NPD Program Manager SP

Purpose of the Role :

• Continuously understand customers, markets, competition in respective geographies  to develop products in the relevant product segments towards business growth and profitability & Lay down customer facing product requirement
• Managing the life cycle of the products through Long term product planning
• Deliver New Product achieving Q,C,D targets for the customer segments
• Deliver Upgrades, Variants and Refreshes to enhance customer delight and hence improve  market share & profitability.

Role Description

1. Responsible for Business objectives (customer delight, New product volume and profitability)  in the respective segment2.Deliver hit products - new products upgrades refresh meeting volume and profitability targets3. Monitor the industry trends in the respective markets with respect to technology and regulation4. Understand the customer needs , life style trends including latent needs of the customers5. Continuous tracking of competitor products and forecast  the future competition
6. Creation of  rolling product plan by thorough understanding of customers, industry , competition and technology ladder.7. Drive & implement ENGG changes which are agreed with stakeholders8. Improve product competitiveness through points mentioned in #3 - 59. Resolve bottlenecks / Risks in product delivery (in terms of QCD) & achieve production ramp up

10. Review projects periodically & help team to achieve QCD targets