PRODUCT MANAGER IV, UPSTREAM

Job Overview

TE Connectivity's Product Management Teams manage all aspects of a product, from driving new product development to manufacturing to marketing. They are responsible for overall product strategy, business leadership and capacity plans in order to meet sales and profit targets. Develops and sets the strategic vision and direction for the portfolio(s) of products, leveraging deep understanding of technical, market, and customer needs to define the product roadmap, drive innovation and new product 
development from concept to launch, and ensure alignment with business unit objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate the Portfolio Business Plan to internal and external stakeholders, including product vision, long term portfolio growth targets, value drivers, and KPI’s.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop business cases that translate customer requirements to product features, driving future innovation and next-gen platforms
• Develop and manage the product roadmap, including feature identification, requirements definition, and alignment with engineering technology roadmap.
• Ensure cross-functional collaboration to execute product roadmap, approve budget and product stages, and create buy-in from internal and external stakeholders.
• Conduct comprehensive market research to gain insights and identify unmet needs, market trends and risks.
• Collaborate with engineering and strategy teams to identify and assess fit of business partner and M&A target
• Create detailed business cases for new product initiatives, including market analysis, financial projections, risk assessment, and go-to-market confidence.
• Develop go-to-market strategies, including distribution strategy, and collaborate with downstream product and marketing team to drive go-to-market processes and initiatives.

Required Skills

Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.

Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.

B2B negotiating – commercial and business partners: Knowledge and experience with contract and business negotiations

Create excitement for the future: Knowledge of the importance of encouraging the team's motivation to achieve objectives and ability to promote an organization's characteristics in ways that enhance others' commitment to that organization

Envision the future: Knowledge of evolving the business to remain competitive; ability to understand, adapt oneself to, respond to and proactively seek changes and innovation in the business environment to improve the competitive advantage of an organization

Execute the plan in a disciplined way: Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.

Hold people accountable: Understanding the importance of taking personal responsibility; ability to take personal responsibility for assignments, decisions and results, and focus on activities that have the greatest impact on meeting work commitments.

Judgment and Decision Making: Knowledge of the decision-making process; ability to carefully evaluate the impact of emerging business situations and choose the best path forward communicating actions and activities that maximize organizational performance.

Coach & develop people: Understanding the importance of facilitating individual team member's growth; ability to help team members to learn and develop continuously, gaining personal satisfaction from helping others develop their knowledge and capabilities.

Competencies