Regional Marketing Manager - South Europe

Role Overview
·         Regional Market Expert: Owns regional expertise on customers, applications, competitors, and market trends for Vishay’s capacitor portfolio in South Europe.
·         Regional Alignment Lead: Leads divisional capacitor strategies into regionally executable Go-To-Market actions.
·         Strategic Customer Interface: Acts as the technical-commercial representative of the capacitor divisions at key customers.
·         New Business & Demand Driver: Identifies and structures new growth opportunities based on market and application insight.

Market & Customer Expertise
·         Maintain deep understanding of customer applications, design requirements, and usage trends for capacitor technologies.
·         Identify technology shifts and emerging demand and provide structured intelligence feedback to Divisions.

Lead Divisional Strategy into Regional Go-To-Markets
·         Understand divisional roadmaps and strategic priorities and translate them into regional focus applications and target accounts.
·         Build regional customer target plans and align Sales execution with divisional objectives.

Customer Interface & Strategic Positioning
·         Conduct frequent customer engagements, including direct interaction with customer engineering teams.
·         Support strategic opportunity positioning and design-in activities.
·         Deliver competitive counter-strategies and differentiation messaging.

New Business & Demand Creation
·         Identify new business opportunities.
·         Support demand creation initiatives.

Product Requirements & Voice of Customer
·         Propose and justify new product requirements to the divisions to support roadmap discussions.
·         Translate customer and application needs into structured technical inputs for Divisions.

Sales Guidance & Cross-Functional Alignment
·         Align with Sales and FAEs on opportunity prioritization
·         Ensure communication between internal and external stakeholders
·         Align engineering and commercial interfaces across the organization
·         Support CRM transparency and opportunity tracking

Strategic Commercial Support
·         Support contract negotiations as required
·         Provide strategic pricing-positioning input

Requirements
·         Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or comparable technical discipline. Equivalent professional experience can also be considered
·         3 years + of experience in the electronics industry; passive component experience preferred but not mandatory
·         Experience working directly with customer engineering teams
·         Experience working with distributors is a strong plus
·         Proactive, structured, and independent working style
·         Strong communication skills and business acumen
·         Strong presentation skills
·         Comfortable with MS Office and Sales Force
·         Willingness to travel mainly within South Europe
·         Fluent English is mandatory with good speaking and writing skills. Fluency in at least one of the regional languages (French, Spanish or Italian) is required.