Summary:
The Regional Digital Lead will be responsible for ensuring a high customer impact of Putzmeister's digital offerings in the region. This role requires a proactive, results-driven individual who can work well with cross-functional teams and build strong customer relationships.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build close relationships with customers to identify pain points and derive ideas for new digital offerings.
- Work closely with the central digital team to adapt the product roadmap to ensure customer fit of our digital offerings in your region.
- Coordinate project-based customer integration for development activities of Putzmeister Products as interviews and field tests
- Implement and evaluate prototypes and MVPs with lead customers in your region.
- Lead the introduction and rollout of digital offerings for our customers in your region.
- Gather customer feedback from new product in the field and provide input for future improvements and new product requirements from the market.
- Carry out marketing and training activities to ensure awareness and onboarding of customers.
- Provide continuous feedback to the central digital team on improving digital offerings to strengthen customer impact further.
- Periodic competition review (literature and/or live visits) for comparisons to our products.
- Periodic job site visits and show attendance will be required for information gathering purposes.
- Periodic competition review (literature and/or live visits) for comparisons to our products.
- Support the introduction of new products at PMA, monitoring and coordinating with other functional groups (such as a product manager) after engineering release.
- Perform additional duties as assigned or required.
Qualifications:
- Experience working with customers, dealers, suppliers, and other department employees.
- Preferably several years of professional experience in digital products and services.
- As an entrepreneurial type, you can generate enthusiasm for your ideas and implement them in a targeted manner.
- Ability to persuade as a team member in an intercultural collaboration.
- Organizational and priority scheduling skills.
- Detail-oriented and self-motivated.
- B2B (Business to Business) product management experience a plus.
Education/Certification/Training:
- A degree in business administration, business informatics, industrial engineering, or a comparable field.
- SAP or MAPICS training and/or experience a plus.
- Preferably several years of professional experience in digital products and services.
- Mandatory safety training (see “Total Compliance Management” program).
- On-the-job training.
Physical Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, stoop, bend, and use hands to finger, handle or touch; frequently required to push and pull.
- Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 15 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, peripheral, and the ability to focus.
Work environment:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is in a typical office environment; occasionally exposed to noise, dust, and chemicals.
- Safety glasses/goggles must be worn at all times while in designated areas of shop.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The above information includes the general details necessary to describe the principal duties of the job identified and shall not be interpreted as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the job.
Benefits we offer:
- Comprehensive benefits (medical, vision, and dental insurance)
- Company paid Hospital Indemnity/Accident Insurance
- HSA – incentives for company contributions
- FSA Plans
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Company paid Short term/Long term Disability
- Paternity Leave
- 401K plan with company match
- Profit sharing
- Company events
- Education Reimbursement
- Boot Reimbursement
- Uniform Program
- Employee discount program