Global Product Manager- Automotive, Mid-Level

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Job Summary:

Koch is a company that empowers its employees to create value while making life better. They are seeking a Global Product Manager to define and execute the product strategy for electrical connection systems in the automotive industry, working collaboratively with customers and cross-functional teams to drive product development and market engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the vision and product strategy for electrical connection systems within the automotive industry.

• Work interactively with customers and cross functional development team that includes product engineering, manufacturing, and sales to provide solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner.

• Responsible for the product portfolio creation and expansion, the roadmap visualization, P&L and driving customer engagements to execute this vision.

• Develop sound points of view on technologies, products, customers, competitors and convert market trends into actionable product line strategies.

• Develop a short-term grow strategy to capture current market/revenue growth opportunities as well as a 5-10-year strategic vision on select products.

• Own the product roadmap and development opportunities, providing prioritized guidance to the organization.

• Define, execute, and manage pricing strategy, P&L and manufacturing footprint for product portfolio, including compilation of competitive price points to manage future price erosion.

• Ability to dissect complex problems and develop innovative solutions that drive business success.

• Manage the product lifecycle and portfolio management activities.

• Interact with suppliers and ecosystem partners to ensure overall value chain.

• Responsible for the marketing and branding for the overall responsible products.

• Create and deliver technical product trainings and technical brochures to support the global sales force and customers.

• Develop growth and penetration strategies for underdeveloped customers and markets.

• Engage with customers in the development of specifications and technical requirements, which can be used to direct the development of new products, product variants or improvements.

• Lead customer segmentation and value chain activities to identify key decision makers and design opportunities.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Understand today’s vehicle wiring and electrical architectures, challenges and have the knowledge base to visualize the OEM needs, pain points and trends for the future.

• Ability to articulate this vision and develop products.

• Degree in Business or Engineering with 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Sales or equivalent skillset.

• Ability to be agile, communicate, create a vision across the business unit with a foundation of economic thinking and evaluating risk and outcomes.

• Sales experience and developing sound points of views.

• Financial experience and economic thinking.

Company:

Based in Wichita, Kansas, Koch is one of the largest private companies in America. Founded in 1940, the company is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Koch has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.