Amphenol Aerospace Operations is seeking a Product Manager to execute product line strategy for assigned connector technologies from its Sidney, NY site. In this role, you will own key outcomes across product performance, pricing and profitability, promotion, and sales channel activities, helping drive growth within the electrical components portfolio serving aviation and commercial aircraft needs.
Working at Amphenol means contributing to a company with more than 100 years of designing and manufacturing electrical components, with manufacturing sites in Sidney, NY, Mesa, AZ, and Nogales, MX, and a Design Center in Pasadena, CA. You will collaborate across teams to support order results, margin performance, and the commercialization of new connectors and technologies.
Role focus
- Execute on monthly order goals and assist sales in closing orders
- Target and implement cost reduction opportunities
- Identify and lead NPI activities to proliferate new connectors and technologies
- Maintain technical expertise on the product line
- Manage strategic inventory releases to maximize profit and sales
- Review incoming margins daily and drive actions as needed
- Meet margin expectations for both orders and revenue
Pricing, promotion, and competitive positioning
- Establish and maintain pricing guidelines
- Provide pricing for corporate contracts to maximize both share and profit
- Create and track cost estimates on new product
- Lead pricing decisions that maximize Amphenol share and profit
- Develop and maintain regular promotional plans for the product line
- Consistently review competitor promotional positioning
Go-to-market and customer engagement
- Develop and identify channel strategy with distribution and OEM sales teams
- Interface with distributors and distribution sales teams to maximize Amphenol’s share of the shelf
- Utilize the mar-com team to develop content across web, print, and multi-media platforms
- Regularly visit key customers
- Support training efforts for both direct sales and distribution teams
What you bring
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience), plus two years directly related experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly valued experience with board to board connectors and embedded electronics (plus)
- Ability to interface at all levels of departmental and management teams
- Understanding of product line direction, strategy, and growth
Location and working requirements
- Onsite role in Sidney, NY
- Approximately 30 minutes from Binghamton, NY and about 20 minutes from Oneonta, NY
- Travel required (approximately 25%)
- Job requires a lot of sitting, typing, and other computer work
Eligibility and compliance
- Must be able to legally work in the United States; sponsorship is not available
- Requires access to controlled technology subject to US export controls, and candidates must be a US person (including US Citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) or eligible to obtain required authorization(s) from the US Government
Salary: USD 62,354 - 100,000 per year (listed as $63,000 - $100,000).
