Product Manager Digital Imaging

Sony Corporation; Hoofddorp; On-site; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer electronics company located in Hoofddorp is seeking a Product Manager to lead marketing strategies for digital imaging products in the Benelux market. The successful candidate will analyze market performance, collaborate with teams to optimize product ranges, and forecast sales. A strong background in consumer electronics, excellent analytical skills, and fluency in Dutch and English are essential. Join us to shape the future of innovative technology and enhance your career in an inclusive environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Health and wellbeing services

Learning and personal development programs

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Strong focus on data and insights for product management.
• Experience in consumer electronics, retail, or FMCG.
• Ambitious, entrepreneurial, and highly professional.

Responsibilities

• Analyze market, competitors, and performance for product group.
• Build annual marketing plans for product strategy.
• Collaborate with marketing to optimize product range.
• Forecast monthly sell-in, sell-out, and channel inventory.

Skills

Commercially minded

Analytical skills

Team player

Sales background

Fluent in Dutch

Fluent in English

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in marketing/business

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

**Product Manager Digital Imaging****Location:****Hoofddorp**If you have strong commercial and analytical skills you can play a part in crafting the future of our Digital Imaging business, working in a team at the cutting edge of technology in Consumer Electronics. We have a fantastic opportunity for a Product Manager to drive the marketing strategy of Digital photography and Video cameras for the Benelux markets.**The top line**We’ll give you a product group to lead commercially – improving sales, profit, brand awareness and purchase consideration in your territory. Guided by our Pan-European strategy, you’ll rigorously analyze the group of products you lead all aspects of to set annual budgets and forecasts. From there, you’ll be a motivating partner to the Channel Marketing and Customer Marketing Teams tasked with executing your plans, using your data-driven insights to adapt strategies for the local market.**You will:*** Analyze the market, competitors, consumers and sales performance for your product group* Build annual marketing plans that best interpret and implement our Pan-European Product Marketing and Pricing strategies for your territory* Set yearly budgets and forecasts for the Channel Marketing and Customer Marketing Teams* Collaborate with marketing colleagues to compose and optimize product range* Lead the introduction of new products within your territory (several launches per year)* Carry out rigorous monthly reporting on your product group’s performance* Forecast monthly sell-in, sell-out and channel inventory* Guide, inform and motivate our sales team**Who you are:*** Bachelor’s or master’s degree, preferably in marketing/business* An experienced product/business/commercial manager with a strong focus on data and insights* Experience in a Product/Category Manager or Business Planner role in the field of consumer electronics, retail or FMCG* Commercially minded, probably with a sales background* A motivating personality and natural team player* Ambitious, entrepreneurial and highly professional* Strong passion or past experience in photography/videography is an advantage* Proficient working with Excel and PowerPoint (Windows/Microsoft Office 365)* Fluent in written and spoken Dutch and EnglishIf you want to do something extraordinary in your career, this is the place to be. You’ll get to build on your experience in a high-performance sales and marketing operation with a proven record of winning in an incredibly competitive market. Meanwhile your career will be enhanced by the unique Sony working ethos. We don’t just create technology, services and content. We enliven senses, capture moments and create new experiences daily. We have been at the forefront of consumer tech for decades, and we stay ahead by inspiring and fulfilling curiosity. This is the exciting world you could be part of.**Your new office****Hoofddorp**Our office is located close to Schiphol Airport and Hoofddorp station in Park20|20. It’s a 5 min walk from the train station, it has parking space with charging facilities underneath as well as a bike shed. Our office is one floor, equipped with all modern workplace necessities. A PS5, Ping pong table and dartboard are available for your moments of connecting and fun and in our coffee corner, alternatively it’s possible to take a walk in the nearby park.**Life at Sony**We ensure **competitive salaries**and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy **work-life balance** supported by hybrid and **flexible** working policies. We are a positive **community** who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our **recognition** platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of **wellbeing**. We **listen** to our people through conversations and surveys, **respect** their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for **volunteering days** so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of **learning & personal development** programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive **mobility** team to support you if you take that leap!**Bring your uniqueness to Sony**We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.**We are Sony Europe**Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.**Equal Opportunity**Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.**Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe**Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at [e-mail] or by mail to: Sony Europe B.V, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.#LI-MR1We drive Sony’s leading Entertainment, Technology & Services business for consumer and professional markets, as well as Imaging & Sensing Solutions business, across Europe.Throughout all our fields including AI, biotech, or software solutions, from R&D and engineering, design, to sales, marketing, distribution and customer service, we work to deliver Sony's purpose to fill the world with emotion through the power of creativity and technology.