This position has overall responsibility for the profitability of new and commercialized product lines within the Planarization group in semiconductor materials business unit. The ideal candidate will embody strength in two key requirements of this position
Develop a Strategic Vision and Market Strategy. The ideal candidate will lead the team to develop a business strategy by carefully studying market trends and documenting customer pain points to appropriately segment the market, target the customer groups and focus the R&D efforts on creating value and differentiation to address the customer pain points in order to establish our Right to Win.
Tactical Business Planning and Disciplined Execution: Lead the global team to drive successful customer adoptions of our CMP slurry products per the Strategic Vision and Market Strategy. One element of Planarization growth is to ensure we have a continued strong pipeline of new product opportunities and to gain high success rates for these opportunities. Critical to success in this position is developing and maintaining close collaborations with our strategic customers and OEM partners. Acceleration of new product development aligned with the focus on R&D is an essential element to the division’s growth strategy; thus, it will be essential that this position maintain a close and collaborative working relationship with our technology and fulfillment organization.
This position is based in Taiwan.The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker and leader with strong business acumen, negotiation and communications skills. The ideal candidate will also be able to lead global teams to devise our Right to Win strategy in key market and customer segments. Further, this individual will also be accountable for execution of the Right to Win strategy with strong interpersonal, organization and disciplined execution skills. The candidate will need to work closely with Sales and Applications Engineering across multiple global regions and to define the commercial priorities. A strong understanding of the Semi market is required to succeed in this position. The position also requires the ability to effectively work with R&D and IP teams to devise an effective global IP strategy and to also develop unique supply options for key raw materials by developing strategic partnerships with select strategic suppliers. Further, the ideal candidate will also develop an understanding of the systemic interconnections and value drivers among the various functional groups within the company including supply chain, finance, EH&S, technology, legal, asset management, operation, and engineering.
Your Role
Strategic
Grow the business profitably, and in line with the objectives of Formulated Materials/Planarization
Definition of the Right to Win strategy in key market and customer segments.
Devise and executive an effective IP strategy in collaboration with R&D and IP
Drive development of strategic partnerships with select strategic suppliers.
Execution
Lead development of overall assigned segment strategy and market plan development to drive the segment growth.
Lead the identification and prioritization of new opportunities through close collaborations with our global sales, applications and technology teams.
Lead the effective use of NPI tools to monitor and document project performance vs. milestones. Assure all requirements are met throughout the NPI process.
Own and lead preparation and execution of communication, technical, pricing or change strategy and collateral for customers.
Market Team Accountabilities
Prepare an understanding of the competitive landscape (i.e., new product introductions, strategic alliances, intellectual property, etc.) that helps to further define our product differentiation relative to other products in the market
Develop analytical dimensioning of the product opportunities for value and success probability.
Develop product pricing strategies and maintaining pricing discipline to assure profitable growth for the commercialized and new products
Develop strong analytically derived product plans that are based on customer and competitor intelligence, market trends and forecasts by industry analysts
Develop marketing and communication plans for product offerings. This should include presentation materials, managing our presence at conferences and use of web-based communications
Develop and execute training and support for the customer applications specialists on new products and their applications
Organization
To work closely with the Sales and Applications Engineering teams across Asia, EU and NA.
To foster a close and collaborative relationship with R&D assuring that the appropriate test formulations are screened in a timely manner for incoming application requests
To work closely with Global Product Management on the optimization of all manufacturing assets, and to ensure future investments match the capacity and capability as forecasted
Who You Are
Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Degree (MS or Ph.D.) in material science or chemistry/chemical engineering or allied fields, or technical degree with an MBA
At least 5 years’ experience in semiconductor industry with direct understanding in semiconductor technologies.
Have a passion to win and a deep curiosity for learning and problem solving
Hands-on experience in technical marketing, commercial negotiations, business planning, strategy development and execution is a plus.
Proven track record of developing new products and driving profitable growth
Strong teamwork spirit, interpersonal and communication skills, especially across multi-cultures.
Effective verbal and written communication skills in English. Working knowledge of Chinese is a plus
Ability to multi-task across a wide variety of issues