Regional Category Management Leader

Lixil (Thailand) Public Company Limited (Din Daeng)

Bangkok, Thailand

LIXIL Corporation is one of the largest companies in the building materials and housing equipment industry, with its sales of over USD 13 billion and employees of approximately 60,000. With a headquarter in Tokyo, Japan, there are more than 17 regional offices, 83 branches, 287 sales offices, and 44 production sites for domestic sales and production under LIXIL across Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, and Middle East.

Detail posisi

The successful candidate will report to the Regional Product Leader and be responsible for all scope of New Product Development, Product Portfolio Management for our LIXIL products in Thailand and ASEAN countries.

Kewajiban

New Product Development
• Define clear value proposition of each New Product Development (NPD), prioritize NPDs based on APAC strategy
• Verify the financials and understand the impact to business cases for each new product request
• Explore new business models or opportunities as part of business development
• Proactively seek solutions by closely monitoring market trends and deeply understanding customers’ perspectives
• Coordinate with country product manager on approval process for new products proposal
• Follow up on new product performance after launch to evaluate the actual result versus target

Product Portfolio Management
• Key member of Pro & Commercial Category, accountable and responsible for driving and growing business results
• Responsible for providing inputs, analysis and creates idea briefs as part of portfolio strategy
• Responsible for supporting and detailed follow-up for Pro & Com product portfolio
• Responsible for end to end NPD implementation and market launch activities (including driving market alignment)
• Responsible for supporting strategic category initiative roll-out, including detailed follow-up

Others
• Work closely with the country and cross functional team to ensure successful process launches
• Follow up on the post-launch feedback and result to check if they meet business targets and be able to analyze and make recommendations when they do not
• Support specific country product requests
• Ad hoc duties as required

Kualifikasi

• Master’s Degree in Marketing, MBA or related field
• At least 6-8 years of proven experiences in trade marketing, product category, and strategic marketing plans in a multinational organization, preferred building material industry experiences.
• Excellent Written and Verbal Communication skills
• Strong Project Management, Planning, and good coordination skills
• Demonstrated Planning, business effectiveness, analysis, negotiation and influencing skills
• Experience in Customer segmentation and behavior, marketing research and Consumer communications.
• Ability to balance strategic and systematic thinking with operational implementation
• A mature and energetic individual who is hands-on and has excellent problem-solving skills
• Have an appreciation of modern design/lifestyle trends
• Strong Leadership, coaching and strategy implementation, interpersonal communications and customer oriented in a must
• Commercial oriented with strong Analytical skill (product, competitor, promotion and market)
• Strong passion in driving the growth and profitability of the category
• Develop a strong level of market/competitors pricing and ensuring competitive price value chain and margin
• Be active, proactive, passionate and work with highest integrity value
• Positive and good team player
• Demonstrates initiative, Creative, Innovative
• Proactive, Dynamic, Flexibility and Adaptability to change