Product Manager

• Essential Functions

• Responsibility for overall results of assigned product lines or business portfolio, principally revenue growth and margin expansion targets.
• Exhibits Danaher values as a leader in championing the Business Unit to external customers/partners and internal customers, including the sales force, global BU team, marketing team; drives the realization of key opportunities in the sales funnels for the product portfolio.
• Actively and effectively manages assigned product lines, including pricing, new product development and launches, product phase-out, enhancement and optimization, so as to increase sales and margins, improve quality and reduce inventory.
• Owns assigned product lines’ Action Plan, Key Performance Indicators, Problem Solving Process and Counter Measures related to Policy Deployment, including, driving to root cause, assisting / challenging countermeasures and action plans, etc.; leads Policy Deployment activities for the product line.
• Develops clear and structured analysis based on understanding of market trends, customer insights, competitive dynamics and regulations, supporting longer-term strategic plans and product innovation roadmap; this analysis must also be translatable to impactful actions
• Leads creation, execution and analysis of Voice-Of-Customer plans; links prioritized customer needs in price/performance on product lines with focus on future product requirements including enhancements and break through, taking into account current and future competitive landscape.
• Teaches others to use the Danaher Development System and plays a critical role reviewing tollgate documents; proactively identifies any issues in keeping the project moving forward and coaches the team through managing.
• Owns the prioritization, understanding, and delivery of margin opportunities across the product line (including pricing, cost reduction, and quality improvement)
• Delivers training to external (customers, distributors, etc) and internal (sales, marketing etc) stakeholders on assigned product lines
• Collaborates with global BUs in championing China market requirements and launching global products in China
• Champions DBS within the business unit including initiating meaningful and sustainable kaizen events to achieve the business unit objectives.
• Works with the applications manager to identify, prioritize, define, and commercialize possible applications
• Performs other duties as required.

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  Education, Background and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from reputable university in a technical or business field, MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in product development or business management (e.g. Marketing, Product Management, Business Development)
• Pricing and business model development experience.
• Data analytics, data science experience – nice to have.
• Capable of working cross-functionally through Leadership by Influence
• Track record in driving commercial results in technical B2B industry, working with the sales force and channel partners
• Proven project management experience in product innovation and commercial initiatives
• Water Quality industry, application, product and technology experience is nice to have
• High energy, proactive, people-oriented and results-oriented approach to work and learning
• Effective personal time management and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
• Languages: Chinese (fluent), Written English (fluent), Spoken English (good)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint

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  Critical Competencies / Leadership Anchors

• Ability to quickly establish significant credibility, trust and support with all levels of the organization and customers
• Gets things done globally with high integrity working through ambiguous conditions
• Ability to manage relationships, deliverables, and expectations cross-functionally
• Positive, “We will win” attitude
• Approaches work with a strong sense of owner ship, commitment and urgency
• Customer and commercial orientation
• Team player
• Self-motivated and self-driven

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Information

• Location: Shanghai, China

Industry experience

Education: Bachelor

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Years of experience: 5 to 10 years

Taxonomy

• Product Management