Assistant Product Line Manager

Corning•City of Corning, NY

4d•$100,646 - $138,388•Onsite

About The Position

Corning is a world leader in glass, ceramic, and materials science, known for its innovation across various industries. This role supports the development and execution of a product line strategy to achieve sales growth and profitability objectives for the CET P&L. The company emphasizes the impact employees can make, connecting the unconnected, driving automotive advancements, transforming entertainment, and ensuring the delivery of medicines. Corning's diverse business areas include life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, automotive, and solar markets.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or science
3+ years of business experience in commercial, strategy, engineering or technical areas
Knowledge of marketing, business analysis and commercial operations
Well organized, process oriented, and has systematic approach to problem solving
Demonstrated track record of leading multinational teams and managing projects

Nice To Haves

MBA or equivalent desired
Financial analysis and accounting experience
Experience managing people
Work experience in manufacturing, engineering, and/or development
Work experience in a strategy group
International work experience
Participation in, or leadership of, multicultural and/or multi-geographic project
Previous product management experience
Knowledge/familiarity with the automotive industry
Strong business acumen and analytical skills, able to turn quantitative analysis into meaningful business insights
Ability to manage business relationships using combination of data driven analysis, strategic thinking, networking and strong interpersonal skills
Demonstrated ability to interface and team with people across functional and geographic boundaries
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to define and set a strategic vision and path forward
Ability to work independently, efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced working environment

Responsibilities

Develop market insights through strategic assessments of the market, customers, competitors, and CET capabilities.
Create effective product line vision, strategy, critical projects, roadmaps, and plans.
Help define next gen product requirements and champion those projects.
Drive cross functional teams to deliver the strategy and product line P&L goals.
Provide and maintain sales tools (e.g. value proposition presentation, product offering) to customer-facing organizations to ensure effective deployment of product line strategy.
Interpret customer needs and provide key input/decision for capacity planning through forecasting and demand management process; manage priorities and constraints; optimize short term demand/supply, monitor inventory and SLOB.
Establish product pricing strategies and manage requests below strategy.
Deliver timely, effective maintenance of business support required of customers across functional organizations.
Monitor Product Line Performance and lead/support business process improvements.