Job Description

As a Regional Business Intelligence Manager, you will work closely with the regional teams and collaborating with adjacency business / cross business unit marketing experts will be essential. Customer visits, Social media, publications, trade shows and conferences will be the other secondary sources of intelligence for visualizing the future state and identifying technology gaps and opportunities.

Visibly, the BIM will be the intelligence connection between the region and global product management to orientate the corporation to make the right decisions on new product development (NPD) projects and how to promote and communicate our offering into the market.

The BIM will also analyze and provide guidance internally within the region on PPO measurement, margins trend and complexity hotspots. The BIM will develop trackers and dashboards to consistently track progress and trends that will report out metrics in tandem with regional financial & operational goals. The BIM will develop appropriate tools and process to manage and analyze competitor and market information.

Key Responsibilities

* Adopt the PESTEL (Political, Economic, Social, Technology, Environmental, Legislative) analysis model, or similar to form the foundation for strategy building
* Provide the regional voice and perspective to inform and shape the Global Product Strategy and Portfolio
* Build the macro trend roadmap and identify the underlying drivers for the coming change. Translating the trends and drivers into value streams that the corporation can act on to lead the change
* Develop and manage tools and process to collect intelligence
* Validating the intelligence and prioritizing where are the high impact and value returns lies
* Identify the common grounds on trends and drivers between Auto OEM and Industrial Coatings and how it translates to collaboration on technology and applications
* Support Global Product Management to validate specific customer, competition or regional intelligence
* Leveraging analytics expertize to support regional commercial marketing teams with Power BI or equivalent dashboards and analytics, provide guidance on the critical initiatives around PPO, margin progress and other PM initiatives

Qualifications

* Bachelor degree in technical, scientific, business, or related fields
* ]Minimum 5 years related work experience; Market / Business Analyst or Product Management experience most preferred
* Experience in sales or technical with Cross-functional exposure; similar experience in coatings or manufacturing business preferred
* Proven track-record of delivering results and driving execution
* Strong business and financial acumen
* Influence Leadership skills; communicating and coordinating others who do not report to you.

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