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▪ Executes product strategies including value-selling based on customer needs and consistent with BA and segment strategies ▪ Identifies and analyzes specific market environments and trends to support and drive business strategies ▪ Defines market entry strategies and drives sourcing decisions (Make or Buy, footprint development) ▪ Provide strategic direction in alignment with segments and central functions based on BA strategy ▪ Support selected BA strategic projects as defined by Sector and BA Management (i.e, Business Field Portfolio Analysis, …) ▪ Support regional & global alignment
▪ Responsible for selected product portfolios on BA level, leading all necessary activities to meet BA targets with your assigned PDM team ▪ Manage systematic product portfolio and lifecycle aspects (product identification, launch, profitability guardiancy, phase out, setting of strategic price points, create product training materials) ▪ Driving product development/Technology and operations to implement the product portfolio and roadmap in the most successful and profitable way ▪ Identify and develop current and future value-selling opportunities ▪ Gather and share market intelligence ▪ Management of Product Master Data for product information management (PIM), product hierarchy and input for marketing activities ▪ Consolidates product requirements (incl. quality) based on input from segment or other sources.
▪ Interfaces with sales/application engineering, R&D, purchasing and operations for development of new products and optimization of existing product lines in accordance with customer and market needs ▪ Create business cases for strategic decision-making (e.g. new business opportunities, phase out) ▪ Support product portfolio topics and BA growth fields, strategy, business models, white spots, foster standardization ▪ Shared responsible for product portfolio transformation including execution
▪ Support BA and Group Sector projects and process activities ▪ Leading selected projects and project teams to achieve successful completion of the project objectives in terms of timing, scope, financial and quality requirements