Assistant Product Line Manager

About the Role

An Assistant Product Line Manager will lead and manage elements of the product line strategy for Corning's Solar business serving the US market. The role will ensure the Solar team develops a deep understanding of the US solar market and growth drivers to create compelling value propositions for Corning’s domestically manufactured portfolio. The position supports delivering target market share, revenue and profitability objectives while collaborating with sales and cross-functional teams to maximize commercialization. What You'll Do

• Develop and implement product strategies

• Articulate product attributes, specifications, basis of competition, product trajectory and strategies for solar modules, wafers and polysilicon

• Put in place product roadmap process and work with cross-functional teams to drive new product introduction

• Articulate all solar value propositions to include product attributes, specifications, basis of competition, product trajectory to ensure an advantaged product

• Manage across the product line responsibilities for solar modules manufactured in Arizona.

• Develop pricing strategy and jointly deploy with Module Sales Director

• Develop pricing strategy based on cost analysis, competitive analysis and value analysis

• Ensure pricing strategy is integrated across all products, and is logical and defendable across all nodes in the value chain

• Partner with the solar module sales director to develop effective pricing communication, deal structures and commercial proposals to maximize share and gross margin

• Develop Sales and Commercial Effectiveness Tools

• Develop deep understanding of the customers’ products through frequent customer engagement and how they impact our value proposition

• Work with sales to segment and prioritize customer base at a product level

• Create, implement and maintain process documents to continuously improve the selling decks for customers to maximize effectiveness

• Ensure the sales organization has the supporting information to effectively deploy product line strategies and establish Corning as the innovation leader What We're Looking For

• Ability to manage critical impact of market speed efficiently

• Ability to lead and build consensus among cross-functional, multi-cultural teams and lead change on a gl