(Senior) Director of Product Management

Job Summary

Driving Product Group (PG) revenue and profitability growth, with direct responsibility for Product Management, Business Marketing and Business Fulfilment including Commercial Marketing, and Product Group related Xfunctional leadership of all BG functional unit team members driving the success of the Product Group.

What you will do

1. Business fulfilment

- Team lead of Product Managers and Commercial Marketing Managers in Business fulfilment team

- Product Group business plans (S&OP, RFF, AOP, LTP)

- S&OP (Sales & Operation Plan): input for new type release planning based on business cases

- S&OP to RFF (rolling financial forecast)/AOP (annual operation plan): plan & execute at PG level

- Provide PG level inputs for BG revenue and margin commit

- LTP: generate and align PG plan at frontend and backend capacity corridor level

- LTP: Provide Business related inputs for BG Capacity extension roadmap at LTP level

- Team lead of cross functional product group team across BG Functional Units driving all

- actions required to achieve business plan targets.

- Pricing policies & execution

- Business insight for allocation & loading processes (pricing, inventory)

- Define stock level targets, including safety stocks for the specific Product Group

- Obsolescence cost controlling & decide what to do

- Provide business related inputs for capacity extensions (business cases, business value

propositions)

- Business balanced scorecard: owner of Product Group level BBSC parameters

- Product Group inputs for cost down projects (roadmap, biz cases, CRS) and related PCN drive

- Product portfolio maintenance & product life cycle management from RfS to EOL

2. Product management

- Team lead of Product Managers in Product Management team

- Product Group portfolio and industrial strategy

- Product Group innovation roadmaps

- Product Group portfolio market strategy (markets, applications, competitors, and customers)

- Product Group new product developments: CRS, business case creation & execution, idea to RfS

- Product documentation (Datasheets etc)

- PTMA (Product to Market Alignment) process and execution: New Product Introduction (NPI) to achieve business case fulfilment and Innovative Sales targets

- Product Group related content from Product Managers for Marcom material and activities

- Product launch and market introduction (NPI), definition of Marketing Focus Programs(MFP)

3. Business Marketing

- Team lead of Product Group Regional Marketing Managers in Business Marketing team

- Regional Marketing activities for the Product Group:

- Regional market understanding and business plans: customers, applications, competitors

- Regional portfolio value proposition

- Reference design in / win

- Design in / win push (DIT)

- Marketing Focus Program alignment & execution

- Product launch and market introduction (NPI) in region

- Regional S&OP (RSOPR) alignment for Product Group

- Regional RFF execution for Product Group

What you will need

Hard Skills:

- Professional product marketing background

- Semiconductor device physics and electrical engineering knowledge

- Basic understanding of electronic hardware design blocks

Soft Skills:

- Ability to lead a Business: strategic portfolio direction and operational leadership

- Directly lead team leaders and teams

- Functional lead of cross-functional product group teams

- Excellent communication and presentation skills

- Fluent written and spoken English &German

- Excellent analytical skills and structured work approach

- Highly self-motivated and team-oriented attitude

- Entrepreneurial approach and strong customer focus and service orientation

- Intercultural awareness and ability to work in international teams