Our Client (Global Home Appliance Manufacturer) based in Weybridge is looking for a Korean Speaking Assistant Product Manager - Home Appliance (team is responsible for the sales and distribution of  products such as refrigerators and washing machines into the UK market). 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, and communicate with the marketing team, including checking budget of marketing support. You will be responsible for managing sales programmes, which includes organizing promotion details, monthly sales programmes report, and monitoring budget balance and current sales programme activities. Any other ad-hoc duties or responsibilities as requested by the line manager.

Key Responsibilities :

• Share the product and market information with PM team, Sales team and other internal stakeholders, and provide UK business update to HQ
• Understand and forecast on future business budget needs and 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
• Management of Home appliance Sales Programmes in SPMS
• Organise the promotion detail and period management
• Generate the monthly sales programmes report
• Organise the sales promotion monthly calendar
• Monitor the balance and current sales programme activity

• 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 :

• Advanced in Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of databases and queries
• Previous experience in a similar role within a related business environment – ideally consumer electronics, is preferable.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Due to daily communication with HQ, the candidate would have to be fluent in verbal and written communication in English and Korean. This will include translating business information from HQ in English in order to share with the internal Sales & Marketing team
• Pro-active and confident liaising with both colleagues internally and external stakeholders
• Highly organised with strong administration background
• 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
• Good judgement, able to make practical and realistic decisions within scope of responsibility
• Proven commercial acumen and ability to achieve commercial objectives

Benefits :

25 Days’ Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays)

Staff Discount

9% Employer Contribution to Pension

Subsidised Cafeteria