TE Connectivity's Product Management Teams manage all aspects of a product, from driving new product development to manufacturing to marketing.
They are responsible for overall product strategy, business leadership and capacity plans in order to meet sales and profit targets.
**About the position**:
**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Research market trends, demand drivers, customer needs, industry trends and competitive landscape
- Conduct competitive analysis and benchmarking
- Work with marketing to provide materials to support the go to market strategy, inclusive of channel strategy and partnerships
- Work with R&D and operations in the development of new products to meet current and future customer requirements
- Manage the product lifecycle by providing product trend analysis to the lead PM(s)
- Work cross functionally to achieve sales, technology and operations strategies and goals, in line with financial goals
- Implement pricing policy as defined by lead PM(s)
- Assist in the development of the annual operating plan (Sales and gross or standard margin)
- Work with finance to provide financial analysis in support of new product launch
- Provide product information and samples to customers and sales team in support of new product launches
- Gather product specification and product attribute information for the development of marketing collateral
- Provide product demand forecast inputs to the S&OP process
- Perform pricing analysis in preparation of catalogue price changes or in response to special pricing requests
- Develop the sales forecast for the S&OP plan
- Responding to requests for proposals
- Assis in championing the resolution of product issues e.g.
delivery, quality, inventory
- Respond to request for samples
- Issue product change notices and material change orders
- Issue RTS notices for new stock requests
**Experience**
- 4-year technical or business degree required
- Relevant product or industry experience desired
- Problem Solving/Analysis
- Proficiency with MS Office suite of tools
- Comfort with IT systems (SAP, SFDC etc) to manage assignment
- Project o product backgrownd
**Competencies**:
- Values: Integrity, Accountability, Teamwork, Innovation