Product Manager (Specialist / Manager)

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is the Japanese subsidiary of a global electronic components company providing products such as connectors and sensors. The company offers a wide range of products and solutions for industries including automotive, industrial, medical, communications, and energy.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

• Product Innovation - Drive product development & evolution to build / maintain market leadership with:
  • Proactive market trend analysis, architecture research, close customer communication to define target product
  • Prioritization with cross-function alignment & Lead to get resource needed
  • Competitor benchmark to understand product strength for GTM also improvement points for new product development
• Project execution - Platform product development and GTM execution:
  • Coordinate internal team and resource to drive project launch and execution from front end GTM to back-end operation to drive product success
  • Closely work with sales and engineering to identify target customers, and set go to market strategy and support SPEC-in company product.
  • Lead the price strategy with sales team.
• Margin Improvement - Manage product margin to achieve target level / keep at healthy level:
  • Drive product cost reduction through close collaboration with operation / procurement / engineering team
  • Control Price erosion / price increase with sales & pricing team
  • Manage other related items such as product mix, Mfg source optimization
• Other supporting task - Support AP PM team for other tasks such as:
  • KPI target setting & progress track
  • Regional / Global best practice sharing
  • Cross-country project coordination

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• 5+ years of product management or sales, engineering experience
• 3+ years Automotive industry experience needed
• Strong communication skills needed with cross-function team
• Pro-active and fast speed of learning skill
• Presentation/excel/data analysis skill needed
• Fluent English and Japan, other language such as Chinese would-be good plus

Salary

8 - 11 million yen

Location

Kanagawa