Product Specialist

What you will do:
• Understand key competitors and their relative strengths/weaknesses
• Understand customer groups, including why customers buy the product or service
• Identify critical customer needs and preferences
• Provides customer feedback to marketing leadership
• Aid in the construction of the marketing plan
• Understand basic budget management principles
• Understand general marketing principles such as segmentation, targeting, and positioning
• Subject matter expert for applicable products/product lines and able to field technical questions
• Support sales training initiatives and programs throughout the year
• Support the on-label use and promotion of all products
• Understand and supports setting price and maintaining product or portfolio margin
• Aware of commonly used internal/external communication goals, tools and formats
• Use appropriate scorecards to track results
• Track existing KPIs and reports back to the organization
• Share basic customer satisfaction input trends with the salesforce

What you will need:

Minimum Qualifications (Required):
• Bachelor’s degree required
• 1+ years of work experience required

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):
• MBA preferred
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects while delivering on established timelines
• Ability to be persuasive in the absence of organizational authority
• Must be able to understand and work within complex interdivisional procedures and policies
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)