About This Role
This high-impact opportunity is for a commercially minded product leader to build and lead a market-driven product management capability for a growing manufacturer of engineered products. Reporting to the VP/GM, this individual will own product and portfolio strategy, establish a structured voice-of-customer process, develop strategic pricing and positioning, and lead the commercial side of new product development and launches.
Responsibilities
- Own and develop the 3 to 5 year product and portfolio roadmap
- Identify and prioritize growth opportunities based on customer needs, market attractiveness, competitive position, economics, and operational capabilities
- Build a structured voice-of-customer process and translate market insight into clear product requirements and business cases
- Develop product positioning, value propositions, and value-based pricing strategies by product and application
- Lead commercialization of new products from business case through launch, adoption, and post-launch performance
- Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Operations, and Finance to prioritize product investments
- Evaluate portfolio performance and identify opportunities to invest, reposition, rationalize, or exit products and SKUs
- Establish greater discipline around product lifecycle management, launch metrics, portfolio economics, and investment decisions
Requirements
- Product management leadership experience within engineered products, building products, plastics, polymers, materials, industrial manufacturing, or adjacent physical-product categories
- Experience owning product strategy, roadmaps, commercialization, and lifecycle management
- Strong understanding of pricing, gross margin, product economics, and P&L drivers
- Demonstrated success translating customer and market insight into new products and profitable growth
- Experience working closely with Engineering, Operations, Sales, and manufacturing teams
- Strong commercial judgment paired with enough technical depth to understand product performance, manufacturing constraints, and engineering tradeoffs
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing decisions without relying solely on direct authority
Important Details
- Work format: hybrid flexibility
About the Company
The company serves a diverse range of residential and commercial applications and has significant opportunity to expand its product portfolio, enter new applications, and better capture the value its products deliver.