Product Manager Role, USA
The focus of your brief is supporting our North America market requirements, but there will be a wider worldwide mandate to understand our customer needs for network structured cabling; as our new Product Manager, you will be responsible for our product development life cycle and executing on your plans.
This new role offers plenty of scope to bring your product management experience, from which you will be expected to deliver your ideas and to drive value to our business. Key goals include identifying market opportunities through research and collaborating with sales to support the business plan. Then taking these opportunities to delivery timely product introductions by coordinating a range of departmental teams, from technical, supply chain to manufacturing.
Your main responsibilities:
- You will be responsible for leading the execution of a product roadmap for structured cabling features and contribute to the development lifecycle and continual improvement of the business.
- You will need to work with a wider team, including sales and customers, to gather clear wants and needs to develop into a coherent business and then product plan.
- Bring key business skills to enable monitoring, planning, execution, and delivery of projects on time, in budget, and within the defined scope. Tracks status and manage teams to mitigate issues and risks.
- The role will require an understanding of the competition, market pricing and the monitoring/review/recommendations of Molex product prices and costs.
- The key regional focus is the North American but not exclusively.
- You will have responsibility for maintaining the USA quote tool for product accuracy, including sales price changes and cost updates.
What You Will Bring
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Business.
- 2+ years of relevant sales or business development experience
- 5+ years of experience working with a manufacturing or engineering organization, preference in network connectivity space
What Puts You Ahead
- Prior experience in Product management
- Strong understanding of connector development in the data center space
- Prior financial and economic thinking
- Global work experience
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