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RssExperience marketing and product management professional with over 15 years of experience with globally recognized organizations.

Recently lost my marketing position due to the economy crisis. Would like to find a similar product marketing or product management position which I had at both Omron Electronics and Molex.

Marketing

Schaumburg, IL

About Me

Industry:

Marketing & Advertising

Occupation:

Marketing

Ideal Companies:

Fortune 500, Green Technology Firms
 

Education level:

Bachelor

Will Relocate:

No

Location:

Schaumburg, IL

Work Experiences

8/2007 - 4/2009

Omron Electronics, LLC

Manager

  • Focus: Product marketing management of Proximity, Photoelectric and Fiber Optic sensors for the North American industrial automation market. Responsible for annual revenue of $20M in 2008-2009 fiscal. Annual business plan challenge: Promote new and existing products from parent company located in Japan. Develop local private branding relationships to fill product line voids in order to more effectively compete with top competitors. Results: Maintained flat revenue in down economy by implementing focused, hand’s on product training for distribution sales personnel (Omron’s primary channel to market); Developed private branding relationship with a strategic competitor to add missing sensor to product portfolio; Authored creative, low cost product advertisements to promote products through internet. Developed improved product display for industry tradeshows.

11/1999 - 8/2007

Molex, Inc.

Manager

  • Focus: Product marketing management of electric and electronic connectors. Responsible for annual revenue of $25M in 2006. Annual business plan challenge: Develop and promote new products, increase revenue of existing products and maintain high profitability. Results: Drove revenue increase of product family from $17M to $25M over last six years in a highly competitive market through promotion of existing products and introduction of new products; $2M of incremental annual increase total due to new product development; $100K in production cost savings in 2006 by automating the assembly of key product line; Provided industry expertise for products by authoring trade journal articles in both 2005 and 2006; Developed promotional product overviews for company website; Developed a website configurator for custom product selection; Created and distributed multiple variations of product sample kits based on industry or end use application to support global sales force.

4/1994 - 11/1999

ITT Industries

Individual Contributor

  • Focus: Product marketing of pumps, valves, controls, timers and after-market products for residential HVAC market. Responsible for annual product revenue of $22M sales in 1999. Annual business plan challenge: Maintain existing product sales and margins in mature HVAC market, reduce costs through total quality management (TQM) process, develop and promote new products. Results: Averaged 10% annual growth and maintained 50% average margin for existing products; Achieved $300K in cost reductions during 1997 as leader of TQM team; Released 8 new products over 5 years period with incremental sales value of $2M.

Education

1989

Bachelor Degree

Graceland University

  • Business Administration

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