(Associate) Product Manager, Key Components

Job Req ID: 25916

About Supermicro:

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are amongst the fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer many new positions to the technology community.  We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us to drive accelerated growth and technology-led innovation in the global marketplace.

Job Summary:

As the market leader in professional server solutions, Supermicro is seeking an experienced and innovative (Associate) Product Manager - Key Components that can help us grow our technologies into the parallel computing and hyper-converged spaces. This is a fast moving, emerging business, and successful candidates will be able to move and adapt quickly to changing needs, manage multiple initiatives, engage at all executive levels both inside Supermicro and with partners, and have proven track record of developing products as well as business model from the ground up. The successful candidate will be self-driven and passionate about bringing new solutions to market. This position will be located in the EMEA headquarters in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Suggest and promote the best key components configuration and optimization to high end visualization.
• Support both Pre-sales and Post-sales as well as training to SMC PMs, Sales and VARs.
• Manage product line, monitor life cycle / roadmap, promotion of mainstream or new product
• Manage project and involvement from initial stage of RFQ and eventually win the deal and follow up with delivery timeline
• Request components test validation internally and follow up with test complete time to support business demand
• Promotion of SMC complete system, work closely with sales/FAE to increase complete system business
• Maintain and improve good relationship with vendor, participate partner event and QBR
• Negotiate best price and allocation with vendor to support business request
• PO management, and follow up delivery time
• Control and plan inventory level, optimize stock usage
   

Qualifications:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree, major in Electronic Engineering is a plus
• 2+ years related computer system or key components PM or Sales or Purchasing working experience 
• Competent in reading, writing and speaking in English is a must, Chinese speaking is a plus
• Microsoft office work experience is essential, especially on Excel and PowerPoint. 
• Demonstration strong ownership
• Excellent communication skill, able to express clearly and presently via verbal or written to achieve work goal across the geographies
• Good negotiation skill and high accuracy sense for numbers
• Ability to work in dynamic, high pressure working environment
• Team spirit, working with motivation, flexibility, and passion