Senior Manager, Product Management

Description

• Champion Regional Customer and Market Insight: Deeply understand customer needs, competitive dynamics, and emerging trends to inform strategy and drive regional relevance.
• Promote Strategic Problem-Solving: Encourage forward-looking thinking and agile execution to address regional challenges and capture new opportunities.
• Drive Data-Based Decision-Making: Utilize market analytics, performance KPIs, and financial insights to inform strategic choices and optimize the portfolio.
• Collaborate for Market Success: Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to ensure product readiness, successful launches, and adoption across channels.
• Lead Innovation and Lifecycle Strategies: Champion innovation and portfolio evolution to deliver sustained growth, margin improvement, and competitive advantage within the region.
• Champion Operational Excellence: Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance speed, efficiency, and execution quality across the product management function.
• Align and Influence Across Functions and Geographies: Ensure strong alignment across functions, while advocating for regional needs and investments within the global framework.
• Manage Budgets and Resources: Ensure resource allocation and functional investments align with strategic priorities and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Own Portfolio Financial Performance: Manage the regional product portfolio P&L, driving profitability, ROI, and disciplined lifecycle management in alignment with both regional goals and global benchmarks.
• Partner Cross-Functionally for Differentiated Solutions: Collaborate closely with R&D, Operations, Sales, and Marketing to translate market insights into high-value, customer-relevant products.
• Manage the Full Product Lifecycle: Oversee the product journey from concept to commercialization and end-of-life, ensuring customer satisfaction and business impact throughout.
• Lead and Inspire the Product Team: Build and mentor a high-performing team, fostering accountability, innovation, and strategic thinking.
• Shape and Represent Regional Product Strategy: Serve as the voice of the region in global category strategy development—ensuring that regional priorities, customer needs, and market dynamics meaningfully influence global direction.
• Identify Growth Opportunities: Prioritize high-impact opportunities across existing and emerging markets, including value-driven and fast-growing segments within the region.
• Define and Deliver the 5-Year Regional Roadmap: Develop a robust, insight-driven roadmap that both aligns with global category strategies and reflects the unique opportunities and challenges of the region.
• Align Product Strategy with Business Goals: Collaborate with regional and global leadership to ensure product strategies drive the broader commercial and operational objectives.

Requirements

• Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills at all organizational levels.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a manufacturing or industrial environment, preferably within plumbing, building products, or HVAC.
• 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or people management role.
• Strong business acumen with experience managing P&L performance, including pricing, margin management, and lifecycle optimization.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field; MBA preferred.
• Demonstrated success in developing and executing multi-year product strategies that drive measurable business growth.

Benefits

• Best-in-class health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• 160 hours paid time off (combination of PTO and Employee Safe and Sick Time accruals- MN Based Employees)

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance