PRODUCT PLANNER
Business Area: Hardware Manufacturing Ops, Design Center, and UX
Job Purpose/Mission/Summary:
The Product Planner is part of a highly cross functional team spanning across Lexmark’s business functions that include R&D, Portfolio Management, Supply Chain, Professional Services, Sales, and Marketing to drive Lexmark’s brand and product life cycle.
A successful candidate enables successful product delivery through organizational leadership and information management, starting from product conceptualization until release.
Growth opportunities:
- Technical knowledge of the development processes in the entire product development life cycle.
- Enable successful delivery to customers through efficient and effective information management.
- Visibility to global program development and participation in various decision-making discussions with different levels of leadership.
- Network with cross functional teams across the organization from product conception to launch/release.
- Expand leadership breadth and influence by working with stakeholders across the organization while aligning development teams with the business requirements.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Drive business checkpoint processes to ensure that programs meet schedule and financial targets.
- financial targets. Lead product gate meetings and facilitate executive and leadership sign off.
- Understand the key checkpoints, milestones, and gates within the Lexmark product lifecycle process.
- Coordinate with internal business areas to align product and delivery requirements.
- Establish information structure that bridge marketing data to engineering assembly components.
- Accountable for product information document that is the source of truth for Lexmark product definition.
- Update and Maintain the Product schedules and milestone in the product sites.
Key Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or project management field.
- At least 3-5 years' experience directly related to project management.
- Practical experience and knowledge in managing the product development lifecycle.
- Highly organized with a demonstrated ability to track progress, drive actions, and communicate requirement as well as progress reports.
- Collaboration skills, along with the ability to negotiate required timelines among competing priorities.
- Strong leadership skills and ability to work with and across various groups and levels of management within the organization.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and influence others towards a common goal. Able to analyze complex ideas or requirements and distill them into functional a
- Able to analyze complex ideas or requirements and distill them into functional and sustainable processes. A demonstrated ability to learn and use various project management tools is required.
- A demonstrated ability to learn and use various project management tools is required.
You may send your application to recruitment@lexmark.com.