DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

This position is responsible to drive rapid, share-gaining growth in the Chinese motion market through developing an intimate understanding of Chinese customer needs, providing the critical input into China localization engineering efforts; assessing markets & opportunities; capturing/organizing Voice of the Customer (VoC); ideating with prospects and engineering teams; preparing financial analyses; and contributing to innovation process development motor/system design per customer/market requirements

• Initiate new business/product proposals, and if approved, develop the Business Case.
• Collaborate with engineering, product management, and customers to provide input at product review meetings and sales presentations.
• Maintain expertise on products and technologies through training and research.
• Develop/maintain Product Requirements Specification for assigned products.
• Identify opportunities for new products and translate product and feature characteristics into development parameters and functional specifications; Includes market research, competitive analysis and pricing.
• Monitor R&D projects related to assigned products and serve as marketing advisor on all matters relating to designated products.
• Provide sales support with targeting and closing sales opportunities, as well as on root cause and countermeasures as required.
• Assist in product management activities where capabilities and time, or project need exist.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

· Engineering background with MBA is preferred. Other Engineering Bachelor degrees may be accepted with equivalent successful technical product planning experience

· Minimum of 4 years in Product Management or equivalent with a proven track record of managing multiple assignments to successful completion. Over period of career, there must be a proven record of increasing responsibility and task complexity.

· Demonstrated experience identifying successful product opportunities.

· Highly computer skills (especially in Excel and PowerPoint).

· Excellent communication skills, fluent in Chinese and English.

· Previous significant participation on project teams with evidence of high performance ratings.

· Self-motivated. Able to work projects in an independent fashion.

· Domestic travel is required.

DB Talent is a European based recruitment company. Our Shanghai office opened in the 2001, and we have continually provided excellent professional service to our clients and candidates.