About the position
As a Product Line Manager at Knowles Corporation, you will play a pivotal role in driving revenue and profit margin growth for the product line. You will be responsible for advocating for excellence in line performance, ensuring timely quotations, line efficiency, on-time delivery, and defect-free products. You will work closely with the sales team to achieve design wins at target customers and engage with various stakeholders including customers, engineering, sales, customer service, and factory to support new business development. Additionally, you will prepare and track bookings and shipments forecasts, develop product roadmaps, communicate product value propositions, monitor competitive products, and coordinate resources for product improvements. You will also supervise Product Specialists and collaborate with Product Marketing to develop sales tools.
Responsibilities
- Drive revenue and profit margin growth for the product line.
- Drive internal and external resources to support customer product fulfillment and to solve customer issues in a timely manner.
- Advocate for excellence in line performance: Timely quotations, Line efficiency, On time delivery, Defect-free product.
- Work with the sales team to achieve design wins at target customers.
- Engage with customers, engineering, sales, customer service, and factory for the delivery of quotations, samples, and information in support of new business development.
- Prepare/track bookings and shipments forecasts and work closely with operations team on production and SIOPS planning.
- Develop product roadmap that outlines short and long-term strategies for product line.
- Communicate the value proposition of the products/capabilities to sales representatives and customers.
- Monitor competitive products and capabilities as input to new product/capabilities development.
- Coordinate resources to deliver product improvements, new products, and capabilities to meet current and emerging market needs.
- Work with Product Marketing to develop assets and sales tools to facilitate the selling of their product lines.
- Supervise Product Specialist.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business or technical discipline.
- Experience with custom product pricing and manufacturing.
- Ability to comprehend, summarize, and communicate customer requirements and business justification across internal and external customers.
- Technical understanding of product specifications.
- Self-driven, results oriented, and virtual management skills.
- Good communication and presentation skills.
- Strong PC skills; competency with Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Ability to travel up to 25%+ of the time.
- Ability to work non-traditional hours.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunities for professional development and growth.
- A dynamic and collaborative work environment focused on innovation and continuous improvement.
- Flexible PTO.
- Paid holidays.
- Prescription Drug Plans.
- Basic Life Insurance.
- Onsite Physician.
- Employee Referral Program.
