Global Product Manager NFC Automotive

Renesas Electronics

Graz, Austria

Job Description

As a Global Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving the growth of the Connectivity - NFC Product Line. You will own the entire lifecycle of your product portfolio, from concept to end-of-life, ensuring its success by aligning customer needs, market trends, and organizational goals. With a focus on innovation, strategy, and cross-functional leadership, you will help position our solutions as market leaders.

Key Responsibilities

Product Definition and SCOPE Management:
- Define product requirements, setting clear objectives, costs, and timelines;
- Mitigate technical and commercial risks in collaboration with Project Managers throughout the project lifecycle;
- Serve as the first point of escalation during project execution and support internal and external stakeholders.
Business Ownership
- Manage the gross profit of the product over its lifetime;
- Maintain and evaluate the product’ positioning, leveraging the (4Ps(Product, Price, Place, Promotion) Own and continuously validate the product’s business case to ensure market relevance and profitability.
Lifecycle Management
- Drive product lifecycle activities, including launches, updates, and end-of-life planning;
- Oversee product change notifications (PCNs) and discontinuation process.
Strategic Leadership:
- Support and contribute to product roadmap definitions;
- Develop innovative product ideas, and USPs to achieve market leadership;
- Provide input to the product line strategy through in-depth customer, market, and competitive analyses.
Go-to-market execution:
- Define and implement product market Introduction plans, ensuring the readiness of “product packages”, training materials, and promotions tools;
- Train and equip the sales force to ensure effective product promotion and adoption.
Customer Engagement and Design-IN Support:
- collaborate with Regional Product Marketing Teams to monitor and support the DIN funnel;
- Identify new business opportunities and ensure the teams have the resources to succeed.
Market scouting & Innovation:
- Analyze market trends, competitive landscapes, and emerging technologies to guide innovation;
- Propose new business models and make-or-buy strategies for inorganic growth.

Qualifications

Degree in Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related fields;
5+ years of experience in the semiconductor field of product Management;
Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of engaging executive-level stakeholders;
Entrepreneurial mindset with a customer-focused and team-oriented approach;
Automotive Market understanding – Tier1 and supply channels;
Strong technical knowledge of NFC Applications and standards is a plus;
Digital Car Key application know-how is a plus;
Business fluency in English; and German is a plus;
Willingness to travel internationally.