Our team in Haag, Switzerland is looking for you:

Head of Product Management Motion and Bellows

YOUR CHALLENGES 
 

• Owns the overall business strategy development, mid-to-long term planning, budgeting, sales projections and profit and loss results in line with corporate and Business Units targets.
• Drives market and competitive intelligence (market-size, market requirements, market share, customer share of wallet, technology trends, etc.) as a base to draft respective strategies and short- to mid-term measures to remain competitive and growing market share.
• Assigns, allocates, and develops resources with regular prioritization and communication to the stakeholders to achieve business results.
• Leads the product management and directs the engineering team to achieve business unit goals.
• Actively drives engagement within the teams and proactively garners support from other matrix functions such as core tech, BU engineering, operations and quality.
• Continuously monitors and improves the product development process enhancing efficiencies.
• Defines and manages the product portfolio and roadmaps as to set clear cost and time goals for core tech, BU engineering, operations and quality.
• Interacts actively with VAT innovation groups, such as corporate R&D and other BUs to foster innovation and share platforms in products and technology.
• Supports operations to release the supply chain for the owned products.
• Interacts actively with sales to monitor and drive the business results.
• Interacts actively with quality striving for a zero-defect culture.
• Incorporates company standards of excellence into daily work to foster a total quality environment and demonstrate personal commitment to excellence.
• Defines the minimum requirements and the totality of the offerings, identifying the synergies across portfolio and drives with head of engineering the platform development.
• Supported by legal counsels manages contracts, such as NDA, JDA, etc.

YOUR COMPETENCIES 

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in engineering related science.
• Fluent business English skills written and spoken.
• Profound project management skills in an international acting company.
• Strong communication skills and ability to effectively communicate in customer escalations.
• Experience in product management within highly differentiated industrial businesses.
• Knowledge of the practical application of product life cycle management.
• Strong entrepreneurship and strategic thinking.
• Solid experience in managing international projects.
• Account Management experience.
• Know-how of Semiconductor market or extensive experience in vacuum industry.
• Management experience in leading teams at the professional level.
• Willingness to travel 20-25%