Product Manager

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Responsibilities: 

• Define market trends, demand drivers, customer needs, industry trends, and competitive landscape
• Conduct market segmentation to develop market segment-specific strategies
• Business development in US region- Drive sales/FAE/SA team to fuel pipeline 
• Conduct competitive analysis and benchmarking
• Develop product roadmaps that aligns with business strategy
• Work with R&D and Operations in the development of new products to meet current and future customer requirements
• Develop market-based cost targets to align with BU profitability targets, and align product teams to achieve those targets
• Manage the product lifecycle, focusing on capacity expansion ramps, and defining the right cost early in design cycles
• Establish pricing policy
• Attend customer meetings in support of winning new business 
• Exercise thought leadership
• Manage the P&L (sales and gross or standard margin) for the assigned portfolios

Requirements:

• 2-10 years of product management and/or engineering experience
• Relevant product or industry experience desired
• 4-year technical degree required
• Creative and innovative thinker able to provide input on the development of the product strategies and the relevant business plans with the ability to execute 
• Strong interpersonal, planning, organization, and teamwork skills
• Experienced leader with an ability to influence cross functional teams and to build strong relationships both internally and externally