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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Product Manager - Program

Business OperationsPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeDongguan, Guangdong Province, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or above is required.
  • Two to eight years of experience in the electronics industry is required; experience in wire harness assembly or the PCBA industry is preferred.
  • Experience in product management, project management, or marketing/business roles is preferred, and familiarity with overall manufacturing-plant operations is required.
  • Fluent spoken and written Chinese and English, with the ability to give external presentations, host customer visits, and coordinate across departments.
  • Proficiency with Office, SAP, and CRM systems, and knowledge of cost accounting logic during new product introduction and mass production.
  • Familiarity with the PBM product business management system and ability to implement cost optimization, capacity planning, and quality improvement projects to achieve factory revenue, profit, and return-on-investment targets.
  • Ability to independently coordinate the operational management of a small production unit; experience in market or product management for high-speed electronic products is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Calculate business-unit project costs, prepare quotations, allocate resources, and drive continuous improvement within the factory.
  • Partner with global product managers to track new products, annual project business realization and growth, customer strategies, target and market prices, delivery schedules, and product strategies for items manufactured at the factory; monitor revenue and profit performance.
  • Arrange customer factory tours and work with global product managers and global sales and marketing teams to present product roadmaps and promote factory capacity and manufacturing capabilities during customer visits.
  • Lead or coordinate factory operations teams and business units in developing solutions to optimize costs and delivery schedules and expand business opportunities.
  • Handle escalated issues by coordinating with global product managers, global sales and marketing, and relevant factory departments to respond quickly and support customer requirements, including quality and delivery issues.
  • Work with supply chain and planning teams to develop new-product strategies and capacity plans, and review materials and capacity against customer needs.
  • Work with planning to assess capacity loads for existing products, support capital-investment assessments with global product managers, and drive capacity expansion to meet customer demand.
  • Help the operations team review obsolete and slow-moving materials and develop disposition plans to minimize scrap and losses from deductions caused by order cancellations.
  • Coordinate product change notifications and engineering change notifications within the factory with global product managers and global sales and marketing, including site changes, material substitutions, supplier changes, second-source development, and process improvements.
  • Work with factory finance to review new-project investment and payback periods before project approval, and verify return on investment against actual results after the project transitions to production operations.
  • Drive cross-functional teams to identify risks and challenges during new-product development and mass production, use escalation mechanisms to establish action plans, remove obstacles, and implement solutions.
  • Identify weaknesses in the business unit’s and factory’s new product introduction process and advance simplification and optimization to ensure safe and successful product launch at the factory.
  • Help global product managers manage the factory product lifecycle from phase 8 (mass production) through end of life.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in wire harness assembly or the PCBA industry.
  • Experience in product management, project management, or marketing/business roles.
  • Experience in market or product management for high-speed electronic products.

About the Company

Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$985.2M
Headquarters
Wichita, KS
Founded
1940

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