Role Overview:
The Senior Product Marketing Manager is accountable for end-to-end ownership of assigned semiconductor product lines, including business strategy, vendor governance, revenue growth, and profitability. This role acts as a strategic partner to global semiconductor principals and requires the capability to operate with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, high-accountability regional environment.
Job Responsibilities:
Strategic Product & Vendor Leadership
- Own end-to-end business responsibility for one or more strategic semiconductor product lines, including revenue, gross margin, inventory health, and market share.
- Act as the regional product owner and key decision-maker in engagements with global semiconductor principals.
- Lead complex commercial and strategic negotiations with suppliers, including pricing frameworks, supply allocation, market access, rebate structures, and long-term business plans.
- Represent the company in senior-level business reviews with principals and internal management
Market & Growth Strategy Execution
- Develop and execute multi-year product and market strategies aligned with regional growth objectives and supplier roadmaps.
- Drive design-in and design-win strategies across key customers and applications, ensuring sustainable pipeline growth.
- Conduct advanced market, customer, and competitive intelligence analysis, translating insights into actionable commercial strategies.
- Proactively identify underperforming segments and implement turnaround actions to recover growth and profitability.
Commercial & Risk Management
- Take ownership of pricing authority, margin optimization, and inventory risk management, balancing market competitiveness with financial discipline.
- Monitor sell-in, sell-through, and forecast accuracy, taking decisive actions to mitigate supply-demand mismatches and E&O exposure.
- Prepare high-quality business analysis and executive-level reports for internal leadership and principals.
Cross-functional Leadership & Influence
- Provide strategic direction to Sales and Field Application Engineers (FAE), ensuring disciplined execution of product strategies.
- Lead cross-functional alignment across Sales, FAE, Operations, and Supply Chain without direct reporting authority.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert and internal advisor, raising overall product and market competence within the organization.
Job Requirements:
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or related technical disciplines
Professional Experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, with the majority in distribution or supplier-facing roles.
- At least 4-5 years in a Product Manager or Product Marketing Manager role, managing IC product lines with measurable business outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience leading vendor-facing commercial discussions independently is required
- Experience working in multi-cultural, regional teams is strongly preferred.
Core Competencies
- Proven ability to operate with high autonomy and accountability.
- Strong commercial judgment with experience making pricing, allocation, and inventory decisions under uncertainty.
- Advanced data analytics and financial modeling skills, including strong proficiency in Excel (Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP, scenario analysis).
- Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and influence skills.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities from principals, customers and internal leadership.
Additional Requirements
- Willingness and flexibility to undertake frequent regional and international travel.
- Legally eligible to work in Singapore in accordance with local employment regulations.
Preferred Attributes
- Experience owning regional (ASEAN or APAC) product responsibility.
- Exposure to automotive, industrial, AI, or data center semiconductor applications.
- Track record of turning underperforming product lines into growth drivers.