Job Title: Product Marketing Manager - Mining Monitoring and Tunneling
Location: Munich-Germany or Westminster CO
Department: Field Systems - Geospatial
Job Summary:
As a Product Marketing Manager youll play a pivotal role in defining the vision and strategy for Trimbles monitoring tunneling and mining businesses in the Field Systems sector. You will collaborate closely with product managers providing crucial feedback on market intelligence customer needs and pricing. Your insights will drive effective go-to-market plans empowering sales and marketing communications teams. As a key liaison across different departments youll work with product managers sales customer success operations distributors and global marketing communications.
In this role you will be responsible for orchestrating product success as measured by revenue growth market position and profitability. You will work closely with product development internal sales channel partners and end-users to ensure internal prioritization alignment and effective advocacy. Ultimate success in the position will be determined by the individuals ability to intimately understand the product environment articulate objectives that lead to success and partner with the wider Trimble community. This role provides international travel opportunities and coordination of events with local Trimble distribution partners and customer and distribution partner site visits.
High-Performance Differentiators:
Develop specialized depth and breadth of knowledge in their domain.
Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products processes or services.
Defining and driving best practices across the organization.
Ability to effectively present your product strategy to executive levels.
Impacts product innovation and customer success utilizing Trimble solutions.
Many tasks will require collaboration and cooperation with various groups that are often not under your direct control. You must be able to represent the marketing teams interest and justify the requests with these groups to achieve your desired result.
What You Will Do
Ensures support for the product is in place at the time of release and monitors the support to ensure it remains consistent with the outlined objectives.
Create strategic partnerships and alignment to open new market segments and opportunities to support key initiatives.
Oversee technical management of the portfolio including quality control testing and performance analysis of new and existing technologies and defining technology requirements for customer projects and product development.
Conduct customer interviews and gain hands-on experience to ensure market suitability collate feedback for engineering teams and manage relationships with Trimble distributors customers and internal teams.
Manage products throughout the product lifecycle including definition execution release and ongoing management and support.
Identify gaps in the product portfolio and develop business plans to address them monitor product performance and manage development priorities with engineering teams.
Generate marketing and product release materials schedule sales training and dealer webinars and work with dealers and end-users on training support beta testing and market research.
Support distributors in the preparation of quotations including providing quotation templates and reviewing quotations before submitting them to end customers.
Prepare market requirements and feature design documentation based on voice of customer research and market feedback.
Organize and participate in industry events and trade shows and travel as needed to Trimble offices distributors and customers worldwide.
Bachelors degree in a STEM field of study Geotechnical Engineering Mining Engineering Surveying Engineering or equivalent experience plus a minimum of 3 years of direct experience in the minimum industry.
Domain expertise in surveying monitoring and mining operations is preferred.
Knowledge of additional languages is a plus.
Able to take general guidance and apply it to other situations working with minimal direction.
Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority through consensus building networking and effective presentation of sound business reasoning.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
Ability to communicate details with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Effective global collaboration through the use of synchronous and asynchronous communication methods and working across multiple time zones.
Proven track record of creative problem-solving with strong organizational skills.
Effective time management and ability to work in a dynamic environment while responding to changing priorities.
Must represent the Monitoring Mining and Tunneling team in a large organization ensuring project success through collaboration and gaining buy-in from other Trimble groups not under direct control.
Must demonstrate and project a high level of energy and enthusiasm.
Accept a high level of personal responsibility for product success in terms of customer satisfaction from functionality workflows and go-to-market strategy.
Must demonstrate the willingness to be a change agent and challenge conventional wisdom if the conventional wisdom stands in the way of success.
Experience with tools such as JIRA DOMO and Google Suite (Docs Sheets Slides) is preferred.
About Your Location
This role is hiring primarily as an in office role in the Trimble Westminster or Munich office.
About Trimble Geospatial
Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning modeling and data analytics Trimble enables essential industries including construction geospatial and transportation. Whether its helping customers build and maintain infrastructure design and construct buildings optimize global supply chains or map the world Trimble is at the forefront driving productivity and progress.
Trimbles Inclusiveness Commitment
We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity Equity and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.
We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen heard and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong no matter who they are or where they are coming from.
Information to Review
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Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation depending on circumstances not related to an applicants sex or other status protected by local state or federal law.
Hiring Range
62000.0082100.00Pay Rate Type
SalaryBonus Eligible
YesCommission Eligible
No
Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical Dental Vision Life Disability Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.
How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the Apply Now button located in this posting.
Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.
At Trimble we are committed to fostering a diverse inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core valuesBelong Innovate and Growwe embrace and celebrate differences knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race color gender identity sexual orientation religion disability veteran status or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more please see Trimbles Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at under Corporate Governance.
Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening asking questions and taking intentional actions we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.
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