EU Category Marketing Head for Lens & Accessories in Weybridge

We are seeking an EU Category Head for Camera Lenses and Accessories, joining our Pan-European Product Marketing team. You should have a deep understanding of cameras and lenses, and how to drive business using our leading market position to ensure growth across your categories. Once established within the company, your unique perspective and creative expertise will help find new angles to improve sales, profit, and growth. You should have experience working with internal commercial teams, forecasting, presenting and justifying analysis and proposals to leadership, and working with country teams to drive alignment and agendas.

You Will

• Maximize Sales, Profit, and attachment ratio with camera body
• Define product line-up strategy for Europe and manage product lifecycle from Launch to EOL
• Define and implement Marketing strategy at European level
• Define and implement Channel strategy at European level
• In-depth market knowledge to identify opportunities and risks
• Implement sell-out driven operation to minimize inventory risk

You Will Bring

• Experience in consumer and professional electronics or fast-paced industry
• Knowledge of the Digital Imaging industry is a strong advantage
• Experience in analysis-driven product/marketing/commercial positioning
• Experience to manage, deal and influence within an international environment
• Previous responsibility over sales budgets
• Understanding and usage of critical metric setting and return on investment
• Experience and ability in presentations
• Willingness to travel to visit local EU markets (once per quarter)

Your New Office

Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack, and a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between the train station and the office at peak times.

Life at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture. We celebrate colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We provide access to services and platforms for wellbeing, listen to our people through conversations and surveys, and act on their suggestions. We provide volunteering day allowances so that staff can support causes they are passionate about.

You can build your career with our learning and personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage staff to try exciting new roles in a wide range of countries, with a mobility team to support you if you take that leap.

Bring Your Uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our social value to fulfil Sony's purpose – "to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology." Bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We Are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe drive our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique. With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contribute to the Sony Group and to planetary-scale issues.

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let's create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com or by mail to Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for and the accommodation required.