Schauenburg Systems

Product Specialist

• Manage all aspects of a predefined product line within the Strategic Business Unit, including roadmap, technical, marketing, and support activities
• Define product vision, strategy, and roadmap for new and existing products
• Manage customer requirements and needs
• Act as the communication link between sales, support, and engineering
• Define priorities among sales, support, and engineering with reference to product development
• Align with the brand management division roadmap and vision
• Manage beta product trials, proof-of-concepts, and trials
• Manage customer feedback strategies to ensure customer satisfaction
• Manage marketing intelligence strategies for the applicable product line
• Manage product positioning strategies and define product specifications for the target market
• Manage product pricing strategies and monitor product cost achievability
• Manage product launch and promotional marketing strategies
• Manage the team of product specialists to fulfil these responsibilities

Regions Product Specialist

Supply Chain

• Plan, develop, optimize, organize, direct, manage, evaluate and remain accountable for the organization's supply chain processes
• Plan, organize, direct, manage and evaluate supply chain personnel, operations and budget
• Lead customer service, purchasing, inventory control, forecasting, warehousing, transportation and shipping
• Direct hiring, training, supervision, mentoring and performance evaluations of supply chain employees
• Coordinate, assign, monitor and review supply chain work
• Understand customer needs and maintain positive relationships with key customer personnel
• Manage vendor relationships
• Collaborate with employees, departments, senior management and decision makers
• Develop annual plans and contribute to supply chain strategy
• Execute procurement functions, including contract management, sourcing strategies, agreement negotiation and contract management
• Track shipments and stock levels using Syspro
• Implement transaction management best practices
• Monitor corporate governance and regulatory compliance
• Identify and manage supply chain risk
• Address tactical and strategic supply chain issues
• Apply advances in supply chain technology to improve processes
• Establish KPIs, monitor performance and improve results against goals
• Implement systems, best practices, inventory control, demand planning and other optimizations
• Develop profit improvement and change management plans
• Resolve work-related problems and prepare progress and other reports
• Communicate values and business goals to internal and external stakeholders
• Manage contractor and subcontractor activities
• Identify potential supply chain improvement projects and commission selected projects
• Develop and deliver oral presentations
• Manage or execute product life cycle/range management

Regions Product Specialist

Supply Chain Manager