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Position Title:  Manager Technical Services

Location: 

Rogers, CT, US, 6263

Job Category:  Sales
Shift:  Shift 1
Full Time / Part Time:  Full-Time
Job Level:  Manager
Approximate Travel:  25%
Job Description: 

Summary:

This role drives technology strategy for assigned market(s) and provides recommendations on business strategy and product portfolio. This role collaborates with the business unit to clearly articulate the vision. Recommends appropriate strategy recommendations for the business product portfolio.

Essential Functions:

  • Provides strategic interface between the technology function and business functions to stimulate, identify and shape technology demand, ensuring the potential business value is realized.
  • Provides technical leadership that designs, develops, verifies and validates new product/technologies appropriate for the market and manufacturing.
  • Leads strategic technology direction by identifying novel solutions to customer needs, new market trends and opportunities and provide strategic input on business growth opportunities. Build strong personal relationships with key customers and is seen as an industry expert.
  • Drives collaboration with Research and Development and other functions as required.
  • Maintains a culture of solution focused mindset based on the voice of customer and fosters effective customer engagements and interaction with a variety of market participants and end users of products.
  • Exhibits strong know-how of customers, products, competitors, channels to market and customer-focused innovation. Leads by example and demonstrates consistent commitment to customer service excellence.
  • Oversees the identification, collection, evaluation and execution of new product ideas or product extensions.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related technical field.  May consider equivalent work experience in lieu of degree
  • 8+ years of experience in research and development, new product development or application development
  • Successful product development or application development history
  • Experience in materials and material driven applications
  • Experience in successful product and technology development
  • Travel:  Up to 50%
Additional Qualification Details:  No additional requirement needed

Who We Are and What We Are All About:

Rogers Corporation makes tomorrow's innovations possible. Help build a cleaner, safer and more connected world with a career at Rogers, where we make tomorrow’s innovations possible. We rely on a talented workforce to develop our cutting edge, market-leading material technologies. Our global team develops innovative specialty materials and components that enable technology in a wide array of high-growth markets. Our customers expect high performance and reliability, so we are always looking for people who can improve processes, get results and represent a best-in-class organization. People are at the heart of all our operations, and we encourage our employees to act with integrity, creativity and excellence to help drive results worldwide.

Why Work for Rogers:

It is our commitment to get “Results, but Results the Right Way.” Rogers offers an exceptional work environment and a value-driven culture modeled by leadership. Employees have access to developmental opportunities as well as top-notch benefits and incentive programs. Come join a winning team!

Rogers Corporation provides equal employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals, as well as other protected groups.

About Rogers Corporation:

At Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG), we're changing how the world uses technology. We are a global leader in materials technology and manufacturing, producing engineered materials to power, protect and connect our world. With nearly 200 years of materials science and engineering experience, Rogers delivers high-performance solutions that enable global Advanced Electronics Solutions and Elastomeric Material Solutions, as well as other technologies where reliability is critical. Rogers enables the world’s leading innovators to achieve greater performance, speed to market and reliability through our renowned technical solutions support, problem-solving and application engineering capabilities. Rogers delivers market-leading solutions for energy-efficient motor drives, vehicle electrification and alternative energy, sealing, vibration management, and impact protection in mobile devices, transportation interiors, industrial equipment and performance apparel, wireless infrastructure and automotive safety and radar systems. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona (USA), Rogers operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, China, Germany, Belgium, Hungary and South Korea, with joint ventures and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.rogerscorp.com.

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