Job Description

This position is in Calabasas, CA

MAJOR FUNCTION: Plan, manage, and oversee the formulation of all short-term and long-term strategic objectives and business plans for SL Power’s standard product lines, including development of multi-generation product roadmaps, strategic pricing and price realization initiatives, leading stage-gate product development process, marketing enrichment activities, and executing opportunistic strategic partner development. Responsible for leading demand creation and product positioning activities across the sales organization to drive product lift, sales, profitability and market share while achieving strategic and financial objectives.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Develop and implement strategic plan for Standard product lines, including development of multi- generation product roadmaps and supporting business cases.

• Manage P&L for Standard product lines with a focus on achieving financial objectives. • Deploy and maintain product lifecycle management for the product line with a focus on product Vitality Index, and proactive prioritization of product development portfolio based on technology position, market and/or commercial position, time to maturity, associated risk and opportunity value. • Conduct voice of the customer (VoC) interviews through customer visits, industry association participation and competitive research, and feed identified market needs and benefits into point of views (PoV), product positioning, pricing strategy, product commercialization and launch strategies and product life cycle planning. • Manage and drive acceleration of NPI adoption agnostic of service channel (direct OEM, distribution channel, manufacturer’s representative) • Manage pricing bands for the product line with a focus on meeting price realization objectives. • Maintain current knowledge and expertise of product technologies, new product designs, competitor capabilities and practices, market conditions, and market channels.

• Develop and coordinate marketing programs and communications materials for all sales channels. • Travels in North America, Europe & Asia can represent 20% of work time.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: • Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree, esp. MBA, or equivalent business experience, preferred. • 3+ years of successful product development or product management experience, including voice of the customer, product road mapping, product development, preferably within the power supply or related electronics industry. • Experience and knowledge of Industrial & Medical markets • Technical understanding of power supplies or related products preferred.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to develop constructive and effective working relationships with a diverse cross-functional global internal and external teams. • Demonstrates strong business acumen, and an ability to balance strategic and tactical priorities, and short-term and long-term objectives. • Proficient in consultative selling approach and identifying latent customer and market needs. • Ability to distill and deliver complex messages to small or large audiences with an executive presence. • Possesses excellent communication skills, verbal and in writing, and can confidently interact on all levels in the customer or internal organization. • Can operate with high sense of urgency even in light of ambiguity & uncertainty and drive towards drives fact-based decisions. • Demonstrates a pattern of continuous improvement. • Highly effective time management and organizational skills.

LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS: DELIVERS RESULTS • Sets high standards of performance and consistently meets them FACT-BASED • Collects the relevant and appropriate data and makes actionable decisions/plans based upon this information CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT • Utilizes a lean process approach to continually improve the speed and effectiveness of all Company processes CUSTOMER FOCUSED • Puts top priority on understanding the needs, requirements, and expectations of the customer (external and internal) INTEGRITY • Operates at the highest level of ethical behavior and adheres to the Company's Code of Conduct IMPORTANCE OF PEOPLE • Effectively develops people and strengthens the organization TEAMWORK • Optimizes the value of collaboration across the Company, avoids NIH (Not-Invented-Here) syndrome, and shares ideas and best practices LEARNING AND INNOVATION • Rewards learning and self-improvement, embraces failures that enhance our knowledge and competitive position