Product Manager

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the product roadmap for a range of hygienic sensors and instrumentation.

• Balance the needs of customers with technical feasibility and business profitability.

• Develop business cases for new products and enhancements, encompassing market size, pricing, margins, and launch projections.

• Collect voice-of-customer insights through site visits, interviews, and collaboration with sales and application engineers.

• Create market and product specifications and prioritize them with engineering throughout each development stage.

• Oversee product launches from start to finish, including positioning, pricing, sales training, documentation, and marketing materials.

• Monitor portfolio performance, focusing on revenue, margin, quality, and market share, and respond to performance metrics.

• Manage the product lifecycle, including decisions regarding end-of-life and transition strategies.

• Keep an eye on competitors, industry standards such as EHEDG and 3-A, as well as regulatory trends.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in engineering, a technical discipline, or business.

• Over 5 years of experience in product management, product marketing, or application engineering for industrial or technical products.

• Proven experience in taking products from concept to market launch.

• Strong financial acumen, including expertise in business cases, pricing strategies, and P&L management.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align engineering, sales, and leadership teams.

• Willingness to travel up to 25% to engage with customers, attend trade shows, and visit our facilities.

• Experience with process instrumentation, sensors, or automation in food, beverage, dairy, or pharmaceutical sectors is preferred.

• Familiarity with hygienic design standards (EHEDG, 3-A, FDA) and digital connectivity technologies such as IO-Link is a plus.

• Knowledge of stage-gate development processes is advantageous.

• An MBA or equivalent business training is desirable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Willingness to travel up to 25% to customers, trade shows, and our sites.

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations provided for applicants with disabilities.