Leader, Pro & Comm Category Management (Product Manager Level or Sr PM level equivalent)

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Asia
Thailand
LIXIL (Thailand) PCL.
Employee Assignment
Not remote
Full Time
18 June 2025

GROHE is the world's leading provider of sanitary fittings and a global brand, dedicated to providing innovative water products. For many decades, GROHE has been committed to the brand values of technology, quality, design and sustainability that all illustrate GROHE's commitment to creating exceptional experiences and to delivering "Pure Freude an Wasser". With its engineering, innovation and design activities firmly anchored in Germany, GROHE products bear the badge of quality "Made in Germany", ultimately strengthening the customers’ confidence in the brand. In 2014, GROHE became part of the LIXIL Corporation, a publicly listed company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Responsibilities:

New Product Development

  • Define clear value proposition of each New Product Development (NPD), prioritize NPDs based on APAC strategy.

  • Verify the financials and understand the impact to business cases for each new product request.

  • Explore new business models or opportunities as part of business development

  • Proactively seek solutions by closely monitoring market trends and deeply understanding customers’ perspectives

  • Coordinate with country product manager on approval process "LI Stage gate " for new products proposal

  • Follow up on new product performance after launch to evaluate the actual result versus target.

Product Portfolio Management

  • Key member of Professional & Commercial Category, accountable and responsible for driving and growing business results

  • Responsible for providing inputs, analysis and creates idea briefs as part of portfolio strategy

  • Responsible for supporting and detailed follow-up for Professional & Commercial product portfolio 

  • Responsible for end to end NPD implementation and market launch activities ( including driving market alignment )

  • Responsible for supporting strategic category initiative roll-out, including detailed follow-up

Others

  • Work closely with the country and cross functional team to ensure successful process launches.

  • Follow up on the post-launch feedback and result to check if they meet business targets and be able to analyze and make recommendations when they do not.

  • Support specific country product requests

  • Ad hoc duties as required

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree or higher (Marketing Preferred, not mandatory)

  • Minimum 6-8 years of product development experience 

  • Excellent Written & Verbal Communication Skills (English Mandatory & Chinese or any other languages preferred)

  • Strong Planning, Coordination and Project Management Skills

  • Strong presentation skills

  • A positive team player

  • Flexible and adaptable 

  • Proactive and dynamic 

  • Demonstrates initiative and personal leadership

  • Creative and innovative

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Every person on the planet dreams of a better home. And at LIXIL, we’re committed to making better homes a reality for everyone, everywhere.

We make it happen with pioneering water and housing technology solutions. Home to world leading brands like INAX, American Standard, GROHE, TOSTEM and many more, we touch the lives of more than a billion people each day, transforming houses into homes.

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