Purpose of Role

Own the product portfolio by driving lifecycle, profitability, and roadmap to deliver customer-focused solutions and accelerate time-to-market through strategic leadership.

YOUR CHALLENGES 

•    Own the responsibility for VAT's Isolation Valves product series.
•    Manage your valves product life cycle during all phases.
•    Initiate product relocations and ensure associated customer approval 
•    Monitor and optimize profitability of product lines and relentlessly drive down cost. 
•    Own the interface to sales teams and customers for all technical aspects in defined markets.
•    Coordinate simultaneous developments of multiple product solutions according to customer requests and product roadmap.
•    Implement value pricing and value propositions.
•    Cooperate with all BU’s of VAT to take advantage of synergies in product offering to ADV customers.
•    Identify market trends and technical roadmaps of customers to derive needs for adaptation of VAT’s product offering.
•    Support the sales entities of VAT group in product training, customer acquisition, product presentations and negotiations.
•    Establish technical customer documentation like manuals and product data sheets according to applicable regulatory requirements.

YOUR COMPETENCIES 

•    Degree in science or engineering. A good know how of mechanical and electrical systems and/or vacuum experience preferred.
•    Additional degree in economics and / or marketing or successful record of accomplishment in a commercial or customer facing position.
•    Fluent in English, ability to negotiate in speaking and writing.
•    Strong experience in managing international customers and projects on a global scale.
•    Powerful entrepreneur mindset and strategic thinking.
•    Ability to identify market developments and derive requirements that influence the future valve business.
•    Experience in product management is preferred.