LG Electronics UK
Assistant Product Manager
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Life’s Good at LG!
At LG, we deliver products and services that make lives better, easier and happier through increased functionality and fun. Put simply, we offer the latest innovations to make “Life Good” – from home appliances, consumer electronics and mobile communications to business innovations in digital signage, air conditioning and LED lighting. As a global leader, we strive for greatness in product leadership, market leadership and people leadership to realize our growth strategies.
We strongly believe that our people’s competitive spirit, proactive leadership, and expertise helps drive the company forward. As such, LG is the right place for you if:
- You are a smart cookie. You like to dig into the data and find creative solutions.
- You are motivated and driven. You thrive on a challenge and want to be No. 1.
- You are a people person. You like helping people out and you want to understand where they’re coming from.
- You’re honest and you will speak up (politely, of course!), but you do it because you care and because it’s the right thing to do.
The Opportunity
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team as an Assistant Product Manager.
As an Assistant Product Manager you will be tasked to:
- Understand and forecast on future business budget needs
- Analyse findings by conducting cost & benefit analyses
- Create suggestions & check the reasonability of payment
- Communicate with the marketing team, including checking budget of marketing support
You will be responsible for managing sales programmes, which includes:
- Organising the promotion details
- Monthly sales programmes report
- Monitoring the balance and current sales programme activities
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Your Role & Responsibilities
Sales Programme / Marketing Activities Funding Monitoring
- Share the product and market information with HQ, Sales team and other internal stakeholders, and provide UK business update to HQ
- Understand and forecast on future business budget needs
- Analyse findings by conducting cost & benefit analyses
- Create recommendations based on sound assessment of opportunities and risks and communicate them to management and stakeholders
- Check the reasonability of payment (evidence, agreement, stock date, sales out data, price, etc.)
- Regularly communicate with marketing team and check budget of marketing support
- Display allowance, A&P, rebate, SOA, price protection claim
- HQ strategic fund management
- Other Sales & Marketing activities support
Regular Activities
- Daily: SPMS management (include charge back in sales and market activities), monitoring of daily sales progress
- Weekly: sales programme updated report, monitor & report weekly delivery plan
- Monthly: sales deduction report, charge back report, promotion calendar, month-end closing (issues related to P&L)
- Quarterly: marketing expense report, actual activities report
- Yearly: year report for sales programme, MKT activities, individual report etc.
Skills, Education & Experience
- Fluent in English and Korean due to daily communication with HQ
- Previous experience in a similar role within a related business environment – consumer electronics or B2B industry, is preferred
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Pro-active and confident liaising with both colleagues internally and externally
- Highly organised with strong administration background
- Proficient in Microsoft Office including PowerPoint and Excel; knowledge of databases and queries
- Energetic self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision
- Highly focused and capable of sustaining a fast pace in a dynamic environment
- Able to constructively challenge and improve existing practice
- Completer finisher, able to be resilient to drive issues through to a successful customer-focused solution
- Good judgement, able to make practical and realistic decisions within scope of responsibility
- Proven commercial acumen and ability to achieve commercial objectives
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Your Benefits
- 9% Employer Contribution into your Pension
- Life Assurance
- Private Healthcare (including optical & dental) for you and your family
- 25 Days’ Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays)
- Staff Discount
- Subsidised Cafeteria
Our Equal Opportunities Statement
LG Electronics U.K. Ltd is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitable persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
Right to Work
Please note that any job offer made will be conditional on the individual holding a legal right to work in the United Kingdom by the time employment commences.
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