Product specialist

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our New Product Introduction Specialist supports portfolio leaders, commercial teams, and product managers with New Product Introduction best practices and action plans, ensuring that appropriate financial metrics are established and achieved for all Gilbarco Veeder-Root Fueling Solutions’ new products.

This global role will require partnering with team members across multiple time zones which will require early morning / late evening meetings.

WHAT YOU WILL DO :

• Partner with business unit R&D and product management teams on new product timelines, business cases, and product launches
• Partner with regional sales and marketing / branding teams to ensure the right marketing collateral is understood, accessible and used to drive customer awareness and funnel
• Build, continuously improve, and deploy standard work for new product commercialization globally
• Work with PMO to integrate commercialization best practices into PMO Standard Work
• Ensure excellence in global new product commercialization and transparency on launch timing across product categories and regions.
• Perform data analysis to understand new product performance for Fueling Solutions,
• Perform Win-Loss Analysis on new product launches and provide insights to global product managers
• Manage both Veeder-Root and Gilbarco Cooperative Marketing programs to enable our key customers with additional business development resources
• Report on commercialization wins, losses, opportunities, and roadblocks at a strategic level, problem solving with regional sales and product ownership against misses
• Own countermeasure development and enforcement for systemic new product development issues that arrive in problem solving
• Work directly with finance, sales, and global product teams to develop and validate new product financial targets for new calendar years
• Act as commercial touchpoint and interface between global organization and regional teams, addressing business case development, orders issue management, special price requests, and key international distributor relationships

ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE

• 2 years product development, technical product support, or R&D engineering experience required, preferably with retail petroleum equipment focus
• Experience creating processes to launch new products to enable commercializing products in global regions
• 2 years Previous project management / entry level product management experience a plus
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
• In-depth understanding of business systems and data analysis
• Entrepreneurial spirit, ability to think outside the box to enable and accelerate future growth
• Results oriented
• Proficient in process improvement tools and techniques
• Bachelor’s degree in technology, business or marketing field preferred

Retail Solutions is a business unit of Gilbarco Veeder-Root driving growth globally through retail solutions strategy, point-of-sale (POS) & payment solutions and cloud platforms to expand the company’s convenience retail offering.

Gilbarco Veeder-Root is the worldwide technology leader for retail and commercial fueling operations offering the broadest range of integrated solutions from the forecourt to the convenience store and head office.

For over 150 years, Gilbarco Veeder-Root has earned the trust of its customers by providing long-term partnership, uncompromising support, and proven reliability.

Major product lines include fuel dispensers, point-of-sale systems, consumer facing technologies, payment solutions, tank gauges, retail software development and integration and fleet management systems.

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Vontier Corporation and all Vontier Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and other characteristics protected by law."

Last updated : 2024-05-22