Director Semiconductor Business Development & Product Management

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Job Description:

Identify, shape and commercialise future HPQ growth opportunities across semiconductor and selected adjacent applications. The role owns the strategic opportunity portfolio from market insight through customer validation and commercial scale-up, while connecting customer, application, T&I, operations and strategic-account perspectives into a coherent product and market roadmap.

·         Develop granular market, application and customer segmentation across crucibles, fused-quartz consumables, clean thermal quartzware, advanced packaging and selected adjacent applications.

·         Identify share-gain, competitive-displacement, new-customer, new-qualification and new-product opportunities with clear strategic rationale.

·         Translate semiconductor trends including AI infrastructure, advanced memory, HBM, smaller nodes and process-step intensity into implications for HPQ demand and specifications.

·         Maintain explicit defend, accelerate, selective-growth and explore priorities, including clear no-go areas where HPQ lacks a sustainable advantage.

·         Own an integrated opportunity portfolio covering near-term business development, medium-term new product development and long-term future platforms.

·         Establish quantified business cases with target customers, volume, revenue, margin, investment, probability, qualification path, risks and decision gates.

·         Run stage-gate reviews and recommend resource allocation, acceleration, redesign or termination based on evidence.

·         Ensure opportunities move from strategic concept to accountable owner, customer validation, qualification and commercialisation.

·         Build relationships across equipment OEMs, quartz fabricators, wafer and crucible producers, foundries, memory manufacturers, research institutes and industry consortia.

·         Create joint-development, validation and technology-access partnerships where external capabilities accelerate market entry.

·         Coordinate senior-level engagement with strategic ecosystem participants and convert discussions into defined work programmes.

·         Use ecosystem insight to anticipate specification shifts, qualification requirements, substitution risks and emerging applications.

·         Own the semiconductor product and application roadmap jointly with Application Engineering and T&I.

·         Define customer need, target application, value proposition, technical requirements, launch criteria and commercial positioning for new grades.

·         Prioritise product-development resources against strategic attractiveness, technical feasibility, customer pull and expected value creation.

·         Recommend portfolio simplification, product repositioning or sunset decisions where complexity does not create customer or financial value.

·         Develop go-to-market plans, target-account logic, pricing architecture, qualification strategy and launch governance for new offerings.

·         Partner with Strategic Account Sales on initial customer engagement and transfer mature opportunities with clear ownership and success criteria.

·         Produce Board and ExCo-ready market, competitor, portfolio and investment analyses.

·         Provide structured intelligence on competitors, alternative materials, regional dynamics, customer expansions and technology-roadmap changes.

·         Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred in Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Business or a related discipline.

·         MBA or equivalent strategic-commercial experience is advantageous.

·         Typically 10 to 15 years of relevant experience in semiconductor materials, semiconductor equipment, quartzware, specialty materials or another technically demanding B2B value chain.

·         Proven track record in business development, product management, strategic marketing or technical-commercial leadership.

·         Demonstrated ability to create new growth opportunities, build investment cases, manage a portfolio and move opportunities through qualification to revenue.

·         Experience engaging customers and partners across multiple levels, from engineering and procurement to senior executives.

·         Strong understanding of long qualification cycles, specification ownership, ecosystem dependencies and switching barriers.

·         Semiconductor equipment, materials, components, wafer, quartzware or high-purity specialty-material sectors.

·         Roles combining technical market knowledge with commercial ownership, rather than generalist sales alone.

·         Experience operating across Asia, Europe and North America is strongly preferred.

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