Product Line Manager Circuit Breakers📣 إعلان

About the Role

alfanar is seeking a Product Line Manager for Circuit Breakers to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time position requires over 10 years of experience and involves implementing business strategies to effectively manage product lines, foster collaboration, and enhance customer satisfaction across alfanar's various units for strategic market development.

Role Purpose and Strategic Direction

The Product Line Manager will be responsible for analyzing market trends, disruptions, and competition to provide strategic direction. This role involves fostering innovation, exploring new markets, and establishing competitive advantages to differentiate alfanar's products and elevate their market position. The objective is to achieve synergy across alfanar units for strategic market development and to enhance overall customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding and capturing customer needs to define new offer scope and specifications aligned with market requirements and company strategy.
• Participating in market research, validation, and analysis to identify new market opportunities for existing and new product lines.
• Conducting competitive analysis of technical and commercial offers, identifying needs for enhancement, and monitoring market price trends.
• Managing price positioning across all go-to-markets and geographies to capture offer value and ensure competitiveness.
• Leading product optimization and standardization efforts with R&D and design teams to improve process performance and productivity.
• Driving product launches in collaboration with public relations, executives, and other product management team members.
• Participating in proposal response processes, offer forecasting, and plan accuracy to ensure optimal inventory and competitive lead times.
• Monitoring excess and obsolete (E&O) trends and implementing strategic actions to maintain optimal inventory levels.
• Acting as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding.

Market Engagement and Development

• Participating in customer seminars, meetings, workshops, and events to promote product offerings.
• Scoping and prioritizing activities based on business and customer impact.
• Establishing and growing relationships with strategic partners.
• Identifying market trends, disruptions, and opportunities, and driving initiatives to capitalize on them.

Leadership and Operational Excellence

This role requires the ability to transform corporate goals into actionable business plans, monitor their execution, and initiate actions to strengthen results. The Product Line Manager is expected to take full responsibility for their operations, anticipate problems, and make timely decisions. This includes developing organizational structures, ensuring job descriptions are available, and improving business processes through automation and well-defined systems, policies, and procedures. Quality is considered a prime competitive advantage for alfanar, and managers are expected to act accordingly. Adaptation to new techniques, technologies, and business models is also essential.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Proven ability to manage product lines effectively and implement business strategies.
• Experience in market analysis, competitive intelligence, and product lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated ability in market exploration, relationship building, and product launch management.
• Proficiency in business planning, performance monitoring, and budget control.
• Familiarity with IT solutions relevant to business operations.
• Commitment to maintaining a safe, secure, and legal work environment.