Job Details:
Product Manager – Water Distribution
We're a $2 billion multi-platform diversified global industrial company. Within our platforms, we serve a wide array of growing, global end markets by offering the broadest, most reliable product portfolios and trusted brands in our industries. We're a recognized leader in commercial, municipal, and industrial markets and manufacture the largest breadth of engineered water solutions in the industry.
The Product Manager – Water Distribution is responsible for product planning, pricing, channel strategies, leading product development projects. This includes managing the product throughout the product lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering to deliver the winning products. It also includes working with sales, channel partners, marketing and cross functional support to ensure revenue, margin and customer satisfaction goals are met. Finally, the role acts as Project Manager for the new product development projects within the category.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead the development of timely business, economic, market and competitive intelligence analysis to support strategic planning initiatives and penetrate new markets.
- Be close to the customer, deeply understand voice of customer (VOC) needs, and measure ongoing customer satisfaction. • Product Strategy and Plans
- Define and execute the product strategy for PEX tubing, fittings, and water distribution products and tools; includes new product development opportunity assessments and product enhancement recommendations.
- Define roadmap for water distribution products and tools, including integration with other related products while working closely with product management, engineering, sales, marketing, operations and supply chain to ensure that revenue, margin and customer satisfaction goals are met.
- Establish product forecast and relevant KPI for existing portfolio of products and new product introductions; ensuring stakeholder and leadership buy-in.
- Serve as voice of the customer for product category and apply to the company's ability to meet or exceed customer satisfaction goals. Work with customers and building management system partners to identify unsolved problems in the market.
- Optimize product scope through each distribution channel.
- Develop clear and robust product positioning and messaging that differentiates our products in the market. Define key buyers and influencers and assist Marketing to develop compelling messaging approaches.
- Lead Go-to-Market teams that develop high impact, fully integrated sales and marketing programs that deliver growth, market leadership, and awareness.
- Establish pricing strategy to meet revenue and profitability goals, including base product pricing, option bundling & pricing, and channel based pricing strategies
- Responsible for delivering assigned new product development projects to market with committed features and pricing, on budget and on time. The project leadership will begin at project kickoff through product launch and successful production ramp up and go to market.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering (MBA preferred)
- Preferred 5 years leadership experience in product marketing or engineering function
- Has demonstrated project leadership including successfully defining and launching product innovation
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Must be able to travel 15-25% of the time