Sr. Mgr. Product Management, Data Connectivity Global Portfolio Lead Differential

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:

• The key tasks of the role to successfully getting the business to the next phase of growth, include:
• Strategic Portfolio Management for the global Data Connectivity Differential product portfolio by understanding the various regional (customer) requirements and aligning the different regional organizations on a single Differential Portfolio Strategy
• Foster best practice sharing between regions enabling successful margin improvements and revenue grows
• Enablement and support of regional project execution esp. on cross-regional and large strategic projects
• Build culture of continuous improvement, which leverages best practice processes and metrics to drive year-over-year improvements by partnering with operations including optimization of global manufacturing footprints as well as driving product management excellence
• Driving the coordination of go-to-market strategies and cross-regional and cross-functional activities
• Gaining market share with data connectivity differential products
• Build out product roadmaps in technically complex market environments, aligning with key accounts and create differentiation in target applications.
• Assess and articulate opportunities with new technological trends ensuring long-term continuous pipeline growth and enabling sales force to capture and secure new opportunities.

Requirements:

• Minimum 10 years’ experience combining several experiences, with at least 5 years in Product Management, in industry (Automotive Connectors, experience in Data Connectivity Products strictly preferred).
• Minimum of 4 years technical or business degree required; preference for advanced degree (MS, MBA).
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to build credible relationships with multiple functions and work successfully across various cultures
• Proven commercial and leadership track record to drive regional/global market share gains, including sales, operations, and engineering teams with significant customer exposure at senior executive level in a fast paced and changing environment with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Proven financial acumen in evaluating project and program financials and change management
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills in leading teams and managing cross-functional teams globally.
• Ability to effectively work under pressure in a global environment and to meet challenging targets.
• Demonstrated Experience successfully scaling newly launched product portfolios.
• Clear, strategic thinker with vision and the ability to execute on priorities.
• Up to 30% of domestic and international travel dependent on business needs are required.