Product Manager (IOT / Wearables
Role & Responsibilities:
- The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating innovative products through a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods.
- You should also be frequently referring to best practices and the latest techniques in product management around discovery and scaling
- Dealing with Chinese ecosystems/suppliers is somewhat mandatory for the profile.
- Manage and drive the entire product development process, both internally and externally, ensuring all stakeholder timelines and deliverables are met.
- Leverage techniques such as personas, stakeholder maps, customer journey maps, customer lifecycle maps, and user story mapping to develop and refine new product concepts.
- Achieve product assortment goals while ensuring product quality and testing standards, as well as margin expectations, are met.
- Work closely with sales to understand directives for customer projects, analyze existing item sales and review new product forecasts.
- R&D on new products.
- Ordering, tracking, and updating warehouse and category team on status and progress.
- Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
- Anticipate unfavorable events through analysis of data and prepare control strategies.
- Solving issues and developing new solutions requiring new and innovative approaches.
- Balance both tactical execution with strategic initiatives necessary to drive cost reduction.
- Identifying, developing, and maintaining vendor base for obtaining timely procurement of materials at favorable terms to ensure smooth operations.
- Perform risk management regarding supply contracts and agreements.
- Managing & preparing performance reports and sharing the same with respective vendors and within the organization.
Ideal Candidate:
- Strong experience of 3-7 years in a product-based organization (Consumer Electronics will be a plus).
- Preferred background of BE / B.Tech(EEE, ECE, EIT only).
- MBA will be a value.
- Good knowledge about IoT, and Electronics concepts.
- Industry - Electronics
- Comfortable with understanding technical aspects of a product development process and communicating with engineering teams on trade-offs vs implications.
- Tenacious and Self-motivated with the ability to ruthlessly drive and achieve business goals.
- Exceptionally good at understanding business needs and brand vision.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and good at interacting with senior-level professionals.
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