The Role
Develop a consumer-centric, differentiated and winning product portfolio for our client’s Consumer Hearing business in a cross-functional and agile team. The product portfolio includes ancillary products and services such as apps and ecosystems to drive consumer engagement.
Manage the product lifecycle to optimize sales and profits for a given product, especially through capturing early market feedback and effectively implementing changes to accelerate sustainable growth.
Task & Responsibilities
- Develop a consumer-centric and differentiated product solution including a digital ecosystem (Apps etc.) for the Consumer Hearing business
- Conduct consumer research and understand customer needs hierarchies and translate into specific product/solution requirements
- Actively monitor competitive moves (with focus on CE players) and develop appropriate differentiation strategies
- Continuously collect, interpret and react to market feedback and ensure agile and effective implementation of changes
- Embrace an iterative, release-based development approach, going to market with minimal viable products and upgrading based on market feedback
- Proactively seek opportunities from adjacent industries / products to build out offering, to maximize consumer engagement
- Enable teams to drive consumer-centric, fast paced development of product portfolio
- Instill consumer- and growth-centric mindset into the teams and promote a high-performing working mode
- Work in a collaborative way with R&D & other functions with sales & marketing to further accelerate growth
Requirements
- Technical, Business or Marketing Degree
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in International / Global Product Management with a focus on new product development in Consumer electronics Industry
- Experience in building and launching IoT products connected to a digital ecosystem
- Combination of strong technical background and business acumen, with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Experience of working closely & crossfunctionally with R&D teams
- Digital Start-up experience
- Project management
- Organizational skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Product Management expert
- Business mindset & acumen
- Fluent in English (other languages are a plus)
Personal competencies
- Result driven and solution focused
- High sense of accountability & responsibility
- Innovative thinker with a creative mind
- Effective collaborator & team player
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Aptitude in decision-making and problem-solving
- Strong organizational skills
Social competencies
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams
- Thrives in a agile, fast-based start-up environment
- Feels at ease in a fast changing, ambitious world
Leadership competencies
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority on same hierarchy level or up
- Provides strong leadership with an inclusive and inspirational mind-set
- Walks the fine line between a collaborative and pace-setting style to deliver on time, within budget and on scope
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