• Gain insights of the East Asia and India Hydraulics market and consolidate for integration into global product line strategies, regional commercial strategies, and overall commercial success and leadership in the market. Includes tracking market trends, indices, and participating in industry organizations
• Maintain a view of the EA&I competitive landscape, identifying key players, authoring competitive profiles, and enabling competitive benchmarking assessments.
• Drive the progress of new production adoption and product line initiative KPIs and integration into the commercial plans - including tracking actual performance to targets.
• Provide input into the product roadmap based on market and application-driven needs and opportunities. Outline New Product Development projects with a scope and opportunity overview.
• Drive approved VAVE (Value Add / Value Engineering) projects to completion to gain cost and productivity savings for the product line - including supporting the validation of the savings realization.

• Contribute to demand planning by translating market indices and industry reports into projected business implications on end market performance.
• Evaluates, adjusts, and aligns cell-level Demand and Supply plans based on commercial initiatives, market conditions, and financial commitments.
• Identify, rationalize, optimize, and execute inter-company sourcing - balancing P&L, service level, and Working Capital considerations.
• Resolve high impact service level and quality issues that impact customer satisfaction and financial performance.
• Manage and action Excess & Obsolete (E&O) inventory.
• Provide insights and input into capacity requirements and documentation. Lead select Cap Ex investment justification and implementations.

• Provide field sales training on products, application criteria, and creating compelling value in the market.
• Resolve backlog situations with Sales & Operations Planning, Customer Experience, and Operations to achieve financial and other operating metrics.
• Capture VOC through participation in customer meetings, Distributor meetings, industry events, and engagement with field sales while engaging as a subject matter expert in customer and distributor meetings.
• Support evaluation of high value or strategic quote packages in terms of pricing and scenario planning around market conflicts.
• Lead the product line specific price increase evaluation and recommendations associated with inflation, 80/20 pricing action implementation, or targeted pricing actions.
• Execute the pricing and positioning strategy for New Product introductions at a regional level for commercialization.
• Lead catalog creation for regional market needs.
• Provide regional support for vertical market research, content creation, target identification, training and market insights for marketing campaigns.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams for local trade shows, industry associations, and standards bodies participation.

• Lead with an outside in mindset to place customers in the center of everything we do.
• Exemplify Gates ethics and core values to develop talents with right skills, knowledge and behavior,
• Advocate reward for performance to drive accountability for sustainable growth
• Design a contemporary and innovative learning environment to attract diverse talent pool.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Business or Marketing from an accredited institution required.
• Minimum of 5 years of product management or other relevant experience, preferably in a hydraulics environment

• High-level interpersonal and leadership skills; must be able to influence across multiple levels within the company and locations.
• Strategic mindset and strong business acumen.
• Independent thinker and self-motivated worker
• Organised, detail oriented, disciplined and of irreproachable integrity

• Extensive experience with Microsoft Excel and Power Point

• Fluency in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills