Print Hardware Category Manager for Africa at Hewlett Packard - HP

Responsibilities:

• Deep understanding of the Print Hardware product category, business management and sales challenges and strategies.
• Actively contributes to the definition and execution of the category business plan.
• Establishes relationships and represents Printing category with sales force, marketing and other function at senior level as well as externally with Partners and Distributors
• Product line P&L responsibility in a Multi country environment for a significant share of the product range.
• Product management responsibility in managed territory (NPIs, EOLs)
• May lead overall engagement with one or several sales teams internally and externally
• May lead engagement, partnership with external IT vendor and media

Education and Experience Required:

• University or Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business Management, Marketing or Finance; advanced degree or MBA preferred.
• Typically 8-12 years of professional experience with a combination of Category Management, Marketing, Sales, Business Planning experienced preferred.
• Consumer and/or Commercial Partner management expertise ,
• End User Account management as an alternative.

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.