Job Overview

What your background should look like:

We’re hiring a Product Management Manager for Industrial BU China and SEA, reporting to Senior Manager, Product Mgmt, Asia-Pacific. This role will closely work with Global PM and RPM team in China, Japan, as well as other key function team such as sales, engineering, operation.

Role Summary

Analyze market and industry trends, customer needs, Voice of Customer (VOC), and the competitive landscape. Translates this information into product line plans

• Develop product line vision, strategy, product and technology roadmaps and business plans and make executions for new product development and launch.
• Builds alignment across multiple functions inside the organization
• P&L Responsibility: deliver on revenue and gross (or standard) margin targets by driving execution of the business plan
• Product lifecycle management (“housekeeping” of the product line like product launches, rationalization, slow moving inventory and cost reduction, etc.)
• Define market lead time requirements, provide guidance on capacity planning by forecasting demand and working closely with the GPM and supply chain organization to set safety stock requirements, etc.
• Maintain customer (including channel) intimacy with key players
• Demonstrate thought leadership to internal and external stakeholders
• Perform VOC and provide engineering with product requirements definition and specifications.

Qualifications:

1. 4-year technical or business degree required. Advanced degree (MBA) or relevant P&L management experience preferred
2. 5+ years of product management or sales, engineering experience.
3. Relevant product or industry experience desired.
4. Strong communication skill needed with cross-country team
5. Pro-active and fast speed of learning skill
6. Travel expected for both Japan and Asia-Pacific region
7. Fluent English and Japanese required. Other language such as Chinese/Korean would be good plus
8. Highly interpersonal and communication skills
9. Drives results primarily through collaboration and influence and passion with cross functional team
10. Interacts and/or negotiates effectively

Competencies