The Technology Manager is responsible for managing the Electrical Heaters technology through all aspects of the Product Lifecycle. TheTechnology Manager will work closely with the Solution Managers on one side and with supply chain, manufacturing and product development on the other side. The technology Manager will develop technology strategies, technology roadmaps and technical and commercial positioning of their specific product range in the market to assure product competitiveness.
The role is positioned in the Product Management – Product Portfolio Management (PRM PPM) team and covers the of the following activities:
Market Evaluation phase
Analyse the market (customers/competitors) and technology trends, collect and determine customer requirements, evaluate strategic and commercial business potential, derive product requirements, and determine product feature gaps and solutions to fill feature gaps.
Product Strategy phase
Develop a product range strategy (including business case and business plans) to respond to the market, the customer and the competitor situation. Derive and innovate product roadmaps within development budgets and available resources. Define and prioritise product performance and product quality improvement programs as required.
Define phase
Evaluate product requirements with key stakeholders i.e. Customers, Sales teams, Solution Managers, Development teams, Manufacturing Teams, Procurement etc) and develop competitive product requirements specifications. Support across business functions to deliver on the requirement specification.
Realise phase
Support the full product life cycle across the business. Support and guide new product developments or upgrades with Solution managers inputs. Support a wider business on production readiness.
Commercialize / Operate phase
Cooperate with sales & marketing and solution managers in planning of product launch measures (e.g. trade shows, press releases, brochures, pilots, technical articles etc). Coordinate product sales release (e.g. list prices, product master data, catalogues, presentations etc.) Support bids/proposals/negotiations.
Phase Out
Develop phase-out/replacement strategies. Align phase out aspects with sales/marketing/production/service/customers/procurement and lead product phase-out planning.
Product Safety - PSE
Technology Manager role is assigned the responsibility of Product Safety Expert (PSE) for their respective technology range. Responsible during product design and development stage to specify relevant Product Safety legislation, industry
standards and certifications.
Key Responsibilities & Duties:
The Technology Managers key responsibilities are:
• Develop deep technical knowledge of the product range, including product designs, manufacture and test methods. and customer applications.
• Innovate and maintain product roadmaps.
• Create and maintain Business Cases to define the most rewarding product development opportunities.
• Monitor market and perform technical/commercial analyses of competitor products.
• Supporting Sales and Bid teams where sales opportunities require product development, including Go/No-Go and Bid Approval processes, and customer meetings
• Develop relationships with our customers' Product Managers / Product Experts, to understand our customers' roadmaps and development plans.
• Communication of product related developments, product upgrades, issues, product bulletins, etc across local and regional business, global functions and also to customers.
• Produce product marketing literature, including presentations, flyers, catalogues, input into on-line product configurator.
• Identify product solutions to customer enquiries outside of 'business as usual', both directly with customers and supporting Application Engineering department
• Active participation in Change Management Network (transition new product from Product Development through to Full Sales Release and Production Release gates.
• Produce Product Requirement Specifications for all new product developments
• Maintain product Key Performance Indicators and product analysis, such as sales analysis, cost tracking, track records etc.
• Produce Product Bulletins
• Develop and maintain compliance matrices against international and industry specifications
• Co-ordinate, gather and validate market intel for all product related information, and competitor activity.
• Understand technology requirements for solution delivery
• Prepare and deliver technology roadmap in collaboration with Product Management - Product Development (PRM PD)
• Understand cost and competitive positioning
• Responsible for detail design and set priorities in collaboration with PRM PD
• Ensure standardization and harmonization
• Ensure quality standards and regulation adherence
Focus on: Cost / Technology / Quality / Standardization / Lifecycle
• General knowledge regarding MV power distribution, Switchgears, transformers.
• The inductive heater is a several MW device è good understanding of large power loads
• Ideally also good knowledge about process industries requiring heat and how that is traditionally done (e.g. with gas fired boilers)
• Heat transfer modelling & simulation and experience in fluid mechanics
• Equipment and instrumentation of test set up or pilot builds.
• Process validation and verification
• Have an active dialogue with supply chain management
o Make or buy decision
o Define qualified supplier landscape
o Benchmark of cost position of our portfolio
• Have an active dialogue with EAD factories
o Productification
o Manufacturability
o Testing facilities and procedures
o Quality control
• Align different requirements coming from different solutions / markets and set priorities