Product Manager

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Sasakami Product Manager – ST Litho business, DuPont E&I

DuPont Litho within the DuPont Electronics & Industrial Business has a Product Manager opening in Sasakami, Japan. Product manager will be responsible for supporting new product development efforts as well as existing product stewardship for Litho’s Sasakami based portfolio. 

Job Responsibilities:

New Product Development Management:

- Interface with Product Development Teams (R&D, Eng, EHS, Quality, Manufacturing) to provide commercial input (customer requirements, cost targets, demand, timing etc.) and execute other commercial PDP activities.

- Establish costing models for new product introductions.

- Review / approve sample requests in appropriate database. Follow up to ensure timely delivery.

- Manage product availability during product scale-up to support more extensive customer sampling, testing and qualification. 

- Support Marketing Segment Managers globally in promotional and sales training activities.

- Establish relevant marketing packages for different stages of the product development cycle.

- Prepare Stage Gate documents and represent business case at gate meetings.

Existing Product Maintenance:

- Manage lifecycle of existing product lines.

- Determine business need for continuous improvement, product consolidation and/or obsolescence.

- Set priority for all CIP activities in a product line.

- Manage profitability of new and existing product lines. Validate / revise standard cost for existing products based on plant costing models (labor rates vs tank time, overhead allocations etc.)

- Work with Engineering and Manufacturing to identify cost savings opportunities, e.g. raw material cost reductions, manufacturing efficiencies etc…

- Provide Marketing input (current and future business needs) to support Demand /Supply Planning, Asset Utilization, Manufacturing Footprint Optimization, and resource investment.

- Support Marketing Segment Managers in promotional and sales training activities.

- Provide marketing support to product stewardship team for periodic product risk review.

Interaction:

Product Manager will interact on a frequent basis with the following roles:

- Sales Managers

- Research and Development (R&D)

- Design / Development Engineering (DE)

- Quality

- Integrated Operations (Supply Chain / Manufacturing)

- Customers as required

- PSR team as needed.

Qualifications:Education Required:

Bachelor’s degree (Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or Technical related field) is required

Experience Required

- Prefer minimum 5 years+ of experience in Lithography business.

- Litho product / process knowledge

- Demonstrated decisive leadership

- Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills

- Creative, analytical and problem-solving minded

- Must be detail oriented, motivated and able to meet deadlines

- Ability to work cross-functionally to achieve results

- Experience using SAP/BW Reports is a plus

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