Product Lifecycle Management support - Oil & Gas and Marine
Siemens
Job Description
Job ID
Company
Organization
Job Family
Experience Level
Full Time / Part Time
Contract Type
Looking for challenging role? If you really want to make a difference - make it with us
Can we energize society and fight climate change at the same time?
At Siemens Energy, we can. Our technology is key, but our people make the difference. Brilliant minds innovate. They connect, create, and keep us on track towards changing the world’s energy systems. Their spirit fuels our mission.
Our culture is defined by caring, agile, respectful, and accountable individuals. We value excellence of any kind. Sounds like you?
Siemens Energy is focused on helping customers navigate the world’s most pressing energy problems.
As a world leader in developing and producing the most advanced engineering technologies, we improve lives and further human achievements worldwide, while also protecting the climate - all thanks to our employees.
With us, you can do something significant that benefits society and human progress.
The Product Management Support (PMS) is responsible for supporting all aspects of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)function. The PMS will work closely with the Product Lifecycle Manager to support them in their role in developing product strategies, product roadmaps and technical and commercial positioning of their specific product range in the market to assure product competitiveness. The PMS role is considered a potential progression step towards PLM role.
The role is positioned in the PLM team and covers the support of the following PLM activities: -
Market Evaluation phase
Analyze the market (customers/competitors) and technology trends, collect and determine customer requirements, evaluate strategic and commercial business potential, derive product requirements, and determine product feature gaps and solutions to fill feature gaps.
Product Strategy phase
Develop a product range strategy (including business case and business plans) to respond to the market, the customer and the competitor situation. Derive and innovate product roadmaps within development budgets and available resources. Define and prioritize product performance and product quality improvement programs as required.
Define phase
Evaluate product requirements with key stakeholders i.e. Customers, Sales teams, Development teams, Production Teams, Procurement etc) and develop competitive product requirements specifications. Support across business functions to deliver on the requirement specification.
Realize phase
Support the full product life cycle across the business. Support and guide new product developments or upgrades with PLM inputs. Support a wider business on production readiness.
Commercialize / Operate phase
Cooperate with sales & marketing in planning of product launch measures (e.g. trade shows, press releases, brochures, pilots, technical articles etc). Coordinate product sales release (e.g. list prices, product master data, catalogues, presentations etc.) Support bids/proposals/negotiations.
Phase Out
Develop phase-out/replacement strategies. Align phase out aspects with sales/marketing/production/service/customers/procurement and lead product phase-out planning.
Product Safety - PSE
PLM role is assigned the responsibility of Product Safety Expert (PSE) for their respective product range. Responsible during product design and development stage to specify relevant Product Safety legislation, industry standards and certifications.
Your new role – challenging and future-oriented:
- Develop deep technical knowledge of the product range, including product designs, manufacture and test methods. And customer applications.
- Innovate and maintain product roadmaps.
- Create and maintain Business Cases to define the most rewarding product development opportunities.
- Monitor market and perform technical/commercial analyses of competitor products.
- Supporting Sales and Bid teams where sales opportunities require product development, including Go/No-Go and Bid Approval processes, and customer meetings
- Develop relationships with our customers’ Product Managers / Product Experts, to understand our customers’ roadmaps and development plans.
- Communication of product related developments, product upgrades, issues, product bulletins, etc across local and regional business, global functions and also to customers.
- Produce product marketing literature, including presentations, flyers, catalogues, input into on-line product configurator.
- Identify product solutions to customer enquiries outside of ‘business as usual’, both directly with customers and supporting Application Engineering department
- Active participation in Change Management Network (transition new product from Product Development through to Full Sales Release and Production Release gates.
- Produce Product Requirement Specifications for all new product developments
- Maintain product Key Performance Indicators and product analysis, such as sales analysis, cost tracking, track records etc.
- Produce Product Bulletins
- Develop and maintain compliance matrices against international and industry specifications
- Co-ordinate, gather and validate market intel for all product related information, and competitor activity.
We don’t need superheroes, just super minds:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering. Alternatively, demonstrable experience is considered in the absence of a formal qualification.
- Experience in mechanical or electrical product engineering preferred. Experience in subsea industry is preferred.
- Experience in Product Management/Innovation planning or Project Management is beneficial, but not mandatory.
- Good understanding of product sales, product innovation cycles, product engineering and manufacturing operations, associated business departments/functions and business processes.
- Other Competency as below
- Mandatory
- Technical and market knowledge in applicable product range.
- Entrepreneurial and Strategic thinking - Decision-making ability.
- Professional and self-motivated Team player.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with internal
- and external senior stakeholders.
- Ability to design and deliver effective informal and formal presentations to individuals, and groups at all levels
- Confident to make decisions through evaluating all relevant data to reach
- an unbiased, logical conclusion with minimal supervision.
- Must be able to work autonomously with minimal supervision.
- Exceptional organizational skills with ability to multi-task and work under
- pressure to tight deadlines.
- To challenge assumptions and generate imaginative and innovative
- ideas.
- Awareness of the impact of your own behavior on others and to modify your behavior as
- appropriate to achieve results.
- Optional
- Competent with MS Excel.
- Ability to create basic GAANT charts using MS Project.
- Ability to utilize Teamcenter.
- Ability to utilize SAP.
- Ability to utilize Sales Force
We’ve got quite a lot to offer. How about you?
This role is based at Site (Gurgaon). You’ll also get to visit other locations in India and beyond, so you’ll need to go where this journey takes you. In return, you’ll get the chance to work with teams impacting entire cities, countries – and the shape of things to come.
We’re Siemens. A collection of over 379,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Bring your curiosity and imagination and help us shape tomorrow.