Location : The position will be based in Hongkong/Taiwan

Reporting Relationship :General Manager

Education :A Bachelor degree or above. Mandatory fluency in written and spoken English and Mandarin.

Responsibilities:

• The Asia Overcurrent Product Marketing Manager will report directly to General Manager based in Chicago.

• He / she will be stationed in Hong Kong / Taiwan, primarily responsible for product sales growth, profitability management through pricing activities and cost reduction actions; and product line maintenance.

• The Asia Overcurrent Product Marketing Manager is the primary interface for the assigned product lines between the manufacturing and supply chain functions and the customer and sales organization.

• He / she needs to set and maintain worldwide pricing strategies for product lines including customer contract negotiations.

• The Asia Overcurrent Product Marketing Manager must be able to identify new product ideas based on customer applications and drive product development processes to deliver new products on time and on budget.

• He / she must be able to collect and analyze competitive data on product capability, sales, costs and key customers to maintain its product competitive position in the market; and to develop strategies to penetrate new customers and maximize capacity utilization.

• He / she also need to generate and maintain product data sheets, documents on ongoing production performance tests, as well as reports on product defect analysis in order to maximize customer satisfaction and minimize company’s liability and response costs.

• With regards to product development, the successful candidate must be able to develop and maintain a 5-year roadmap and provide financial and product proposals.

• He / she need to identify and drive cost reduction actions to maintain and improve product line profit including specification enhancements, yield improvements, identification of new sources, suppliers or locations and process improvements.

• He / she must be able to identify emerging market / applications for products in combination with regional and segment marketing and assist in the development in sales channels to gain access to influential customers.

• Other key functions of the Asia Overcurrent Product Marketing Manager include providing product training to external parties and internal departments, as well as working with Marcom for promotion activities.

Qualifications :

• The successful candidate will ideally be in his or her 30s to 40s with a degree in Engineering.

• He / she should ideally possess a minimum of five years experience in product marketing roles for similar or related products, as well as experience in dealing with manufacturing operations, customers, sales and distributors worldwide.

• The successful candidate must have proven track records in relevant functions and industries. The ability in conducting financial analysis for product marketing purposes is essential.

• The ideal candidate should be able to work independently under minimal supervision.

• He / she must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills in working across functions internally and be able to motivate others to ensure success of assigned product lines.

• The ideal candidate must be a self starter, analytical, detail-oriented, mature, aggressive and with strong business acumen.

• Since the Asia Overcurrent Product Marketing Manager will have a lot of interaction with other colleagues internally, fluency in spoken and written English is essential.