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Job Description

Job Title: Senior Product Marketing Manager	Department: Business Development
Reports To: MPS MK MD	Location: MPS Milton Keynes
Date: May 2021	Revision Date:

Summary

Murata Power Solutions is the World’s No.1 manufacturer of DC-DC converters and a leading producer of AC/DC power supplies and wound magnetic products. Our customer is mainly focused on the computing, communications, industrial and medical markets. We design and manufacture the industry’s broadest offering of standard DC-DC products and are a market-leading designer of custom solutions. The site in Milton Keynes has a long and successful history of design and development of low power DC-DC converters and wound magnetics products.

Main Function of the Job

The general objective of this role is to maximise and profitability grow the MPS MK Ltd (NCL) product revenues through support and development of the sales channels in Europe by promoting existing and new products. The role will also provide support and guidance on the development of new products by working closely with the NPI team and customers.

The Strategic Marketing Manager will work closely with the MPS Milton Keynes Ltd (NCL) Managing Director.

Job Specification

· Work closely with product managers and Engineering to help develop the NCL Product Roadmap

· Work closely with product managers and Engineering to help Coordinate roadmap activities within Murata Group for low power DC-DC

· Work closely with key customers, engineering teams, and across the Murata group to identify and define new product opportunities, including sizing of market, target customers, new product definition, and value proposition, competitive positioning, pricing, resource requirements and go-to-market strategy.

· Macro level market analysis – ability to place NCL product roadmap in context of broader market and competitive environment.

· Work with Murata Sales Channels for new product introduction – from Beta testing with select customers through to mass market adoption.

· Provide market intelligence to the Product Managers to help the development and maintenance of product datasheets and pricelists.

· Work with Application Engineering to define supporting collateral materials such as evaluation boards and applications notes.

· Work with outside sales to set sales targets, define and monitor key customers/business engagements.

· Support outside sales on regular basis with visits to key customers.  Approximately 25% of time should be customer facing.

· Requires travel, working with customers and Murata teams in the UK and Europe.

Personal Attributes

To effectively perform the duties of Strategic Marketing Manager, individuals must be able to demonstrate a number of competencies that are essential to the position, which include:

Essential

· BSEE Engineering with emphasis on power conversion.

· Minimum of 5 years’ experience in power conversion industry in a marketing or field applications engineering role.

· Minimum of 10 years industrial electronics experience

· Have a sound theoretical understanding of Power electronics.

· Be willing to travel as required.

· Have knowledge of manufacturing methods used in the electronics industry.

· Have experience of working with defined project budgets.

· Have the ability to multi-task and cope with a degree of pressure in a professional business environment.

· Ability to work accurately to defined timescales.

· Able to work in a team effectively while being self-motivated.

· Be a proactive and good communicator to drive projects to timely completion.

· Excellent presentation skills

· Highly competent in Excel, PowerPoint.

· Ideal candidate will be able to ‘hit the ground running’ – demonstrating good understanding of DC-DC power industry, competitive landscape, technology trends, and key customers. 

· Clean driving license

Desirable

· Have a sound understanding of the High service providers and broad line distributor’s business models.

· Previous Power Electronics design experience.

Limitations upon Authority

The job holder has no personal authorisation rights except as specifically agreed with the managing director.

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This job description is a guide to work that you will initially be required to undertake. It may be changed from time to time to meet changing business circumstances.