Product Manager (New Product Development)

Job Summary: KMC Systems is expanding its product and service offerings to offer greater sustained value to our customers. To enable our value creation strategy, we are looking for a Product Manager responsible for developing our new offerings and drive their market penetration. The incumbent is expected to build clear understanding of market needs & trends, upcoming requirements and builds a stream of solutions to best position our current and future portfolio to deliver on revenue and margin expectations. This role will build upstream market understanding and align the global market penetration strategy and progress them through new product development stages to product launch. This individual is expected to build relationships with key opinion leaders within our current and potential strategic accounts, professional organizations and relevant internal functions, to enrich and strengthen the overall innovation agenda throughout the strategic plan horizon.     Responsibilities Champion development of end market growth strategies based on upstream fact-based analysis of market trends; competitive applications portfolios; technology advancements; and customer needs assessment and regulatory requirements Leads development and prioritization of focus segment applications that enable our solutions to be differentiated and value-add to our customers Architect technical support strategy to reflect market focused initiatives including establishing and managing collaborator agreements/relationships on global basis to drive market penetration Lead the development of best practices to develop effective value propositions and sales tools that are practical to use and aligned to segmentation and requirements Drive deployment of commercial sales tools and training to drive sales effectiveness at positioning our solutions Meets business and end market KPIs, such as revenue, margin expansion market penetration and share gain. Support the development of strategic planning initiatives, M&A due diligence and other new growth initiatives       Education, Experience & License or Certification Bachelor’s degree in engineering or sciences with 5 years’ experience. Successful track record in various roles within Sales, Marketing, Product Management or R&D related to software and/or electronics-based products or engineering services within regulated markets Experience in customer and market segmentation, creating portfolio roadmaps, robust business cases, and commercialization of solutions.       Skills and Abilities Ability to develop customer needs into solutions driving business growth Ability to travel up to 20%