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.