Product Manager (Specialist / Manager)

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Job details

Company overview

The company is the Japanese subsidiary of a global connectivity and sensor solutions provider. It develops, manufactures, and sells connectors, sensors, switches, antennas, and cable assemblies for automotive, industrial, medical, communications, and energy markets, enabling reliable data, signal, and power connectivity across critical applications.

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