AS A Senior Product Planner, YOU WILL:
• Run stage-gate governance for new product development programs.
• Work with product marketing and design engineering to freeze product scope. Own the scope baseline and chair change control at each gate.
• Build and manage the integrated master schedule; drive critical-path analysis, dependencies, and recovery plans.
• Drive risk / issue management; conduct project risk mitigation, escalate with decision options and impact analysis.
• Leads cross-functional program teams across regions; integrate vertical, regional and global perspectives to maintain strategic alignment.
• Align execution within multiple function teams and across the full lifecycle (Concept, Plan, Design, Validate, Launch).
• Manage program financials and business case realization.
• Manage regular program operations and execution reviews; provide executive-ready dashboards and decision memos.
• Facilitate cross function teams to support customer samples in new product development stage.
• Manage product hierarchy & nomenclature and integrate global and regional perspectives.
• Support Product Marketing/Technical sales/Engineering/Quality teams to implement product derivations and design improvement.
• Support product marketing/engineering for external marketing promotion, product profitability review and cost reduction plan.