Responsible to drive the product efforts focusing on growing our marketplace.
Responsibilities:
Work directly with external and internal customers to understand the critical market, segment, customer (VOC), and competitive and technology trends.
Analyze quantitative market and financial data to identify opportunities, gaps, and risks; understand the product and portfolio ROI throughout the development, NPI and lifecycle phases.
Define and deliver multi-generation product plans based on sound business cases and industry/technology experience.
Conduct in-field hypothesis-based research (in cooperation with segment management and solution marketing) with prototypes and research guides to uncover latent customer needs.
Clarify the definition, value and design of the products and each solution offering.
Lead the definition and creation of detailed requirements for the product and services through visual tools, Agile Vision documents, User Stories, and other formal documentation methods.
Develop innovative business models, value propositions, pricing models, and margin analysis.
Manage marketing to plan and support the market launch.
Work daily with segment management, R&D, technical support, professional services, order management, and other service organizations to meet product delivery KPIs.
Proactively manage the product portfolio, including recommendations for solution consolidation and sunsets
Gather, interpret, and make recommendations based on the market performance of offerings.
Lead a team of product managers as a mentor and coach.
Driving cross functional teams and stakeholders on behalf of the product/portfolio. Able to build an inspiring vision.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field with MBA strongly preferred.
Deep Product management experience (+10 years) with increasing levels of responsibility
Experience in related technology spaces, ideally in SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Computing business models.
Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated, successful team/people management, including cross functional leadership.
Minimum 5 years experience managing or working with Marketing
Minimum of 5 years of experience in manufacturing and/or the EV industry.
Skills and Knowledge:
Ability to build strong trust-based relationships in a highly matrixed organization and to create the vision and alignment to deliver the best solution for the customers.
Ability to create, understand, and justify financial business cases and other market-based metrics.
Ability to model, analyze, and manage financial performance and to articulate outcomes and impacts to Executive level teams on behalf of the portfolio.
Excellent relationship skills, able to build rapport quickly and easily with domain experts, as well as sales and customer services leadership.
Work Environment
This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, and crouching. The employee must frequently lift and move items up to 15 pounds.Must be able to travel.
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