Product manager

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Product manager

Title:                   Product Manager

Reports To:           Sustainable & modular seat strategy director

Essential responsibilities and duties

In alignment to the SMS strategy, and for a various, complex and diverse product scope, worldwide, the Product Manager leads the product plan process and promotes his/her product line up through dedicated events and acquisition processes for a various, complex and diverse product scope, worldwide. He provides a long term view on market evolutions and orientates the innovation strategy.

The main missions of the role are:

Understand market value:

 Understand the market for a given product line: competition, technology, norms and regs, segmentation, price trend, customers, and end users

- Describe and document market and customers expectations for engineering and sales department

- Build diagnostics and identify business opportunities: growth, profitability, innovation, cost improvement

- Provide market oriented ranking criteria to prioritize our innovation portfolio

Build value offer:

- Business owner of innovation projects in his/her product field

- Provide support and orientation to innovation projects (identify the target customers and models)

- Assess the market opportunities of new offerings

- Contribute to the definition of new offerings: functions, specs, price, positioning, and market approach

- Identify adequate business model (make versus buy, partnership, supplier panel,...)

- Issue every year the product plan

- Establish the business plan and present it during innovation project milestones

Deliver value:

- In charge of bringing the innovation to the market successfully: support acquisition process, define the product communication (selling tools, demonstrators,...)

- Lead the definition of a value based pricing policy (together with costing, engineering and sales)

- Monitor the deployment of the product strategy: product improvement, footprint strategy, cost improvement, profitability

                      Support the Product line Strategic plan

- Prepare every year to the product plan

- Support the product line strategy initiatives (e.g. footprint, profitability, convergence roadmap)

- Support the strategic plan according to the Product line ambition

Lead Business Development Strategy

- Identify potential strategic partners (vertical integration) to increase profitability and product offer to customer

- Propose to the Product line and BG the partnership strategy and lead the validated initiatives with the potential partner

Lead a community of people involved in his product range (transversal management)

Qualifications  

The ideal candidate will have/be :

Minimum Education Level: Master or Bachelor in Engineering Degree and/or Business

Experience :

Minimum 5 years of experience in automotive industry
Professional background in client facing positions (CBU, Acquisition, Program) and/or in Marketing

Nice to have: Has developed successfully product expertise (R&D)

Skills and competencies :  

Fluent in English
Ability to develop a strong product and technology expertise
Business acumen (business plan, business model)
International projects management skills
Results oriented  with strong written and oral communications skills
customer orientation
Ability to work in a matrix organization and strong internal networking capabilities
International mind set, strong analytical skills
ability to deep dive
influencing skills
ability to adapt to different people

The Employee is aware and ensures the respect of the Internal Rules, Code of Ethics and Management Code applicable in the establishment to which she/he is assigned.