Product Manager

Basic Scope/Purpose: (The job’s primary purpose or contribution to the department or organization.)

The Product Manager will leverage strong leadership skills, technical knowledge, keen business acumen and inputs from a cross-functional, global team to support a range of activities: from analyzing market trends, defining customer needs and evaluating the competitive landscape to developing and executing winning product roadmaps and pricing strategies.

They will interface regularly with R&D, engineering, sales, supply chain, finance and operations to position Fenner PRP as the leading provider of High-Tech Coated Fabrics

Principal Accountabilities: (The Job’s essential or most important functions and responsibilities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Develop product strategy and optimize product portfolio, providing planning and project prioritization.
• Oversees the development of actionable product roadmaps by integrating inputs from cross-functional stakeholders in our business objectives & product strategy.
• Oversees product positioning in the marketplace, including rationalizing pricing strategy based on market conditions.
• Owns the pricing strategy through the product life cycle.
• Owns the balanced scorecard for their product line and drives the development and execution of the roadmap to improvement.
• Addresses operational issues associated with quality, delivery, and production.
• Anticipating and communicating issues, recommending corrective action, and taking independent remedial actions and reporting outcomes

·Maintains and promotes Fenner Values and Behaviors at all times.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Go-to-market strategy and product roadmap ownership for assigned markets and products.
• Market size and segmentation analysis. Support the development and maintenance of market quantification models, sources for market data and a system to track market size and its changes over time.
• Customer needs analysis and voice-of-customer feedback.
• Driving pipeline growth by working closely with global sales teams.
• Strategic annual short term and long-range market planning to maximize growth.
• Generate deliverables to support strategic decision-making processes with respect to organic as well as inorganic growth.
• The support of the development and maintenance of a systemic approach to competitive intelligence.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize legislative, competitive, and technical discontinuities and their impact, generating insight around opportunities or threats.
• Generate growth through collaboration of cross-functional teams (including R&D, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain & Operations).

Career Progression Opportunities: (example: junior or senior levels)

·Associate Product Manager will carry out the general responsibilities of a Product Manager with guidance from the Product Management Team.

·Senior Product Manager will handle a broader product portfolio or large dollar value P&L as well as coach or mentor other Product Managers.

Education and/or Relative Experience: (The level of education and/or experience needed to successfully accomplish the essential duties of this job.)(Also show level of education needed for Career Progression)

·Bachelor’s Degree required.

·Experience with a technical product line required

·5 Years Product Management experience with a B to B technical product line preferred

·Proven experience rationalizing a product line while growing top and bottom line preferred

·Experience growing a product line via organic means and integration of acquired/bought in products preferred

·Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business preferred

·MBA preferred

Associate Product Manager:

·Bachelor’s Degree Required

·3 years of experience with a technical product line required

·3 years of ancillary experience in purchasing, sales, engineering or marketing in a B to B environment

Senior Product Manager:

·7-10 years Product Management or equivalent experience

·May or may not manage or supervisor other Product Managers

·MBA highly preferred

Ability to:

·Engage passionately in the product

·Effectively communicate, network, and influence

• Constructively challenge and influence and guide senior leaders and experts in the organization.
• Ability to work in a challenging and engaging global work environment that promotes teamwork, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Have a strong executive presence - through collaboration and influence.
• Write business cases

·Gather intelligence and use this information to positively impact the product line

·Be proactive with a sense of urgency

·Travel domestically and internationally about 20% to gather firsts hand VOC and market intelligence

• Able to act decisively under conditions of ambiguity and to adapt plans in light of new information.

·Manage projects

·Analyze (raw and aggregate) data, derive insights, and share effectively.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations (The licenses, certificates or registrations that are required to perform the essential duties of this job.)

·None Required

Environmental, Health & Safety Accountabilities: (The level of safety accountability needed to successfully accomplish the essential duties of this job.

·Learn and follow EHS policies, rules and work instructions

·Attend required EHS training

·Wear the required PPE at all times

·Take personal responsibility for keeping yourself and your co-workers and visitors free from injury by participating in and/or conducting risk assessments, work place inspections, corrective actions and safety observations

·Report incidents, near miss, unsafe conditions, unsafe acts and other hazards in the work place. STOP WORK when imminent danger is present

·Maintain work area in a neat and orderly fashion and keep equipment in proper working condition.