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Head of Product Management Truck Tires Americas

Accomplished and results-driven professional with versatile experience in various facets of product management, sales and operations planning, and marketing intelligence.
Credible success developing product strategy and roadmap, overseeing entire product lifecycle, and leading product activities. Well-versed in driving performance and process improvement, carrying out market research, and coordinating product launches. Instrumental at attaining profitability growth, generating value-added sales, and administering strategy and budget planning processes. Talented for aligning a company's product strategy with the overall business strategy, promoting new products, and uncovering consumer preferences.
?	Strong leader; recognized for building, supervising, coaching, and training high-performance teams to achieve established goals across complex and evolving environments. 
?	Articulate and refined communicator; excel at forging and nurturing long-lasting relationships at all levels of management. 
?	Equipped with strong leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills.


Ensure product success as well as outline the vision, direction, priorities, and progress of a product by creating and deploying America's truck tire product strategy and product roadmap. Enable strategic guidance and bandwidth to focus on building better products by leading entire product activities. Ensure optimal quality, profitability, and customer impact of developed product by administering overall product lifecycle aiming at performance and process improvement. Remain up-to-date with market trends by conducting market research. Gain useful insight to facilitate informed decision-making by crafting detailed reports and analyzing data. Oversee all activities involved in rolling out ContiTireAward winner intelligent truck tire and numerous product launches. Act as key spokesperson and represent rubber associations in the US and CAN.
? Attained sales growth in digital solutions with a 23% increase in ContiConnect Yard Readers installed and 211% in activated sensors year over year by introducing first 100% intelligent construction tires.
? Achieved profitability for tire lines by generating 7% increase in net sales per unit.

Owned control over administration of Truck Tires business operations and marketing intelligence. Identified potential patterns and forecasted future sales by tracking sales. kept track of customers order via effective order management. Drove informed decision-making for sales, marketing, and top management by delivering market insight. Fostered provision of excellent quality customer service by streamlining order management processes across markets in Americas.
? Coached, trained, and motivated underperforming insides sales team to become high achiever team.
? Managed an average of 3.5K calls per month with an abandon rate or missing calls of 0.13%; target <1%.

Manager, Sales & Operations Planning

Represented Truck Tires the Americas by playing integral role as key member of business intelligence council in Hannover. Supported decision-making process and strategy planning, including macroeconomic overview, trends, market volumes, market shares, and price index by collecting and providing market data. Enabled attainment of combined objectives within defined cost by coordinating strategy and budget planning processes.
? Improved data quality and reporting by deploying SAP - BW, a worldwide integrated Supply Chain Reporting Platform (Tire Group in the Americas and APAC).
? Drove the medium- and long-term decision-making process by leading the marketing intelligence teams in the Americas markets with the development and introduction of vision 2025, a sales and market estimations.

Manager, Business Intelligence and Supply Chain Projects

Find out detailed information about Helmut Keller, Head of Product Management Truck Tires Americas in Charlotte, NC

Helmut Keller: Head of Product Management Truck Tires Americas in Charlotte, NC

Helmut Keller

Continental Tire the Americas LLC

Truck Tires

Truck Tires

Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey