HPI Category Manager, Client
Chicago, Illinois
Employer: CDW
Industry: Other
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
Description
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.
The Manager, PPM manages a team that focuses on the pre-determined product categories assigned. This role drives profitability and revenue through the integration and development of programs for product and partners within the CDW portfolio. The incumbent evaluates, creates, executes, and measures opportunities around the CDW product and partner mix. The Category Manager is responsible for all areas of partner management and partner investment including COOP, VIR and financial programs. This role aligns CDW and assigned partners' marketing plans, along with owns, manages, and develops all assigned key partner relationships, and works closely with segment and sales leaders to develop customer segment focus strategies.
Key Areas of Responsibility
Education and/or Experience Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.
What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you'll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self-and your best ideas-to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving-and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
Date Posted: Sep 04, 2024
Job Category: Other
People Leader v. Individual Contributor:
Travel Percentage:
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.
The Manager, PPM manages a team that focuses on the pre-determined product categories assigned. This role drives profitability and revenue through the integration and development of programs for product and partners within the CDW portfolio. The incumbent evaluates, creates, executes, and measures opportunities around the CDW product and partner mix. The Category Manager is responsible for all areas of partner management and partner investment including COOP, VIR and financial programs. This role aligns CDW and assigned partners' marketing plans, along with owns, manages, and develops all assigned key partner relationships, and works closely with segment and sales leaders to develop customer segment focus strategies.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Provide leadership to coworkers through coaching, feedback, development goals, and performance management
- Own and maximize PCM - Partner Controllable Margin
- Establish pricing strategies, monitors competitive activity, oversees product information, and identifies customer needs
- Responsible for the creation of customer offers
- Oversee the development of marketing plans for their product portfolio
- Responsible for maximizing revenue, profit, and vendor co-op for specific product category(s) through planning and marketing
- Manage and interface with partners to develop or enhance the marketing of product(s) or product line(s)
- Lead and direct merchandising activities
- Assess and understand competitive landscape and adjust direction as needed
- Manage SKUs per product categories
- Identify emerging technologies and industry trends within the category and adjust the plan accordingly
- Act as an escalation point and liaison between the vendor and CDW
- Engage with Purchasing to help forecast sales, assist with promotional buy in opportunities with partners and communicate shifts in market pricing to help with buying decisions
- Approve content for respective manufacturer ads
- Create and maintain an annual business plan
- Lead efforts to increase customer and account manager penetration for their category(s)
- Up to 20% travel
Education and/or Experience Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Marketing, or related field
- 5 years of product management, marketing, supply chain, sales or finance experience
- Prior experience coaching or mentoring others
Required Qualifications
- Proven track record in product management/marketing a product line(s).
- Strong cross-functional team skills
- Strong strategic and executional leader
- Demonstrated financial and analytical skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels
- History of building and maintaining relationships
- Strong conflict resolution skills with the ability to be persuasive
- The ability to multitask effectively and see projects through from inception to completion
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
- Demonstrated ability to master a product portfolio
Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.
What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you'll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self-and your best ideas-to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving-and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
Date Posted: Sep 04, 2024
Job Category: Other
People Leader v. Individual Contributor:
Travel Percentage:
Created: 2024-09-05
Reference: R24_00002006
Country: United States
State: Illinois
City: Chicago
ZIP: 60018
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