Product Specialist

Our client is a global manufacturer of lifting and material processing products and services.
We are searching for a:
**PRODUCT SPECIALIST.
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This position will be pre-sales support to the distribution network and will be an interface between the internal and external needs of the company.
**Key Responsibilities:
- Support the development of new products
- Analyze and document the product development process
- Improve the development of existing products
- Management of the launch of new products
- Monitor and collect market feedback, analyze and identify useful trends to fuel the innovation process
- Build and maintain customer relationships
- Define, together with Engineering, the detailed specifications of the product during the conception phase in line with the needs of the market
- Ensure adequate training of the sales organization by implementing a training and coaching program and developing benchmark analyzes with competing products.
- Support to the sales area in defining the prices of the product lines.
- Ensure assistance in developing business plans
- Identify new market opportunities.
**Requirements & Skills**:
- Technical Degree
- Experience within a role of similar size and scope
- Strong customer service skills
- Experience in manufacturing environment preferred
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Highly developed attention to detail
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to work well in a team environment
- Fluent knowledge of the English language
- Excellent familiarity with IT tools and passion for digital.
Site of Work: Bologna