Key Responsibilities
- Perform business management for the product including revenue and gross margin forecasting.
- Keep the management informed of any relevant information to operations.
- Act as a leader for the technology within the company.
- Development of a financial and business plan, including product pricing and approval of non-standard pricing requests.
- Support the sales team to make sure that opportunities are turned into orders.
- Make sure that the sales team is trained on the products.
- Negotiate business terms with the technology suppliers.
- Generates sales reports and analysis for his line of business.
- Develop supplier relationship and update portfolio.
Market Input
- Analyze the market and understand customer demands.
- Package solutions based on verticals.
- Benchmark competitive products.
- Study and analyze the competition (SWOT, etc.).
Market Output
- Uncover leads and deliver opportunities to the AMs.
- Manage the product roadmap.
- Promote the line of business through all channels: Customer visits, Events, Phone calls, email, web.
- Manage the marketing budget.
Skills & Experience
- B.S. in Computer or Communications Engineering
- Minimum 2-3 years in selling Data Center Products
- Fluent in Arabic & English
- Ability to speak at conferences
- Excellent written, oral, and presentation communications skills
- Very flexible working time schedule and ability to work across multiple time zones
- High level of certification
- Product Knowledge: Cisco UCS, Cisco MDS, Storage, Cisco Nexus, EMC, VDI, VMware.
- A product manager researches, selects, develops, and places a company's products.
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