Product Line Manager Business Owner: Filters - Isolators & Circulators

Job description

• Develop strategy and marketing plans for assigned product line. • Specifies market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by ongoing visits to customers and non-customers. • Develop and analyze key metrics for the assigned product line on a regular basis to assess overall performance. • Ensure profitability of assigned product line. • Collaborate with engineering to define product release requirements and roadmap. • Actively manage product lifecycle – conceptualization, launch, production, and end of life. • Utilize pricing power framework to establish reference prices. • Provide input into the discounting guidelines. • Collaborate with Marketing Communications to define product market communication objectives, go-to-market strategy, and launch plan (product positioning, key benefits, target customers). • Support development, release, and dissemination of marketing collaterals, including web content. · Conduct market, customer, competitor, and user research; analyze potential partner relationships, if applicable, for the product line. • Monitor Smiths Interconnect and competitors’ share in addressed market. • Maintain a comprehensive product offering presentation. • Contribute to Smiths Interconnect’s synergies, manufacturing, and sales. • Actively support key stakeholders by providing trainings, meeting with customers, and participating in project reviews. • Co-define with Sales strategic customers list and associated level of service. • Comply with all Smiths Interconnect EHS programs, policies, procedures, and participate in required trainings. Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: • Bachelor’s degree in electrical or electronic engineering. Also having an MBA is a big advantage. • Technical experience with RF products is required. Experience with circulators, isolators, and filters is a big advantage. • Travel %: Up to 35% (may vary from 100% travel one month to 0% travel the next). • Open to fully remote within the US territory. • Security: Please State if US Citizen or permanent Resident Required. Must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident to comply with ITAR requirements. Smiths Interconnect, is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance interconnect solutions. Our products are used in mission-critical applications across industries such as aerospace, defense, telecommunications, and industrial markets. At Smiths Interconnect, we are committed to innovation, quality, and providing cutting-edge solutions that connect the world’s most demanding systems. Smiths Interconnect is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, to help create a safer, more efficient and productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defense, space & aerospace and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs c.16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries. Job Purpose: · Manage assigned product line to achieve company goals and targets. · Elaborate strategy, business / marketing plan and products roadmap for current and potential new markets addressed by Smiths Interconnect which maximize sales, gross profit and trading profit and grow Smiths Interconnect at a market leading rate. · Obtain competitive information from external consultants / surveys and conduct in-depth economical and technical benchmarks resulting in a good understanding of competitive landscape. · Based on future market requirements, define the right technology and products developed by engineering. · In close collaboration with sales teams and Marketing Communication, participate in the elaboration of all go-to-market strategies and materials. · Develop pricing strategies to maximize profit, revenue and market share. · Deliver customer satisfaction while providing long-term value for the company.