Product Manager

WhiteCrow Research Pvt. Ltd.; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

WhiteCrow Research Pvt. Ltd. is seeking an experienced Product Manager in Pune to lead strategy and lifecycle of the automotive product family.

You will drive market entries, partnerships and roadmap alignment with business goals, while coordinating with R&D and Operations to deliver innovative products. The role requires 7+ years in automotive product management, a Bachelor's in engineering (EE), and strong skills in terminals, connectors, Excel, and leadership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience in automotive.
• Bachelor's degree in electronics/electrical engineering.
• Strong knowledge of terminals and automotive connectors.
• Proficiency in Excel and presentation software.
• Evidence of leadership and targets achievement.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop rolling strategic plan for the product family with financial results.
• Drive new product entries, market adjacencies and partnerships.
• Align roadmaps with business strategy and market needs.
• Collaborate with R&D and Operations on new products.
• Manage pricing, productivity, and product mix to drive growth.
• Engage with customers and distributors to build relationships.

Skills

Product management

Automotive experience

Leadership

Communication skills

Excel skills

Strategic thinking

Relationship building

Influence

Learning agility

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering (EE)

Tools

Terminal & connectors knowledge

Job description

About WhiteCrow

We are global talent research, insight, and sourcing specialists with offices in the UK, USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Dubai, and India. Our international reach has helped us to understand and penetrate specialist markets at a global level. In addition to this, our service is also extended to complement our client’s in-house talent acquisition teams.

About our client

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for...

Strategy Development

• Creating and controlling a rolling strategic plan for the assigned product family to deliver strong financial results, including driving organic growth through product portfolio expansion, launching new products into market adjacencies, and pursuing inorganic strategies to expand product depth and/or breadth and enhance relevance to customers and channels.
• Creating breakthroughs, such as new market entries, new products, new business models, and partnerships, through excellence in building an ideas funnel, selecting and prioritizing ideas, actively experimenting, and scaling proven concepts.
• Cascading the vision and strategy throughout the organization and linking it to clear near-term plans and metrics while creating organizational buy-in through early engagement.
• Articulating market trends, demand drivers, customer needs, industry trends, and the competitive landscape.
• Developing an in-depth understanding of major competitors across key product markets and leveraging competitive intelligence for strategic decision-making.
• Developing product and technology roadmaps that are aligning with business strategy and market needs.
• Working with R&D and Operations in developing new products to meet current and future customer and market requirements while fostering a humble, learning-oriented, growth-oriented, and continuous improvement mindset and culture across the organization.
• Communicating effectively and extensively across multiple levels of the organization.

Developing Business Plan

• Defining the resource requirements necessary to execute product and technology roadmaps.
• Establishing and executing pricing policies.
• Working effectively with Regional Product Management teams to drive execution of product line strategies.
• Partnering with the Sales organization and driving empowerment to accelerate speed and responsiveness while jointly defining go-to-market (GTM) strategies.
• Establishing and developing close relationships and strong customer intimacy with key customers and focus distributors for the assigned product family.

Driving Profitable Growth of Assigned Portfolio

• Managing the P&L, including sales and gross margin, for the assigned product line.
• Delivering growth above market through strong New Product Introduction (NPI) and market share gain execution.
• Driving year-over-year gross margin expansion by developing and executing robust pricing strategies, driving operational productivity, and improving product mix where relevant.
• Leading critical projects to drive competitive advantage for the assigned product line.
• Tracking progress against the business plan and facilitating the resolution of performance gaps.
• Working on futuristic applications and anticipating future market needs to specify and introduce new products into the market.
• Working on gaining market intelligence with the support of cross-functional team members to drive the revenue growth pipeline and executing the same with utmost accuracy.

What you already have...

• 7+ years of product management experience in an automotive environment.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline preferably Electronics and Electrical
• Well versed with Terminal and connectors and automotive applications
• Strong hold in Microsoft excels and presentation
• Evidence of leadership responsibility for market, product management, product development and sales targets
• Learning agility and Strategic Growth Mindset Executing for Results
• Building Relationships and Using Influence to reach set targets
• Highly Effective communication skills