Associate AFC Product Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Learn to be the business leader for a product through collaboration with all cross-functional organizations to achieve specific product outcomes.
• Be accountable for product price, cost, profitability, market share, competitive analysis, product quality and inventory.
• Set and manage clear customer-facing product offerings or options that the organization can commercially promise and deliver.
• Set list price for product, features, aftermarket parts, and services.
• Learn to implement strategies to drive new product development, and management of technical features and options.
• Support the product roadmaps, manage new product development plans, and implement 'next model' developments, blending market and business requirements to drive short term business performance and long-term customer satisfaction.
• Develop the ability to manage product life cycle strategies to drive the sunrise and sunset of product offerings, features and options in alignment with product roadmaps, proven designs, cost controls and inventory.
• Drive accountability for development of cross-product platforms, maintenance of technical product configuration options, and consistent use of Komatsu Mining's business systems and databases.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the market dynamics of the product. Use this knowledge to guide requirements, promotional strategies and selling tools for the product.
• Manage or perform market research involving meetings with customers, sales personnel and other stakeholders to define market needs.
• Drive the use of sustainable processes for the compilation of information from these external and internal sources globally.
• Be the central focus for market issues and opportunities for the product, and use this knowledge for the development of clear product requirements and issue resolutions.
• Maintain the positive brand image of the product through consistent maintenance of model families, labeling, and prompt problem resolutions globally.
• Drive development and maintenance of tools and systems to aid in the consistent selling of Komatsu Mining's product offerings globally.
• Administer group resources.
• Develop and maintain the annual budget for this position.
• Prioritize projects based on resource level, and manage or influence human resources.
• Direct engineering in developing or maintaining offerings that meet market needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree, deep business acumen and analytical capability.
• Basic experience managing people and/or major projects in industry.
• Participation in implementing Lean Engineering principles, highly desired.
• Participation in effective Change Management implementation, highly desired.
• Certifications or demonstrated project management.
• Effective understanding of product marketing principles, desired.

Nice to Have

• Advanced degree(s) in business with strong sales or customer exposure.
• 5 years' experience in mining equipment business.
• Experience in cross-functional assignment(s).
• Professional registration and/or membership in committees and/or technical societies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree

Benefits & Perks

• Diverse and challenging work environment where you can grow your skills and career.
• Contribute to a sustainable, clean-energy future.