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Description
Laird™ Technologies, a Qnity™ business, has an opening for a North American Regional Product Manager within the Thermal Management team. The Thermal Management organization is responsible for delivering thermal solutions across various markets including aerospace & defense, automotive, consumer, datacenter, industrial and telecom/datacom segments. The Laird™ thermal management portfolio includes a broad set of Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) from liquid dispensed and sheet-based gap fillers, thermal greases and gels, phase change materials and electrically insulating films.
The Product Manager is a driving force for meeting the regional growth, profitability and return on asset objectives of a product line. They also have primary global responsibility for developing the strategic plan for his or her products, integrating the plan with global, regional and functional plans, obtaining necessary approvals for human and financial resources from management, and achieving the agreed goals through the global, regional and functional organizations.
In this role, the Product Manager will take on regional responsibilities for the North American region and have global responsibilities for a part of the product portfolio focused to a given product form factor.
Job Description (Functional Responsibilities):
- Own product line profit and loss (P&L) responsibilities for North American region; driving product revenue, new product sales, and meeting gross margin targets.
- Manage a global product line through the product life cycle; from identifying market opportunities within targeted segments, developing and designing product needs, leading product launch and driving growth.
- Collaborate with our customer base and cross-functionally within Laird™ business to develop product roadmaps and supporting business cases in targeted market segments and focused applications.
- Partner with R&D organization to execute on our new product development pipeline, serving as the driving force to connect customers’ needs to key performance properties of developing products
- Drive strategic planning projects including go-to-market strategies, product rationalization plans, and determine targeted market-based pricing.
- Drive product line results in through training and support of field application engineers, sales team, and distribution partners.
- Collaborate with Communications team to create and maintain effective marketing collateral, advertising campaigns, sales tools, and trade show engagement.
- Conduct competitive analysis, market research, and product positioning.
- Monitor New Business Opportunities (NBO) in Salesforce, track and support key customer projects and drive conversion to sales alongside Commercial and R&D/engineering organizations.
- Manage pricing and cost improvement projects to increase profitability across numerous manufacturing sites and in collaboration with supply chain organization.
- Develop business case for required capability builds in areas like application engineering, test development, automation, dispense engineering
- Develop a region-for-region manufacturing strategy across the Thermal Product Line, then drive site engineering projects to establish local manufacturing of a given product.
Qualifications (Knowledge & Experience)
- BA/BS in a technical field, an advanced business degree is preferred.
- 5 to 8 years’ general experience in disciplines such as marketing, sales, manufacturing, engineering and/or finance.
- 2+ years of proven experience in product line management, business development or customer-facing roles is strongly preferred.
- 2+ years of experience in electronic applications relevant to the Laird customer base is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of global business practices.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with business leaders, Sales/FAEs, customer service, engineering, finance, supply chain, and operations teams.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate (both oral and written) at all levels with external and internal stakeholders. Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills. Highly skilled in negotiation and influence management.
- Demonstrated customer focused mindset, responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems.
- Experience working with distributors and helping sales leaders find solutions to channel conflicts.
- Knowledge of sales tools, including: Salesforce.com, demand planning processes, sales reporting.
- Strong analytical skills, and ability to turn data into business insights.
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