly ensure the right product is produced at the right time to maximize their commercial value and in addition, will work with the Digital Technology team to work on the technical development of products, identify business opportunities for products, establish marketing and promotional strategies, drive sales and maintain awareness on competing products.

Responsibilities:

• To executive timely sales and marketing initiatives.
• To achieve top line sales targets.
• To have good, independent territorial management skills.
• Lead the analysis and implementation of product and rate reviews to ensure that product pricing are competitive.
• Mentor and develop other product specialists and product specialist support through the sharing of knowledge and best practices.
• Develop and enhance productive business relationships by liaising with internal and external stakeholders
• Lead the development of new product activities such as market research, business case development, and initial product design activities & in addition, manages the design and development process to ensure product vision meets determined client needs.
• Lead the product development lifecycle and ideation process
• Provide sales training to support exceptional product delivery

Education/Experience/Skill Requirements

• A first degree in Business Administration or any related field.
• Minimum of 5 years working experience as a Product Specialist in sales, business development, Marketing etc.
• Relevant certifications in Product Management is an advantage
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate at the right level and present information or arguments in a convincing manner.
• Understanding of business drivers, future customer needs and competitive challenge
• Understanding of business case development, use of the Lean Product Development process and Minimal Viable Product development
• Excel-based Financial model skills