Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals - Product Manager - Solar Lighting

Job Description for Product Manager - Solar Lighting

Location - Mumbai

The Product Management function is a pivotal function as it sits at the intersection of lighting expertise, technology and business needs to bring transformational products to market. In this role, you will be responsible business strategy as well as lifecycle management of products.

You will be required to work closely with the BU leadership, Technology, Purchase and Business Development team to develop lighting products for solar application, working with end customer for approval, establishing integrator ecosystem and deliver as per customer requirement. It will also involve working closely with our client facing teams and end-customers for implementation of proofs of concept projects, gathering insights and planning future product development.

Job Description

- Understanding current market for solar and developing product strategy and developing suitable roadmap

- Identify market requirements, translate them into product requirements, and collaborate with technology, quality, operations & support teams to drive execution

- Ensure that features are correctly scoped, designed, built and launched on time

- Responsible for product launch with necessary communication support

- Ongoing product support, enhancements and life cycle management for existing products

- Work with business development team to propagate the use of products

- Monitor execution against both the roadmap and on business commitments

- Responsible for top line and bottom line for the segment

- Managing pricing for projects and offering innovative solutions

- Presentations to architects, consultants and end customer explaining the product positioning and differentiation.

- Product training of stakeholders viz, sales team, distributors of features and positioning.

Skills & Experience

- Electrical or Electronics Engineering. MBA will be preferred.

- Domain expertise of Min 6-10 yrs in solar related products - knowledge of product management methods and tools used in translating needs into features and benefits.

- Min 3-5 yrs experience on product management

- Result oriented mindset to achieve business targets

- Focussed approach in understanding and developing profitable strategies

- Ability to work with cross functional teams.

- Awareness of trends in the market related to new emerging technology

- Strong technical , Process and problem solving proficiency.

- Unparalleled attention to detail, multitasking and organizational capacity.

- Demonstrated business acumen, and cross collaboration capabilities.

- Ability to set and deliver on priorities and deal with a degree of ambiguity.

- A solid grasp of Product management skills.

- Exceptional interpersonal and communications capabilities.