Product/Application Manager - Refrigeration Food Retail

Company Description

MAKE THE DIFFERENCE! THINK CUSTOMER FIRST! EXPERIMENT! CARE! BE OPEN!

Do you want to make a difference? Our goal is to always put customers and people first! Our challenge is to experiment and innovate, being open to change and diversity. These are the pillars of the Carel Culture Code, the basis of our corporate culture and our platform for growth. If you can relate to these values or want to make them your own, join us and find out just how much we can achieve together!

We are world leaders in control solutions for air conditioning, refrigeration and heating, as well as systems for humidification and adiabatic cooling. Our products guarantee high performance, are energy efficient and environmentally sustainable.

Position

• Join our team as “Product/Application Manager-Refrigeration Food Retail” from our headquarters' offices in Padova, IT. and remotely from home. We consider a great mix working remotely from home and meeting colleagues in the offices.

CAREL is an innovative global high-tech company, leader in the evolution of control technology and humidification for air conditioning and refrigeration, listed at the Italian stock exchange.

To foster our continuous growth, we're strengthening our organization by looking at smart professionals willing to join the team as contributors to company mission and goals.

S/he hierarchically reports to the Group Solution Marketing Manager Food Retail.

Marketing Unit Food Retail is a team dedicated to identifying, defining, launching and promoting solutions to cope with customers’ needs. Solutions are made of a variety of electronic and mechanical elements, as well as software applications and are meant to control the refrigeration part of Food Retail shops, which includes refrigerated display cabinets, condensing units compressor racks and other subsystems**.

MAIN GOAL

For our Solution Marketing department we are looking for a Group Application Manager for the Food Retail vertical. She/He will lead the growth of the assigned applications from a global perspective.

Within the role, s/he:

• Master a deep knowledge of the competitive landscape, technological market trends and regulations framework

• Develope the current marketing segmentation

• Develope a successful product and solution offer according to market segment value proposition

• Listening to customer voice analyzing customer feedback to improve the product offer

• Evaluate the development of new products/solutions exploring customer requirements, defining value proposition, building Business Plans, orchestrating price positioning, launch activities and promotion

• Evaluate new potential market niches, close to the assigned applications

• Drive effective internal and external communication

• Collaborate with Marketing Communication department defining communication plans, launch promotions, commercial materials, marketing campaigns, events and exhibitions

• Evaluating and executing promotional initiatives with Regional Marketing

• Presenting the products portfolio to the Regional Marketing, with dedicated events, trainings or supporting customer visits

• Collaborate with other departments like product platforms, R&D, services and manufacturing to ensure a successful product deployment

Requirements

• University degree in Engineering

• Experience in REF equipment, electronics and/or thermodynamic (is a plus)

• Experience in B2B market with international exposure (is a plus)

• Strong written/oral communication, especially in communicating customer needs

• Ability to organize work by priority, define plans and monitor independently under concurrent deadlines

• Skilled at developing and exercising cross-functional influence; translating between sales and technical teams

• Availability to travel internationally (up to 20% of the time)

• Share the values of Carel Culture Code!

Other information

What we offer

• Work-life balance: remote working and flexitime

• On-boarding program and continuing training

• Company welfare: company canteen, life insurance, welfare platform, company bonus, contributions to school expenses

• Carel BoostCamp, a three-year training course for new hires under the age of 30, aimed at developing transversal skills, such as project management, cross cultural communication and problem solving

CAREL applies the Italian National Collective Labour Agreement "Metalmeccanica Industria".

The reference gross annual fixed salary (RAL) range for this position is between €40,000 and €55,000.

The overall compensation package will also include:

• Individual performance bonus (MBO);

• Company performance bonus (Premio di Risultato), linked to collective results and subject to applicable favorable tax regulations;

• Additional welfare and benefit programs provided by the company.

The actual compensation offered will be determined on gender-neutral criteria based on the candidate's qualifications, professional experience, seniority and skills. For particularly qualified candidates, compensation may be positioned outside the indicated range.

MAKE THE DIFFERENCE…ANYWAY: this position isn’t right for you? Check out our other job opportunities: https://www.carel.com/open-positions

ACT FOR THE PLANET - ACT FOR PEOPLE - ACT TO SHARE VALUE

At Carel we are actively committed to achieving our sustainability objectives, outlined in our “Driven by the Future - Sustainability in Action” plan, available for reference at: https://www.carel.com/carel-and-sustainability. Every day we take concrete actions to help combat climate change, identifying and developing products and services that increase energy efficiency and allow us to drastically reduce environmental impact.

Our organisation aims to ensure the establishment of transparent and responsible governance and to foster a fair and inclusive workplace where diversity is recognised as an essential value for the innovation we strive to bring.Carel is committed to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination. In line with these objectives and values, all applications received will be given due considerationand will be exclusively valued based on competences, experiences, motivation and values alignment.

*This job post addresses both female and male candidates (see D.Lgs. n. 198/2006 & ss.mm.ii and D.Lgs. 215-216/2003). Candidates are invited to read the privacy statement (see artt. 13 e 14 del Reg. EU 679/2016) at the following link: https://www.carel.com/documents/10191/678238/CAREL_GDPR_Information_Candidates.pdf

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