Product Line Manager

**This position can be based remotely in Europe, preferably UK, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Gerrmany.**

**General Summary**

Responsible for developing profitable growth of Heliax products line in assigned region. Strong emphasis on bringing products and solutions to the market but also has overall product line management responsibility. Responsibilities include product line strategy, new product development, pricing, profitability, and marketing. Position has cross-functional responsibility working with Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Distribution Channels.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Through close contact with target market and customers, responsible for new product visioning and idea generation. Attends trade shows, reviews market / trade publications and interfaces with sales workforce. Participates in technology and product roadmap development. Develops business cases for new product development including financial evaluations (RR, ROI, OPP, Cost), competitive and market analyses, customer needs, critical success factors, sales justifications, and other business case components. Defines target markets / customers and product positioning.
- Develops product definition including price, cost and performance objectives, reliability and functional features, manufacturability, and life cycle forecasts. Identifies and selects sales channels to distribute products to targeted markets / customers. Develops new production introduction plan.
- Responsible for profit and loss (P&L), evaluating, recommending and initiating cost reductions, discount analyses and inventory levels. Develops and evaluates opportunities for new products and / or line extensions. Identifies new target markets and related strategies.

**Accountability/Impact of Job**

Regional

**Related Education & Experience**
- Bachelors related cirriculum such as: Business Administration or related field **w/ 8+ years of combined product management and professional svcs exp and 3+ years of management experience**

**Strategic Skills**

**Business Acumen**
Knows how businesses work; knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, technology, and information affecting his/her business and organization; knows the competition; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace

**Strategic Agility**
Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.

**Personal & Interpersonal Skills**

**Customer Focus**
Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

**Building Effective Teams**
Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

**Motivating Others**
Creates a climate in which people want to do their best; can motivate many kinds of direct reports and team or project members; can assess each person's hot button and use it to get the best out of him/her; pushes tasks and decisions down; empowers others; invites input from each person and shares ownership and visibility; makes each individual feel his/her work is important; is someone people like working for and with.

**Operating Skills**

**Priority Setting**
Spends his/her time and the time of others on what's important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focu

**Energy & Drive**

**Drive for Results**
Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

**Must-Haves : ( Mandatory )**
- Previous Product Management Experience within Heliax/Cable& Connectivity
- Customer facing skills with previous sales and customer engagement
- Technically capable with previous experience in a similar role

Application Question(s):

- DO YOU HAVE PREVIOUS PRODUCT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE WITHIN HELIAX/CABLE& CONNECTIVITY ? PLEASE CONFIRM
- DO YOU HAVE CUSTOMER FACING SKILLS WITH PREVIOUS SALES AND CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT ? PLEASE COMMENT
- ARE YOU TECHNICALLY CAPABLE WITH PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN A SIMILAR ROLE ? PLEASE COMMENT
- PLEASE SHARE YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS AND YOUR ZIP CODE
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION YOU WOULD LIKE THE EMPLOYER TO KNOW ? PLEASE COMMENT