Founded in 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, Hoya is a global technology and med-tech company, and a leading supplier of innovative high-tech
and medical products. Hoya is active in the fields of healthcare and information technology, providing eyeglasses, medical endoscopes,
intraocular lenses, optical lenses, as well as key components for semiconductor devices, LCD panels, and HDDs. With over 150 offices
and subsidiaries worldwide, Hoya currently employs a multinational workforce of 37,000 people. For more information, please visit
http://www.hoya.com.
For over 60 years, Hoya Vision Care has been a global leader in the eyeglass lens business. With a presence in over 50 countries,
Hoya Vision Care has proven expertise in lens designs and freeform surfacing technology combined with a leading position in high
performance, quality AR coating. Hoya Vision Care’s solid market portfolio includes VISION EASE, SEIKO, and PENTAX optical lenses,
as well as innovative products such as Yuniku, the world’s first vision-centric, 3D-tailored eyewear. The company employs over
16,000 employees worldwide with mass production facilities in Asia & Europe and over 25 local Rx laboratories globally.
Driven by a passion for partnership as well as innovation, HOYA has been a partner to Eye Care Professionals for over 75 years, enabling
them to give people the greatest gift, the gift of vision. We provide Eye Care Professionals with the lenses, consultation solutions
and other services that help them to develop their practice while changing the way people see the world. We see them as visionaries,
and everything we do is for them. Founded in Japan in 1941, today, HOYA has a presence in over 80 countries across the globe.
HOYA Vision Care Product category consists of the following areas. Design, Material, Coating, Function and Photochromic. The Category Manager takes a leading role in the definition of an active development pipeline for the product category of respective category for the different lens brands of Hoya Vision Care, to drive business development and growth. You will stimulates consumer centric development and help to improve operational implementation efficiencies to achieve the highest speed to the market.
Strategy
• Ensures Product Development Roadmap within Lens Design category is aligned to Business
targets. Works closely with R&D & Brand Team
• Develop and drive key concept differentiators by category trend foresight (customer,
consumer and technology)
• Management of the global product launch calendar and portfolio of the responsible categoryacross the different lens brands
• Identify product(group) opportunities by careful survey of tracking technology trend and
market/competition
• Competitive benchmarking vs. competition/market trend and within portfolio, and reporting (to
R&D and Global marketing organisation) in cooperation with Brand Team
• Suggest and support monitor tests and market research initiatives relevant to the category
with R&D to Market Insight and Research team
• Signal new product opportunities and contribute to the creation of business cases for these
products – drive high potential opportunities with priority
New Product Development (NPD)
• Participate in Project Management Office (PMO) and brand launch projects, support
execution and rollout
• Pro-actively manage NPD process with R&D and/or participate stage gate review (SGR)
meeting and design review (DR) meeting
• Create new product concept statements from technical standpoint for Brand team and
support Brand team for technical validation and substantiation of product marketing
communications
• Technical and commercial definition of new product concepts with relevant R&D departments
and (global) commercial teams
Post product launch
• Keep track of, guide and support regional roll out of (strategic) global launches and guide on
portfolio modifications
• Review the positioning of products and make recommendations for adjustment and further
development – drive active development of the different categories for each lens brand
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