(Technical) Regional Marketing Manager

Vishay manufactures one of the world's largest portfolios of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components that are essential to innovative designs in the automotive, industrial, computing, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. We help the world's most in-demand technologies come to life. Every day our products touch your life and the lives of people across the world, though you likely do not know it. Come join us and help us build The DNA of tech.™

We are looking for a Regional Marketing Manager South Europe (m/f/d)

Location: France Remote (home office)

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 will be considered
• 3 years + of experience in the electronics industry; passive component experience preferred
• 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 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.