About the Role

The successful candidate will ultimately be responsible to develop and drive the strategy, roadmap and product development activities of a complete product line within the Harman Home Audio business unit. This will include market analysis, competitive analysis, Harman Value Proposition creation, specification of the line, full financial ownership including detailed ROI to justify key project investment; technological understanding of the entire category and ecosystem and ultimately the ability to be market / customer responsive by presenting their line to the regions / markets in a manner that is clearly commercial and supportive.

Your Team

The Director, GPLM will report to Senior Director, Product Planning & Strategy, BU Home Audio

What You Will Do

• Defines portfolio strategy for Home Audio products for all major lines of business including soundbars and home speakers.

• Manages all Global Product Line Manager activities to drive New Product Introductions for Home Audio portfolio.

• Focuses on new business development activities to integrate new technologies and trends into the product innovation pipeline.

• Plays integral role in defining innovation pipeline for New Technology Introduction into product portfolio. Facilities critical link between Harman’s R&D resources (CTC, ATG, H&M NTI) and GPLMs.

• Drive leadership in category by defining meaningful product DIFFERENTIATION and being very strict in what we choose to leave out of a product spec. (including compelling services and strategy).

• Presenting your product plan and Harman Value Proposition in a manner that is consumer friendly, market realistic, creative and ultimately compelling.

• In-depth knowledge in home audio product category - market trend, competition and technology

• Being at the forefront of technological trends and implications. This includes key platform architecture tradeoffs and maximizing the Harman advantage

• Strong P&L skills. Can develop an ROI business case with total confidence. Good judgment skills in determining the balance of what we specify with what we get in financial return.

• Solid awareness of global retail markets and what it takes to get your product placed with key retail partners

• Have an international perspective that looks for creative ways to make meaningful rapid growth breakthroughs with our portfolio in key Harman international markets

• Connect well with regional commercial colleagues. Be responsive to their needs and provide information to them that is immediately useful.

• Connect well with Program management and engineering teams making sure that the required product concept gets turned into actual detailed product requirement document.

• Develop together with Brand Management teams the Marketing Plan and go to market strategy for key “hero” launches from your category.

• Define product use case and experience for our target consumers.

• Master the entire lifecycle process in particular strong project management skills to make sure initial product creation milestones happen on time to enable successful product launches in appropriate regional Introduction windows.

• Work as a team player in all Product Development activities outside your specific responsibility.

What You Need

• Strong product management experience in electronic industry

• Good market commercial track record

• Innovator. Driver of meaningful differentiation

• Strong Technical competence to influence and maximize product architecture decisions

• Have launched multiple products into the market and understand the keys to making them successful

What is Nice to Have

• Leadership:

Demonstrate character, clarity, courage and commitment to high-performance

Build environment of trust, high performance and engagement by establishing clear goals and a commitment to feedback, development and recognition

• Change Orientation:

Champion a better, faster and simpler way of doing things

Apply original thinking and continuous improvement to processes, products, systems or services and manage change to better serve customer needs

• Collaboration:

Connect, engage and communicate with others

Encourage open expression of ideas; communicate effectively at all levels and build strong relationships

• Judgment:

Make sound decisions

Demonstrate critical thinking to take appropriate risk and make sound and timely decisions

• Results-Driven:

Deliver extraordinary results

Take initiative to achieve superior, quality results against internal or external standards of excellence