Product Manager I

TekWissen LLC

N.Reading, MA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$57.70–$57.70
SKILLS
Agile PLM / Oracle PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Business Administration, Business Support, Cloud Computing, Commodity Management, Communication Skills, Community Support, Cost Control, Cross-Functional, Data Analysis, Demand Forecasting/Planning, Diversity, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Electromechanical Systems, Electromechanics, Finance, Firefighting, Integrated Circuits (ICs), Leadership, Logistics, Matrix Management, Negotiation Skills, Operational Improvement, Operations Management, Oracle Applications, Performance Analysis, Performance Metrics, Process Improvement, Product Development, Product Engineering, Product Lifecycle, Product Management, Product Planning, Product Programs, Product Strategy, Product/Service Launch, Risk Management, Robotics, Root Cause Analysis, SAP PLM, Sales, Sales Management, Second Sourcing, Sourcing Strategy, Streaming Technology, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Operations, Technical Leadership, Time Management, Total Cost of Ownership, Vendor/Supplier Quality Management, Vendor/Supplier Relations, Vendor/Supplier Sourcing, Workforce Management, eCommerce, eCos
LOCATION
N.Reading, MA
POSTED
1 day ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.
Position: Product Manager I
Location: North Reading, MA 01864
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
  • Oversee supply chain initiatives for assigned products, working cross-functionally with sourcing, planning, product, and engineering teams to balance commercial and technical trade-offs.
  • A successful candidate will leverage experience in global supply chain management, and a self-driven approach to achieving sustained operational excellence and cost optimization.
Key Job Responsibilities
  • Work cross-functionally with supply chain teams to identify and drive sustaining operational improvement (cost, lead time, risk management) and seamless execution of programs through sustaining phases
  • Act as a single point of contact for program resources to communicate supply chain decisions and progress, provide feedback on supply chain implications of program decisions and changes.
  • Synthesize inputs from Sourcing, Planning, Logistics, Engineering, and Finance to create balanced recommendations that drive operational excellence, cost reduction targets, and supply chain resilience
  • Execute cost reduction roadmaps measuring total cost of ownership including spares, service, replacements, tariffs, and logistics impacts
  • Own lead time optimization analysis with clear reduction roadmaps and transparent reporting
  • Maintain ownership of supply chain requirements throughout GA and end-of-life phases
  • Coordinate cross functional implementation for post-launch design changes (ECOs)
  • Drive root cause analysis and process improvements that prevent future occurrences, ensuring sustained operational excellence across the product lifecycle
Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, or related field
  • 3+ years of experience in product operations, strategic sourcing, commodity management, or planning in electromechanical commodities
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder supply chain initiatives in sustained operations
  • Strong analytical skills with ability to synthesize data from multiple sources into actionable insights
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority (matrix management)
  • Experience with supplier relationship management and performance tracking
  • Knowledge of global hardware and electromechanical supply chains
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in robotics, electromechanical systems, or similar technology-intensive industries
  • Background in both NPI (New Product Introduction) and sustained operations supply chain management
  • 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, commodity management, or product operations management with direct responsibility in multiple commodities (electromechanical, metals, plastics, ICs, etc)
  • Advanced degree (MBA, MS in Supply Chain Management, or Engineering)
  • Experience with ERP systems (Oracle, SAP) and PLM tools (Agile)
  • Demonstrated success in cost reduction and lead time optimization initiatives
  • Experience with scenario planning and risk mitigation in complex supply chains
  • Knowledge of tariff management and trade compliance
  • Strong presentation and executive communication skills
  • Experience with Product Development Process (PDP) frameworks
  • High degree of autonomy in decision-making with clear judgment on when to escalate versus resolve independently
About role:
  • What makes this role interesting? Ground-floor opportunity building a new supply chain organization managing client-level scale across robotics and automation.
  • Team culture: Cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision-making, ownership and aspiration for process standardization over firefighting, and bar-raising Bias for Action and Ownership.
  • Competitive market comparison: Amazon Robotics scale - managing 30+ product lines across robotics, electromechanical systems, and automation at unmatched industrial automation innovation.
  • Unique selling points: Single-threaded ownership of end-to-end product supply chain strategy spanning cost, lead time, supplier performance, and risk management. Daily visibility to Director leadership.
  • Value added / experience gained: Exposure to industry leading AI-powered analytics and cross-functional leadership, and multi million dollar savings projects.
KPI's:
  • Cost savings pipelined and achieved
  • Lead time reduction
  • Material on time delivery
Leadership Principles:
  • Ownership
  • Bias for Actions
Top 3 must-have hard skills:
Strategic Sourcing / Commodity Management Exposure -
  • Experience managing or collaborating on sourcing strategies, supplier negotiations, cost reduction roadmaps, and second-source qualifications across electromechanical commodities.
  • In the absence of direct managing supplier relationship, explicit examples of directly contributing to such strategies is required
Supply Chain Planning & Lead Time Optimization -
  • Ability to drive lead time reduction, scenario planning, clear-to-build/deploy shortage resolution, and capacity alignment with demand forecasts.
Data Analytics & Reporting -
  • Strong analytical skills to synthesize data from multiple sources (cost, supplier readiness, quality, lead time) into actionable insights and consolidated performance reporting.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/