Asahi India Glass - Product Manager

About the job:

- Analyze the market situation by forecasting & future planning.

- Identify gaps through product benchmarking with competition.

- Analyze the product lifecycle of value-added products by studying trends across national & international markets .

- Prepare cost benefit analysis for new products.

- Emphasize on development of value-added products and make strategies to improve the sale of value-added products.

- Conduct meetings with different customer segments to know Voice of Customers.

- Conduct Primary & Secondary studies in order to estimate market demand for potential product/service/idea.

- Analyse the current product basket on a regular basis and , share critical insights and work with CFT'sto improve the product basket continuously for the business units.

- Drive conversions of insights into workable product ideas and suggest future road map of the product basket.

- Conduct competition benchmarking - product benchmarking, geographical mapping, Product-Price Mix etc. and suggest course correction wherever required.

- Study changes in government regulations & standards and generate new product/service ideas from the same

- Conduct various techno-commercial and market feasibility studies with CFTto ascertain selection of idea, define specification & prepare business plan (Sales Strategies, Customer Segments, Channel selection, Product Positioning, Price, USP, Competitor's product comparison)

- Attend Customer complaints related to products along with quality and service teams to understand product issues and derive actionable for product improvement.

- In conjunction with Sales & Marketing ensure availability of marketing collaterals & Sales Tools - Product Catalogue, Technical Data Sheet, Samples, Video etc. before the product launch.

- Prepare key project win and loss analysis and derive learnings & share the same with sales team for learning & development.

- Develop and implement a company-wide go-to-market plan by working with all departments to execute the new product introduction plan.

- Lead the cross-functional team - consisting of NPD, Sales, Marketing, Production, CSD ,Installation, MIS, Finance to ensure product readiness before launch within the specified timeline.

- Set KPI's for the new products and monitor the same for 6 months along with business/s and update the management on the performance w.t KPI.

- Identify and implement changes in Product/ Go to market for success.

- Take actions to phase out the products in matured stage.

- Identify training needs of sales & marketing staff through regular interactions and assist Head Product Management in identifying and finalizing training programs