Job Description:

Market Segment Manager

Job ID:

14485

Job location(s):

Nordborg, DK

Copenhagen, DK

Hamburg, DE

Offenbach Am Main, DE

Baltimore, US

Job Description

Danfoss seeks a Market Segment Manager with strong market and customer understanding to ensure ambitious growth. As a Market Segment Manager, your overall mission will be to develop our sensing solutions business in global mobile and industrial hydraulics markets through deep market, application and product insight.

You are offered a unique job opportunity in an international environment with the chance to create, develop and positively influence our market and business results. The location of this position is flexible but primarily based at one of our Danfoss locations in: Nordborg or Copenhagen (DK), Hamburg or Offenbach (DE) or Baltimore, MD (USA). You can expect to travel approximately 20% of your time.

Job Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities include:

- Ensure deep customer insight within the segment, including application and product needs as well as a strong understanding of customer issues and buying trends

- Create and maintain the market and business analysis for sensors in the mobile and industrial hydraulics market, including internal and external analysis, hotspot and heat maps

- Develop, implement and coordinate global segment growth strategy

- Build market analysis and transfer this into a solid business plan

- Challenge and develop business models and champion the development of our sensor business in the segment

- Build and maintain relations with strategic customers and potential external partners

- Support the development and drive the execution of a segment marketing plan

Background and Skills

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in engineering or another relevant technical degree. You have a strong background in sales and/or marketing management of technical products and solid experience from mobile and industrial hydraulics markets. You are skilled in building up market analysis and transferring this into a solid business plan. While not mandatory, knowledge of sensor products is preferred, and you must demonstrate the capacity to quickly grasp the nature of our products and business models.

On a more personal level, you are innovative and service-minded, and you have a strong will to succeed. You have a natural authority and ability to act independently on your tasks. You are comfortable with undertaking ongoing projects and initiatives, and your goal-oriented personality ensures that the activities you execute are completed satisfactorily. You possess a personal drive that motivates, inspires, and influences others, and you are able to work across functions in an international environment. With your excellent communication skills and ability to communicate throughout the organisation, you are able to meet people at their level and accommodate differences and diversities. Finally, you possess strong English skills, both in writing and speech.

For further information about the position, please contact Head of Business Development & Market Segments, Janne Kaskinen at +358 407199065.

Please apply at your earliest convenience. We do not have an application deadline but accept applications as long as the job is posted. The position will be closed down once we have found the right candidate.

Danfoss - Engineering Tomorrow

At Danfoss, we are engineering solutions that allow the world to use resources in smarter ways - driving the sustainable transformation of tomorrow. No transformation has ever been started without a group of passionate, dedicated and empowered people. We believe that innovation and great results are driven by the right mix of people with diverse backgrounds, personalities, skills, and perspectives, reflecting the world in which we do business. To make sure the mix of people works, we strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are treated equally, respected, and valued for who they are. It is a strong priority within Danfoss to improve the health, working environment and safety of our employees.

Following our founder's mindset 'action speaks louder than words', we set ourselves ambitious targets to protect the environment by embarking on a plan to become CO2 neutral latest by 2030.

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Danfoss is an EO employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.

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