Regional Product Manager

Short Description

What you can look forward to as Regional Product Manager:

• Drive relevant project and project status communications among ZF stakeholders (customer, supplier, project team, functional & divisional management).
• Responsible for building, managing, developing and leading the product management function for a specific project.
• Monitor market needs and requirements, taking into account future technologies, competitor products/services and regulatory issues to develop and implement innovative customer solutions for existing and new products.
• Ongoing implementation of the business plan (including, but not limited to: benchmarking coverage, quality, pricing, application holes, margin, features and benefits).
• Creation and maintenance of accurate interchanges and quality comparisons, competitive analysis and testing, and global unit cost competitiveness necessary to strengthen the company's value proposition.
• Develops the product line strategy through planning sessions with key internal and external stakeholders, defining product positioning requirements to meet company profit objectives and brand positioning.
• Strategically manage the product / product portfolio from cradle to grave. Establish price positioning, product definition/composition, coverage, features, monitoring category KPIs and recommend sourcing alternatives necessary to meet sales & margin objectives based on competitive environment and product line strategy.
• Visit ZF and supplier manufacturing facilities working with the operations team to improve product performance and reduce cost.