Position Title: Product Manager
Do you want to own a product line’s vision, go-to-market strategy and how that product line drives essential business outcomes? Do you want to work for a company that prides itself on bias for action and entrepreneurialism? Do you currently work within product management, marketing or engineering but want to make the next step, then come be a Product Manager here at NGH.
The Product Manager develops, implements, and manages product development activities to provide optimum sales and profits to assigned product line. The Product Manager is able to craft and manage a vision for their portfolio that will lead to fulfilling customer expectations and drive essential business outcomes. The product manager will work closely with engineering, marketing, design, sales, supply chain and senior leaders. Ensures alignment of work with the company’s overall strategy and goals. Opportunity to interface with all functional areas in an influential role that is highly visible to Executive Management.
Who We Are:
At Nortek Global HVAC (NGH), we have a passion to make the world breathe easier. We engineer top-tier residential, commercial, and manufactured housing HVAC equipment that our contractors love to install, our end-users comfortably enjoy, and our partners proudly carry. As a Madison IAQ company, we are committed to our mission of making the world safer, healthier, and more productive. Our mission, alongside our core values of trust, bias for action, and an entrepreneurial spirit are what enables us to build something truly remarkable that will long outlast us.
Position Summary:
The Product Manager develops, implements, and manages product development activities to provide optimum sales and profits to assigned product line. The Product Manager is able to craft and manage a vision for their portfolio that will lead to fulfilling customer expectations and drive essential business outcomes. The product manager will work closely with engineering, marketing, design, sales, supply chain and senior leaders. Ensures alignment of work with the company’s overall strategy and goals. Opportunity to interface with all functional areas in an influential role that is highly visible to Executive Management
Position Responsibilities:
- Strategic Business Plan – Develop a three-year business plan for their respective product line including SWOT analysis, competitive analysis, strategies, tactics, etc.
- Defines the market position of the product within the context of the overall product family strategy and aligns it with the brand strategy.
- Continuous Product Improvement – Work with engineering, manufacturing, logistics, and distribution services to improve products and services for the product line. This will include quality and costing issues, forecasting, inventory management, productivity, service issues, etc.
- Conduct Voice of the Customer (VoC), primary/secondary/observational research to facilitate development of product plans and identification of new products.
- Leads the development and execution of product sales training plans.
- Assists in the development of product commercialization plans (identifies need for product literature, web pages, social media, PR, trade shows, etc.).
- Manage the stage gate process for assigned product line.
- Drive proactive product lifecycle management in alignment with the strategic business plan and overall business strategy.
- Partner effectively with engineering, operations, and project management to drive requirements clarity and make scope tradeoff decisions.
- Leads the annual review process for assigned product lines with key stakeholders.
- Partner with Marketing team to help develop buyer personas, positioning statements, messaging, lead generation, and sales enablement strategies for on-going and new launch products.
- Monitor competitive activities/products and provide continuous gap analysis in products/services.
Position Qualifications
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree preferably in engineering or technical field.
- 2 to 4 years related product management experience.
- Proven experience launching products in a B2B, distributor GTM model.
- Experience owning development of a product and working cross-functionally with engineers, designers, quality, sales, and manufacturing professionals.
- Ability to work with urgent deadlines, changing priorities, and multiple assignments simultaneously.
- Planning and alignment: Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritize work to meet commitments that are aligned with organizational goals.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills resulting in data-driven decisions.
- General business and technological knowledge, including full understanding of Microsoft Office suite.
- Familiarity with project management basics.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to present to groups across all levels of an organization.
- Skill in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
Preferred: Air handling and HVAC industry experience.
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