Commercial Notebook Product Planner - Education

Commercial Notebook Product Planner - Education

Description -

    
 

We’re looking for a strategic and hands-on Product lead for HP Education Notebooks, with responsibility for capturing customer insights, championing our product experience, and defining a critical line of our portfolio of notebooks.

As a Commercial Notebook Product Planner you will be responsible for driving growth in our business by understanding key customer trends and requirements and creating the right product definition to meet those requirements.  The role will require managing deliverables through the product planning lifecycle - from concept planning through product planning definition closure, while driving a smooth transition to product launch and end-of-life execution and transition.

Role Responsibilities:

• Gathering and understanding key customer insights focused on the Chrome, Windows Education and Chrome Enterprise markets.

• Performing analysis of technology and market trends while developing a market growth opportunity analysis within the industry

• Drive ideation sessions within the group to generate ideas of how to solve customer problems within the Commercial Notebook and education segment

• Collaborating with other product managers across different businesses to create complete product solutions

• Creating and managing effective content and processes for product positioning and messaging for regional partners, sales force and channel partners

• Working in partnership with downstream NPI & Sustaining Product Management teams to ensure we have a strong story and strategy for go-to-market and external launch messaging and positioning

• Consistently perform competitive analysis against top industry players to ensure our lineup is differentiated and competitive

• Support growing the business plan for the notebook team and manage products/solutions to meet revenue and profitability goals in line with team targets

• Developing marketing process enhancements to ensure that the overall notebook marketing process can grow and scale with the business

• Preparing key executive and external product strategy presentations

Desired Qualifications and Experience:

• Total 10+ years of working experience with 2-3 years product marketing experience

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing or a related field with preference for an MBA

• Thorough understanding and mastery of marketing principles and the product development process

• Previous experience in high-tech, personal computers, or Education Technology is a plus

• Strong Ability to empathize with customers and understand their key pain points and needs from pre-purchase to post-deployment

• Proven experience in successfully managing high-volume product categories

• Ability to partner with engineering, design, supply chain, finance, category, and sales teams to align on a clear product definition.

• Aptitude for using an analytical approach to business evaluation and problem-solving, with the understanding of how to effectively communicate proposals, results and implications to management teams and external partners

• Ability to evaluate market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscapes

• Ability to translate technical capabilities, features, and specifications into compelling customer stories and value propositions

• Familiarity with emerging tech trends, the ability to predict their business impact, and how to drive the most relevant opportunities into the next generation of products

• Understanding of cost structures, ROI analysis, and business case assessments

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and expertise in communicating with technical and non-technical audiences

The base pay range for this role is $78,850 to $121,450 annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to US candidates only).  Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Long term/short term disability insurance

• Employee assistance program

• Flexible spending account

• Life insurance

• Generous time off policies, including; 

  • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure

  • 11 paid holidays

  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Job -

Marketing

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -

25%

Relocation -

Not Specified

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) - 

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