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Are you an entry level candidate looking to combine your engineering expertise and strong customer-facing skills?Join a values-based, ESOP (employee-owned) company where YOU are a top priority!Seeking local candidates to work from our St. Paul, MN office.Reell Precision Manufacturing is a leading provider of innovative position and motion control solutions, delivering high-quality precision products that optimize performance and efficiency throughout a diverse global market.The company was named "Reell" (ray-El'); a German word meaning honesttrustworthy and good to reflect these foundational values. After 50+ years in business, we continue to strive to fulfill the promise of these words in our products, services and our relationships with customers, shareholders, co-workers, suppliers and the community.We are seeking a strategic and resilient Associate Global Product Manager who will be responsible for leading the new product introduction process from an idea through product launch, collaborating closely with the sales and engineering teams. The ideal candidate will exemplify Reell's values, possess a technical engineering background with automotive industry experience and a strong entrepreneurial mindset with a desire to take ownership of their assigned market and grow the business.Key Responsibilities:Market, Customer and Business Planning: Assist the Global Product Line Manager in understanding and researching global market dynamics, including competition, trends, new technologies, and pricing in order to successfully grow revenue with the product line. Develops business cases for new products and technologies and presents them to senior leadership. Authors new product technical requirements needed for additional growth and business plans/CRDs.Product Portfolio Roadmap: Deeply understands current and future customer needs by working directly with customers, the broader sales team and engineering. Regularly conduct Voice of Customer (VOC) to author voice of the customer documents and create, adjust, add to the product portfolio roadmaps which documents new product development plans that enhance and expand our global catalog offering that will facilitate growth.Product Promotion: Ensure product lines are promoted to the highest extent possible in the right promotion channels. Regularly visits customers, travels for training, tradeshows, indirect rep engagements and training, and customer negotiations.Sales Enablement: Enable sales team to win business: Proactively present, train, and promote our product portfolio to enable the sales team and our indirect reps to understand the value, positioning, applications, and capabilities of our products and of our design and engineering services. Set goals for the sales teams, hold the sales team accountable for results and enable the sales team to achieve the highest outcomes.Product Pricing & Forecast: At the Global Product Line Manager's request and under his or her direction perform pricing and competitive analysis by customer channel and recommend strategies to improve global market position, improve quality or reduce costs. Produces, maintains and updates forecast on a regular basis. Works across functional boundaries to help ensure that product is produced, and profit targets are met. Works closely with sales and marketing to increase profitable revenue.Sales & Marketing: Develops and maintains product database with product specifications, and customer literature (electronic and print-on-demand) for both direct sales and indirect sales. Using Voice of Customer (VOC) process, identifies global market needs for the product(s) and for ensuring that product designs are matched to demand. Ability to regularly make direct sales calls (identification of targets, VOC, identifying customer requirements, qualification process, quoting, and follow-up).Required Qualifications:Bachelor's degree or equivalentMinimum of 2 years of experience with technical salesExperience with technical sales & product portfolio developmentMust be proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPointAbility to travel up to 25% (domestic and international)Preferred Qualifications:CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software experienceIndustry and technical knowledgeBroad market and customer knowledgeReell Precision Manufacturing offers competitive compensation and benefits. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k), Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), short and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, community involvement opportunities, and an educational program.