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.