VAT Vakuumventile AG is seeking a Head of Product Management Motion and Bellows in Haag, Switzerland.
Your Challenges
1. Develop the overall business strategy, mid-to-long term planning, budgeting, sales projections, and profit and loss results aligned with corporate targets.
2. Drive market and competitive intelligence to inform strategies and short-term measures to maintain competitiveness.
3. Assign and develop resources, prioritizing tasks and communicating with stakeholders to achieve business results.
4. Lead product management and direct the engineering team to meet business unit goals.
5. Foster engagement within teams and garner support from matrix functions to improve product development efficiency.
6. Monitor and enhance the product development process to improve efficiencies.
7. Define and manage the product portfolio and roadmaps, setting clear cost and time goals for core tech, BU engineering, operations, and quality.
8. Collaborate with VAT innovation groups to foster innovation and share platforms in products and technology.
9. Support operations to release the supply chain for owned products.
10. Engage with sales to monitor and drive business results.
11. Promote a zero-defect culture by interacting with quality teams.
12. Apply company standards of excellence to daily work and demonstrate personal commitment to excellence.
13. Identify minimum requirements and total offerings, driving platform development with head of engineering.
Your Competencies
1. Bachelor's or Master's degree in an engineering-related field.
2. Fluent business English skills (written and spoken).
3. Profound project management skills in an international company.
4. Strong communication skills for effective customer escalation.
5. Experience in product management for highly differentiated industrial businesses.
6. Knowledge of practical product life cycle management.
7. Strong entrepreneurship and strategic thinking.
8. Solid experience managing international projects.
9. Account management experience.
10. Expertise in Semiconductor market or extensive experience in vacuum industry.
11. Management experience leading professional-level teams.
12. Willingness to travel 20-25%.