TE Connectivity - Product Manager (10-12 yrs)

About the job:

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

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.

Responsibilities:

Market Sensing & Strategy Development:

- Articulate market trends, demand drivers, customer needs, industry trends, and competitive landscape

- Conduct market segmentation exercises to develop market segment-specific strategies.

- Conduct competitive analysis and benchmarking

- Define segment -specific value propositions that beat the competition

- Develop product roadmaps that aligns with business strategy

- Design go-to-market strategy, inclusive of channel strategy and partnerships

- Work with R&D and operations in the development of new products to meet customer requirements.

- Manage the product lifecycle

Develop Business Plan:

- 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.

- Lead to consensus on specific tasks.

- Establish pricing policy

- Develop the annual operating plan (Sales and Gross margin)

- Execution - New Product Development & Launch:

- Be the opportunity champion for PAC projects.

- Plans product launches, including the development of marketing and sales plans.

- Provide demand forecast inputs to S&OP.

- Attend customer meetings in support of winning new business

- Exercise thought leadership.

- Provide inputs to Marcom for the development of collateral, including e-commerce.

Desired Candidate Profile:

- Min 10 yrs of engineering experience /product management.

- Bachelor's degree preferably in Engineering.

- Being able to work in an international and multi-cultural environment

- Strong organizational skills

- Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to simplify complex concepts

- Business acumen and ability to create strong relationships with the customer and insides the reginal sales organization