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As the largest crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar module manufacturer in the world, Suntech is a rapidly growing organization. We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated Product Manager to join our San Francisco, California headquarters.
This position will be a key role on the Global Product Management team, supporting North America Sales and Marketing functions to drive sales and demand higher margins through differentiation. This role serves as the liaison between Product Management and North America teams to provide market information, competitive intelligence/positioning, & guidance on product specifications and performance. This role is also engaged closely with customers, providing technical product support as well as collecting and analyzing feedback toward the evolution of Suntech’s product strategy.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as a technical expert for Suntech's product line and prepare the related US product strategy in future to meet corporate objectives
- Responsible for product lifecycle management in US region
- Identify key US customer and market requirements and translate them into detailed market/product requirement documents
- Conduct product research on competitor's product offering and prepare competitiveness analysis with Suntech product for US market
- Act as the key communication channel for US regional sales & customer and corporate product management / engineering function
- Able to communicate clearly with related departments on customer's requirements
- Work closely with cross-functional global team in various projects
- Manage key technical documents for related products, conduct product training and prepare product marketing tools
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in physics or electrical engineering (MBA preferred) or Bachelor's in business with 4-5 years experience in semiconductor or other high-tech industry marketing experience
- Strong preference for experience in solar PV industry or semiconductor industry
- Experience acting as the key product technical representative internally to Sales, Engineering, R&D, etc. as well as to the press, at trade shows, and at major media events
- Experience giving technical presentations
- Market research experience in the areas of competitive analysis and product feature/benefit analysis
- Experience managing the full product lifecycle with heavy interdepartmental communication (engineering, manufacturing, management, sales/marketing, etc.)
- Bilingual (Chinese & English) will be preferred.
ABOUT SUNTECH
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP) is the world's largest producer of solar panels for residential, commercial, industrial, and utility applications. With regional headquarters in China, Switzerland, and the United States, and gigawatt-scale manufacturing worldwide, Suntech has delivered more than 13,000,000 photovoltaic panels to thousands of customers in more than eighty countries. Suntech's pioneering R&D creates customer-centric innovations that are driving solar to grid parity against fossil fuels. Suntech's mission is to provide everyone with reliable access to nature's cleanest and most abundant energy source.
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