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.