Electronic Specialty Gases Product Manager

Principal Responsibilities :

• Strategy Development - Leads the overall development of product strategies for ESG to achieve revenue and profitability target.
• Strategy Execution - Support growth targets through executing effective commercial, marketing/ product & channel strategies. Drives initiatives and planning efforts to maximize growth and margin performance.
• Price Management - Monitor product costs and profit performance of product lines, Identifies pricing opportunities, and tracks implementation of key pricing initiatives or targets against plan
• Product Management- Develop product strategies with alignment with Global electronic team. Source and secure products to achieve LGS ESG growth agenda.
• Monitors sales and margin performance at the country level on a monthly basis. Identifies deviations and delivers mitigation plans to improve product/portfolio performance. Identifies product opportunities by customers & ensure optimization of product portfolio
• Competitor Monitoring - Understand local & regional competitor strengths and weaknesses (share, cost positions etc.) and expected/typical behavior.
• Capability Development - Align demands against supplier/LGS warehouse/intercompany capacity and predict shortages/surplus situation, initiate and lead investment case prior to shortfall.
• Product Stewardship - Lead coordinator of CPR process and ensure full sign off in LIDAP by regional team. Coordinate with each stakeholder to ensure all queries are properly documented.
• Technical Competency - Improve technical competencies by supporting ESG training for Sales representatives. Provides relevant commercial and technical competency development.
• Product cost management - Lead negotiation against inter-companies and suppliers to achieve maximum profitability for LGS.
• Coordinate between supplier, intercompany, procurement and supply Chain to conclude and sign off final product profit analysis so that sales can offer to customers.
• Package strategy - Develop package strategies (Rent vs buy), develop business case and obtain best profitable outcome for Sales team.
• Asset management - Lead and execute asset maintenance program.
• Projects - Manage special ESG projects effectively to ensure maximum return for LGS.

Required Qualifications/Experience :

• Typically 5+ years experience in Sales, Marketing/Product Management and/or Business Planning
• Minimum 5-10 years experiences working in the ESG/Semiconductor industry
• Related experience and knowledge of Electronic specialty gases or chemicals.
• Awareness of Global product suppliers and their capabilities.
• Qualified degree preferably with a Chemical and/or engineering background
• Marketing Degree or equivalent experience.