Product Line Manager, Gorilla Glass

Requisition Number: 69316

 

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Corning’s businesses are ever evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, and automotive markets. We are changing the world with: 

• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
• Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
• Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences 
•  Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation 

Position Purpose

As a Product Line Manager (PLM), you will be responsible for developing and executing a product line strategy that supports the achievement of sales and profitability targets for the Gorilla Glass business.  This role will collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders to enable sales of cover glass for touch-enabled laptops. This includes engaging in decisions on defining what products to develop and offer, building value proposition and selling tools, assisting with forecasting, and serving as a key collaborator with the Gorilla Glass commercial, finance, manufacturing, quality, and engineering organizations for day-to-day operations. As an individual contributor this role leads a cross-functional product team consisting of functional leads from Development, Product Engineering, Applications Engineering, Manufacturing, Marketing and/or Sales.

Requirements

• Master’s in business administration  
• Experience working in an analytical, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, or financial setting  
• Strong analytical skills with ability to turn quantitative analysis into meaningful business insights
• Self-starter, capable of fully owning a complex strategy project with limited supervision
• Demonstrated track record of managing projects and leading multi-functional teams as an individual contributor
• Demonstrated self-confidence, ability to effectively communicate and influence senior management
• Demonstrated ability to interface and work in teams with people across functional and geographic boundaries

Responsibilities

• Develop and articulate value propositions that improve margins for Corning’s products and enable new/enhanced selling opportunities with customers
• Work with Program Management to develop and launch new products
• Develop the product roadmap and manage the product line through the stages of innovation, from product concept through commercialization and life-cycle management
• Understand downstream market requirements and assess competitive threats and implications for the product line
• Address new product/special requests by developing a business case (including P&L and balance sheet implications) to determine the feasibility and pricing requirements
• Work with Manufacturing and Sales to identify opportunities to reduce complexity and cost reduction in the manufacturing process both at Corning plant(s) and the customer site, as appropriate.
• Manage the obsolescence process, as necessary, to extract maximum value through the end of the product lifecycle
• Provide and maintain necessary sales tools such as positioning statement, value proposition presentation, and other sales tools to customer-facing organizations to ensure effective deployment of product line strategies