Overview

Why Work At Multiquip?

 Multiquip Inc has been in business for 50 years, with our parent company ITOCHU International Inc. ranks 71 out of the Fortune Global 500 companies to work for. We are one of the largest, diversified manufacturers and suppliers of excellent quality products. Multiquip’s comprehensive product portfolio includes light to medium construction equipment, power generators, and lighting. Join our team as a Senior Product Manager! 

The Senior Product Manager oversees strategic direction of the company’s Concrete Equipment Business. This high visibility role requires strong partnership with engineering, sales, marketing, business development, and other cross-functional teams. The Senior Product Manager plans, organizes, and controls assigned products from conceptual stages through its entire life cycle to optimize profit and meet marketing, sales, financial, and corporate growth objectives. Provides strategic, specific, and targeted recommendations for growth as the recognized expert in the competitive environment. Understands existing internal capabilities, while developing a long-term vision and exploring potential new opportunities.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains high level of understanding of the product, marketplace, competitive landscape and evolving customer preferences, within the Concrete Finishing Segment.
• Develops and maintains strategies and proactively manages product lifecycle.
• Manages product category strategy and P&L to achieve established revenue, margin and profit goals.
• Develops and implements product roadmap supported through voice of customer and market research.
• Monitors market position of products through regular competitive review.
• Works with Engineering, Operations and Strategic Sourcing to identify and execute value engineering initiatives and consider make vs. buy recommendations, to maintain market competitiveness.
• Helps identify new product opportunities and conducts product line analysis to support resource allocation.
• Understands customer needs and ensures that products deliver economic value while achieving cost and profitability targets.
• Supports internal teams in establishing pricing strategy of assigned products, ensuring that financial targets including sales volume and margins are monitored and achieved.
• Assists the marketing department in the development of promotions and other initiatives designed to increase customer engagement and sales of assigned products.
• Assists marketing department with updating and maintaining company web site, training material, sales literature and development of digital content.
• Assists the technical publications department as necessary in creating and verifying content for operations manuals, instructions sheets and service bulletins.
• Provides product and application training for internal and external customers on an ongoing basis in conjunction with other product mangers.
• Assists salespeople in the promotion, education and sales of assigned products to channel partners and end users.
• Act as supplier liaison to develop, test, analyze, promote and establish market penetration of assigned products throughout the Company’s sales and marketing organizations
• Works with suppliers to ensure acceptable quality, conformance and support to include communicating product issues and product improvement requests through established formats.
• Coordinates with suppliers to ensure current and accurate product documentation and service/parts manuals are published and provided in accordance with company guidelines.
• Communicates product updates and improvements to management, applicable company employees, channel partners and customers.
• Monitor warranty activity for assigned products and ensure all technical and/or compliance issues are resolved.
• Must have the ability to travel domestically and internationally as necessary for industry events, supplier visits and customer meetings.
• Performs other duties that may be assigned.

Qualifications

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree (B.A/B.S.) or equivalent from a four-year college/university in Business Administration, Marketing, Engineering, or the Arts, and 5 years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience in Product Management. Experience in the manufacturing of Concrete finishing or construction equipment or Rental Construction/Power equipment required. Knowledge of product management / strategic planning concepts, practices and techniques.

The position requires an ability to understand, balance and direct multiple product lines with differing market demands.

Computer Skills:

Working knowledge of MS Office is required.

Experience with SAP is preferred.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demand described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is occasionally required to use hands, to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation and Benefits:

• Base pay range of $120,000-$130,000/year 
• Start at 4 weeks of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Volunteer Time Off 
• Affordable Medical Plans; HMO & PPO plan options
• Vision & Dental plans (including orthodontic coverage)
• Company paid Life, AD&D, and long-term disability Insurance
• 401(k) plan including discretionary Company Match
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 a year
• MetLife Hyatt Legal plans
• Employee Assistance Program

Multiquip provides competitive pay and benefits and supports our employees through our values of safety, integrity and respect.

Employment is subject to pre-employment physical, drug-screening and background investigation. E-Verify (www.dhs.gov/E-Verify) is used to verify a candidates’ legal right to work in the U.S.

Multiquip Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will received consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other protected class.

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