Software product marketing mgr. (in Paris)

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From: "Alex MOISSIS" <amoissis@bo-corp.businessobjects.com>

Job Description: Software Product Marketing Manager (in Paris)

Date: 10 July 1996

Description:

This position, based in Paris, is primarily responsible for the development of written marketing tools (in English) to support Business Objects sales on a worldwide basis. These tools include presentations, collateral, and demonstrations that communicate product positioning and the key technical product features and associated benefits. The position has secondary responsibilities that may include sales training, pricing, packaging, naming, and preliminary product research.

• Product positioning creation
• Authoring product collateral including data sheets, brochures, and white papers.
• Creation of product presentations
• Creation of product demonstrations
• Internal training presentations at sales training and distributor meetings.

Requirements:

• 2 to 5 years experience in software product marketing and/or pre-sales technical support at an application development tools, decision support tools, or relational database software vendor.
• A high energy level and a willingness to work hard.
• A technical undergraduate degree preferred. MBA preferred.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English.
• Relocation to Paris.

Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJY) is the world's leading supplier of integrated query, reporting, and OLAP tools. The company's flagship product, BUSINESSOBJECTS, provides mainstream business users with access to information stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications. The company pioneered the market for business-intelligent decision support tools in 1990 by introducing the first product to use a "semantic layer" to map complex database schemas to a business representation understandable by non-technical end users.

Business Objects led the overall decision support tools market in 1995 with software license revenues of $48.7M. Business Objects generated over $60M in total revenue in 1995, concluding its fifth consecutive year of more than 100% revenue growth. BUSINESSOBJECTS has been licensed in more than 50 countries to over 2,900 customer sites and 160,000 users worldwide. Business Objects partners with more than 350 leading third-party vendors including Arbor, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Informix, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Prism, Red Brick, SAP, Sun, and Sybase. Strategic resellers include Bull, Digital, Fujitsu, NCR, Price Waterhouse, Sequent, SHL, Siemens Nixdorf, Toshiba, and Unisys. More information on Business Objects can be found on the worldwide web at http://www.businessobjects.com.

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