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Corning

Specialty glass, ceramics, and tech components

Senior Product Specialist

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Understand assigned products' applications, value propositions, product lifecycles, new product introduction and discontinuation processes, and quality requirements.
  • Build data-driven demand forecasts and explain supply-chain risks and their business impacts.
  • Support pricing strategy, value-based selling, sales initiatives, and sales-channel strategy.
  • Coordinate across sales, marketing, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, customer service, global product-line management, and external partners.
  • Understand revenue, gross margin, profitability, pricing, inventory, slow-moving and obsolete inventory, return on invested capital, and budget management.
  • Understand life sciences markets and customers, segment customers, identify customer needs and unmet needs, conduct competitive analysis, and translate findings into sales initiatives.
  • Communicate effectively in English and Japanese in conversations, email, presentations, conference calls, translation and localization, negotiations, and persuasion; have English proficiency at TOEIC or equivalent level, with the specific standard set by company policy.
  • Manage multiple priorities amid uncertainty by structuring ambiguous issues, identifying owners, and determining next actions.
  • Identify needs, make proposals, and drive actions without waiting for instructions.
  • Demonstrate collaboration, a constructive attitude, strong ethics, accountability, and conduct aligned with Corning's values.
  • Use Microsoft Excel functions and features effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the assigned Life Sciences product line from a business-owner perspective by identifying needs, making proposals, driving execution, and achieving outcomes.
  • Manage product-line performance against revenue, gross margin, budget, demand forecasts, inventory, and other key performance indicators.
  • Develop and maintain product-line plans covering market and customer insights, competitive analysis, pricing strategy, product-roadmap recommendations, new product introduction and discontinuation plans, and responses to risks and growth opportunities.
  • Work with the Life Sciences sales team and sales channels to develop sales strategies, target customers, value propositions, and opportunity follow-up actions.
  • Analyze customer opportunity pipelines, sales trends, market signals, and sales-team input to improve demand visibility and forecast accuracy; participate in Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning discussions as needed.
  • Drive issue resolution in collaboration with quality, manufacturing, supply chain, customer service, technical support, regulatory affairs, and global product-line management, while respecting each function's responsibilities.
  • Support customer-facing technical and commercial communications, including product inquiries, quality complaints, change notifications, translation, and localization.
  • Contribute to profitability improvements through price changes, cost reductions, inventory and slow-moving and obsolete inventory reductions, and operational improvements.
  • Work closely with global product-line managers and manufacturing sites to obtain current information and provide feedback from the Japan market.
  • Complete projects and duties assigned by the manager and contribute to team process improvement and knowledge sharing.

About the Company

Corning

Specialty glass, ceramics, and tech components

Corning develops and manufactures specialty glass, ceramics, and related components for a range of industries. Its engineered glass and ceramic materials are produced and integrated into devices and systems such as smartphone screens, high‑performance displays, optical networks, automotive emissions controls, and life‑science equipment. The company differentiates itself with a broad portfolio across multiple markets, material science expertise, reliable supply, and end‑to‑end components and systems. Its goal is to help customers achieve performance and reliability by providing durable, high‑quality materials and connected solutions that scale with growing demand.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Corning, NY
Founded
1851

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