PRODUCT MANAGER IV

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.
The Global Product Manager will have responsibility for highspeed backplane connector products in Converged Data Solutions product team.  Global Product Managers act as a “mini” GM driving the overall product strategy, business leadership and capacity plans to achieve revenue and gross margin targets that enable long term competitiveness and success of the product line. This individual will develop and implement strategies for new business opportunities. This will include identifying growth opportunities within key existing accounts, as well as developing relationships with emerging customers and market segments. 
This role requires strong strategic thinking, experience working across regions and a strong proactive work ethic. This role must closely collaborate cross-functionally with colleagues in Sales, Engineering, Operations and Marketing to gain alignment and drive the successful execution of the product roadmaps

. Articulate market trends, demand drivers, customer needs, industry trends, and competitive landscape
. Conduct competitive analysis and benchmarking
. Develop product roadmaps that aligns with business strategy
. Define resource requirements necessary to execute the product roadmap
. Work cross functionally to define sales, technology and operations strategies and goals, in line with financial goals. 
. Plan product launches, including the development of marketing and sales plans
. Be the opportunity champion for PAC projects.
. Build strong connection with target customer engineering team
. Provide demand forecast inputs to S&OP and drives needed capacity
. Manage the P&L (sales and gross or standard margin) for the assigned portfolio
. Track progress to the business plan and facilitate resolution to gaps. 

What your background should look like:

. 5+ years of product management, sales, business development or other relevant experience
. 4-year technical or business degree required
. Highspeed interconnect product or industry experience desired
. Knowledge on highspeed interconnect signal integrity and system architecture is highly desired
. Advanced degree (MBA) or relevant P&L management experience preferred
. Strong business acumen with an ability to understand technically complex concepts
. Creative and innovative thinker able to provide input on the development of the product strategies and the relevant business plans with the ability to execute
. Proven ability to multi-task and drive results in a dynamic, high paced environment
. Strong interpersonal, planning, organization, and teamwork skills.
. Ability to influence cross functional teams both internally and externally
. Advanced presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to foster understanding and acknowledgement of critical information both up and down the organization

Competencies