Ken Breen Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Building a team of EHR (EPR) experts to support our clients in the US and Europe on their Digital Transformation journeys.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin

Ireland

• This is a global role managing the full product life cycle of the entire $5BN portfolio of inkjet supplies for HP Print. As portfolio manager, I am the point person for the product management teams to lead the overall.
• Developed a detailed understanding of future product needs by forging strong partnerships with Customer Assurance, Competitive Intelligence, and Regional Category Management teams
• Partnered with R&D leadership teams to produce a long-term (5+ years) product portfolio roadmap
• Collaborated with printer product management teams to align their product launch schedule with the shorter term (< 5 years) supplies portfolio roadmap
• Managed the communication and alignment of our supplies portfolio roadmap with Supplies and Regional leadership teams
• Partnered with the Finance team to translate customer, channel and competitive insights into business cases for strategic investment opportunities

County Kildare, Ireland

• This was a leadership role in the Future Product Management team. I managed the Officejet brand of SMB products with annual revenues > $1.5BN
• Launched a >$2B portfolio of products into the office printing market
• Led the roll-out of a new product marketing model of driving key business decisions through financial modelling of customer and channel insights derived from Big Data
• Conceived and implemented a radical change to product design and pricing strategy which resulted in >$500M of additional revenue from the office printing market
• Worked with regional category teams to develop and roll out a regionalization strategy to address their Grey Marketing concerns.
• Hired, trained and mentored several MBA hires in the US to perform product specialist roles.

Dublin, Ireland

• This was a global product management role with ownership for leading, managing, and executing successful program and strategic initiatives for HP Ink Supplies. I owned marketing communication, sales assets, competitive.
• Launched a > $1BN portfolio of products into the Consumer and Office markets
• Led a team tasked with developing an Inkjet Product that would overcome segment bias towards laser based technologies in Emerging Markets

Ireland

• In this role I managed the integration, validation and customer buy-off of industrial printing presses at customer sites across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
• Led the teams that were responsible for validating that the output quality met the customer expectations
• Qualified System Upgrades at customer sites
• Set up a Customer Return Centre in Ireland for Print-head failures
• Investigated class issues to identify and implement long term solutions

Ireland

• Voice of the Customer Lead on a number of New Product Development Programs
• Set performance, reliability and experiential goals for New Products
• Led WW Cross Functional R&D teams in resolving performance and reliability issues

Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Temporary relocation to Oregon to work on the development of a new printing platform.
• Led the eTest Process Development and Spec Alignment teams
• Developed KPI Test Suites

Ireland

• Owned performance and reliability KPIs.
• Led WW teams in troubleshooting reliability issues.
• Member of Change Management Team
• WW Lead on a number of Cost Reduction Activities

Dublin, Ireland

• Supervised a group of 10 Product Test Engineers
• NPI Program Manager, working directly with key customers to characterise and test new products
• Monitored and reported on KPIs to WW Management
• Hired, trained and mentored new team members.
• Drove the improvement in test yields and test times for existing and NPI products.

Ballivor, Ireland

• High Volume Manufacturing Support
• New Product Introduction
• Analysis of Field Returns