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Job Summary:
Panasonic Avionics Corporation is the leading provider of inflight entertainment products and is seeking a Sr. Director for Product Management in their Technical Services Business. The role involves developing services business models, managing product lifecycles, and leading teams to enhance product offerings and market positioning.
Responsibilities:
• Partners with executive business leaders to define and optimize product line strategy that positions PAC as a technology differentiator in the market.
• Responsible for leading multiple teams of product managers within the product line to define product offering (make/buy/partner), positioning, product competitive analysis, technology/product roadmap, business cases, value pricing, Go-To-Market plan across the targeted market segments.
• Leads multiple product teams within the product line to develop, decompose, and allocate product requirements (technical and non-technical) to cross-functional teams.
• Provides sales collaterals to Sales and Accountment teams. Partners to develop channel strategy and channel effectiveness metrics.
• Establish effective measurements and continuous improvement operating process at product line level to manage integrated product lifecycle performance, product quality/delivery/reliability, cost reduction, obsolescence, and strategic resource allocation.
• Partners with Product Management Process leader to mature Product Management roles in cross-functional decision making, such as, pricing, make/buy, R&D prioritization, design reviews, manufacturing reviews, supplier qualification, IP protection, IP licensing, M&A.
• Works with Program Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing to improve cost estimate accuracy, identify opportunities for productivity improvement, and drive for insertion of innovative effective design/certification methodologies. Escalate issues when necessary.
• Responsible for organization development, employee performance, succession planning, and strategic workforce planning.
• Conducts frequent and effective employee communications. Takes initiatives to improve employee engagement, promote diversity, enhance compliance culture.
• Spends time to identify, develop, and mentor talents. Work with employees to develop individualized career development plan. Continuously improves teams’ performance, retention, and positive attitude.
• Other tasks when assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• A change agent who has demonstrated success in leading sizeable teams through transformation.
• An integrative thinker who is effective at making decisions with seemingly conflicting information, in a matrix operating structure.
• A situational leader who balances driving results and developing people at different situations.
• An influential leader who learns all the time, embraces diversity, communicates effectively, collaborates across functions, drives results aggressively.
• An analytical thinker who is able to organize data into logical fashion, and present insights in concise way to business leaders.
• An executive business leader who understands MRO/services, IFEC and/or Digital Aviation market trends, business models; has demonstrated success in product positioning, go-to-market plan, value pricing, product/technology roadmap, competitive strategy, new product launch, financial analysis (income, cash flow), and business valuation.
• A lead-by-influence practitioner who is good at driving cross-functional project teams to meet demanding cost/schedule/scope objectives.
• A global growth champion who embraces listening to customers and is skillful of translating customer needs.
• A technologist who understands and innovates in dependable computing, networking, software architecture, analytics; has dealt with at least 2 different products.
• Strong executive presence.
• Highest level of integrity, honesty, and credibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Marketing with 15+ year working experience in Aviation (or relevant), Digital industries.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in strategic marketing, product marketing, product management, or business development.
• Minimum 8 years of employee management experience.
Preferred:
• MBA degree preferred.
• Experience as the Head of Product Management is preferred.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in the IFEC industry preferred.
• Familiar with IFEC or avionics airplane installation projects, airline operations and/or electronics manufacturing preferred.
• Deep knowledge of airplane Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul as well as post production Services is preferred.
• Familiarity with Pragmatic Marketing and Agile development is preferred.
Company:
For 40 years, Panasonic Avionics has strengthened the connection between the world’s airlines and their passengers. Founded in 1979, the company is headquartered in Lake Forest, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.