Director of Product Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and take charge of the category strategy, focusing on growth, margin enhancement, and competitive positioning.

• Create and uphold a long-term product roadmap based on customer insights, market dynamics, and financial implications.

• Convert strategy into distinct priorities, trade-offs, and action plans.

• Collaborate with sales and marketing to ensure synergy between product strategy and market entry goals.

• Establish multi-year category direction, encompassing expansion, simplification, and competitive stance.

• Define and standardize essential product management procedures within Gibraltar Building Products, covering New Product Development (stage-gate, governance, prioritization) and Engineering Change Requests (ECR/ECO workflows, decision rights, SLAs).

• Promote adoption and adherence across various business units and functions.

• Set up governance, metrics, and tools to guarantee consistency, efficiency, and quality.

• Ongoing process enhancement to minimize cycle time, costs, and execution risks.

• Lead portfolio rationalization efforts to decrease complexity, eliminate low-value SKUs, and boost operational efficiency.

• Assess and capture value throughout the supply chain (cost, inventory, manufacturing efficiency).

• Identify, prioritize, and spearhead New Product Development from concept initiation to launch.

• Create business cases that include pricing strategies, cost objectives, and return on investment.

• Ensure successful product launches with effective positioning, pricing, and channel preparedness.

• Coordinate alignment among engineering, operations, supply chain, marketing, and sales to achieve business results.

• Act as the primary point of accountability for product decisions and trade-offs.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related discipline (MBA is preferred).

• 12–15+ years of experience in product, category, or business leadership roles (industrial/manufacturing experience is preferred).

• Proven track record of managing P&L and leading large-scale cross-functional initiatives.

• Experience in building or scaling product management or New Product Development processes.

• Willingness to travel: less than 45%.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary along with paid time off and holidays.

• Supplemental healthcare coverage, including prescription and vision benefits.

• Prescription drug coverage.

• Dental insurance.

• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.

• Employee Assistance Program.