๐ข๐๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐ฃ&๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ ๐ด๐น๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ๐น๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ, ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ ๐๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ.
Strategy, margin, roadmap, and the product managers all report to the same person in this seat. You.
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Pave Talent is hiring on behalf of our client, a global manufacturer of electronic assembly and joining materials: solder bars, pastes, fluxes, flux-cored wires, and alloys used by circuit board assemblers worldwide. Over a century old, manufacturing on several continents, and this product line is one of its largest businesses.
๐ช๐ต๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ
- Leaders who have carried a number, not influenced one someone else owned
- People who have managed product managers, not only managed products
- Strategic operators who decide what gets sunset, not only what ships next quarter
- Candidates who read a global market and act on where growth actually is
If you are a strong individual-contributor product manager, or your background sits outside electronics, this is not the one.
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Director in title, general manager in practice. You report to the global leader of the business and own the strategy, the financial performance, and the team, which is the full general manager experience most people wait years and two more title changes to get.
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- Full profit and loss (P&L) ownership of a global electronic solder materials line generating revenue in the mid hundreds of millions
- Two regional product managers reporting to you directly, plus a product specialist indirectly
- Cross-functional leadership across research and development (R&D), supply chain, engineering, sales, finance, and procurement
- A supply chain spanning manufacturing plants across multiple regions
- A defend-and-grow mandate, with the fastest-moving opportunity in Asia
๐ช๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ ๐ช๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ช๐ก
- Define where the product line goes: which markets matter, which products stay, which get sunset, which technologies come next
- Carry revenue, margin, forecasting, and budgeting for the whole line
- Lead the product managers and the day-to-day product decisions across many stock keeping units (SKUs)
- Prioritize new product development, validate capability, and land commercialization through new product introduction (NPI)
- Work with finance and procurement on pricing, cost management, and margin optimization
- Close performance gaps in the market and strengthen pipeline management
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This is global, so expect roughly 35% travel to company sites and customers. Your leader sits overseas, which means some interviews and standing calls land early in the East Coast morning. The interview itself includes a 10-minute case presentation drawn from your own past work, because the bar here is strategic thinking rather than tactical execution. The most common reason strong candidates have not advanced is never having managed product managers. If that describes you, this seat will be a hard fit.
๐ค๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆ
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐พ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ:
- Product line or business unit leadership with direct profit and loss (P&L) ownership, ideally $100M or larger
- Experience managing product managers. This is the firmest requirement from the hiring team, not a preference.
- Electronics industry background: electronics assembly, advanced materials, solder or soldering wire, printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing, semiconductor, or an adjacent market
- Evidence of strategic range, including technology roadmapping and commercialization, not only execution
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field
- Able to travel roughly 35% globally
๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐๐:
- MBA, preferred but genuinely not required
- Asia or multi-region commercial experience
- New product introduction (NPI) track record in materials or specialty chemistry
- Solder, flux, or assembly materials product knowledge
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ง๐ฆ
๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐: $150,000 to $175,000
๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐: 15% annual target
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐: 401(k) with company match
๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ: Medical and life insurance
๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ: Paid time off plus 9 company holidays
๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐น๐ฒ: Hybrid, three to four days on-site and one to two at home, depending on the week
๐ง๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐น: Roughly 35% global
๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: Central New Jersey, commutable from Middlesex, Somerset, Union, and Monmouth counties
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: Local candidates are preferred. Relocation is considered case by case for the right person, and the client needs a start date inside about a month.
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