Why Work at Lenovo
Description and Requirements
This position will require a working knowledge of product offerings across hardware, software, and services as well as the functional processes used to bring these offerings into the Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) product portfolio.
The Offering Development Team Leader (ODTL) will serve as a partner for the product marketing teams and executives in making sure our offerings support the ONELenovo, customer, and product strategy and goals.
The candidate should be able to provide leadership and align the team to achieve the following goals:
- Understand Lenovo hardware, software, and services offerings as well as business goals and product marketability for ONELenovo, customer, and product offerings.
- Manage end to end product portfolio launch processes across functional teams (development, manufacturing, finance, procurement, services, operations, quality, business segments, marketing, and sales).
- Creation and presentation of project milestone packages to cross functional leadership and executive teams throughout the lifecycle of the launch.
- Ability to leverage processes and coordinate work across different methods to market and functional teams to support full Lenovo offerings.
- Working knowledge of ONELenovo, customer, and product sales process and strategy.
- Ability to understand how to enable product availability strategy within the different go to market processes of ISG, IDG, and SSG organizations of Lenovo.
- Ability to drive conversation, understanding, and negotiate between technical teams and executives to meet the goals of the offering and deliver excellence to our customer.
- Proactive leader with ability to change priorities and focus based on the changing needs of the business.
- Proactive learner with the ability to identify project issues, possible solutions, and lead them to resolution.
- Promote team productivity and process improvements to meet organizational goals.
- Eagerness to learn and take ownership of end to end product launch execution and process.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
- Previous experience product launch and portfolio management.
- 3+ years’ experience in project management.
- Expert in PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication, team, and people skills.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Adaptable and flexible to a changing work environment.
- Ability to work well with all levels sales and management, both internally and externally.
- Ability to solve complex problems and be persistent and assertive in the face of obstacles.
- Flexibility to work non-regular hours on occasion to meet global needs.
- PMI certification
- Agile experience
Lenovo adopted a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy for US-based employees. As a condition of employment, employees must adhere to Lenovo’s US Vaccination Policy and be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to any applicable accommodations. To be fully vaccinated means individuals must receive the full series of a vaccine either approved by the FDA or WHO and listed by the CDC (e.g. two dose of the Moderna, AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines; or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine). This applies to all US-based employees, contractors and interns, regardless of work location. As a condition of employment, you must provide proof that you are fully vaccinated or follow Lenovo’s accommodation process.