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Job Field: Office Jobs
Location: WALLA WALLA, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time

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               <td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;"><b>About Key Technology, Inc</b><BR>Headquartered in beautiful Walla Walla, WA, Key Technology has been developing leading innovative products and services for customers around the world for over 60 years.  We are a well-established domestic and foreign B2B (Business to Business) manufacturing company, that designs and manufactures process automation systems in the food processing, industrial and pharmaceutical markets worldwide. <BR><BR>We are currently seeking qualified Product Marketing Managers to join our innovative Marketing Team. Come be a part of a challenging, yet rewarding environment of creative and talented professionals. We provide competitive compensation, incentive plans and benefit packages. Relocation assistance is also available. <BR><BR>To learn more about where we live, what we do and how you can be a part of it, visit us at: www.key.net or www.wallawalla.org <BR><BR><b>Functions of a Product Marketing Manager</b><BR>This position will report directly to the Director of Marketing and will be responsible for supporting one or more of Key’s product lines. Manages assigned product(s) from conceptual stage through product life cycle to optimize corporate objectives by performing the following duties:<BR>• Develops and owns product roadmap(s) including management of value creation, product strategy, research and development requirements, sales and operations strategies.<BR>• Conducts marketing research and analysis for products, markets, and regions. <BR>• Creates Opportunity Analysis and Marketing Requirements Documents for new products.  <BR>• Collaborates with a wide variety of functional areas such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, and operations to develop and provide product definitions responsive to customer needs and market opportunities.<BR>• Guides product line maintenance for issues including obsolescence, improvement and upgrades, cost reduction, life cycle management, and pricing.<BR>• Coordinates and develops marketing, sales, engineering, and financial plans for product line, including cost and factory margin tracking and analyses.<BR>• Reviews progress continually through product life cycle to ensure attainment of objectives.<BR>• Maintains communications and contacts to collect and analyze technical, financial, marketing, schedule, and sales information for product line.<BR>• Tracks competitive intelligence and communicates as appropriate to the organization.<BR>• Manages projects for a product line.<BR>• Creates and leads training for personnel on new products/markets.<BR>• Develops sales tools and conducts training.<BR><BR><b>Personal Characteristics </b><BR>• Effective problem solver with strong project management skills<BR>• Effective negotiator<BR>• Strong work ethic<BR>• Excellent written and verbal communication skills<BR>• Flexible and adaptive <BR>• Capable of working well under pressure<BR>• Capable of managing multiple and challenging assignments concurrently and independently<BR>• High energy and self-motivated<BR>• Ethical, honest and compassionate <BR><BR><b>Professional Characteristics </b><BR>• Bachelor’s degree (B. A. or B. S.)or higher from four-year college or university in a technical or engineering field.  <BR>• Have a minimum of five years plus of progressively challenging marketing and engineering experience preferably dealing with international B2B capital equipment.   Experience with optical equipment a plus!<BR>• Strong inbound marketing experience related to segmentation, business planning, product road mapping, positioning.<BR>• Proven track record of experience related to determining market needs, cost, technical resources, building a business case and strategically aligning them to company vision and goals. <BR>• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.<BR><BR><b>Disqualifiers</b><BR>No B2B Marketing experience<BR>No product planning, product marketing (i.e. roadmaps, segmentation, market analysis etc) experience</font></td>
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KEY REQUIREMENTS:

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3 Months