Product Manager - Engineering

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

CPM Holdings, Inc. is a diversified leading global supplier of process equipment and engineered technologies that sustainably feed, fuel, and build a better world. With its growing family of 17 market-leading product brands, CPM serves a variety of industries including animal feed, consumer food, green energy, advanced materials, and sustainable packaging. Founded in 1883, CPM has 1,700 employees across 36 facilities on 4 continents with presence in 150 countries. From the foods you eat to the fuels you require, CPM plays an important role in making the world more efficient and more sustainable. For more information, visit OneCPM.com.

POSITION OVERVIEW (Job Summary):

As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for the development, launch, and lifecycle management of products across international markets for your business segment. You will develop keen knowledge of the segment’s customer needs, the business needs, and identify solutions to address these. This is a highly cross-functional role that will be based in St. Charles, MO; report to the Global Vice-President of Engineering and be strongly aligned with the Global Vice-President of the business segment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy Planning and Execution

o Identify target markets, size the opportunities within those markets, and assess the ability to realize commercial outcomes.
o Understand macro trends around industry changes, regulations, geopolitical forces, and technologies. Collaborate and align actions around these trends.

• Market Intelligence

o Assess total market size and market share by competitor for multiple regions.
o Track competitor offerings and press releases. Summarize and communicate findings in an actionable format.
o Periodically assess your segment’s position via SWOT analysis and other appropriate methods.
o Attend trade shows and follow trade publications.

• Product Pipeline and Portfolio Management

o Create product pipelines for your segment that provide a balance of quick wins and longer-term strategic plays.

o Manage the portfolio of product offerings to ensure all offerings are relevant to the market, to the customers, and to the business. Collaborate with business partners to produce these plans and effectively communicate.
o Initiate and direct New Product Development. Ensure strong project charters are defined with reliable investment and financial return metrics. Create Market Requirements Documents to define compelling opportunities and Product Requirements Documents to capture the proposed solutions for these opportunities.
o Develop and manage trademarks.

• Project Management

o Lead cross-functional project teams through stage gate processes for select projects.
o Create and manage the schedule to drive timely product launches, driving meaningful revenue at expected margins.
o Utilize relationships with business partners and functional leaders to ensure project deliverables are met.

• Performance Measurement

o Continually monitor internally facing data such as margin performance, cost of poor quality, and material productivity. Make appropriate adjustments.
o Utilize data from market research, VOC, Net Promotor Scores, and other customer-facing data to feed into strategy development.
o Ensure timelines are met and deliverables are complete.

• Market Leadership

o Represent the business segment on product expertise.
o Be known and respected by key customers for product/market knowledge and innovative solutions.

Skills/Experience:

• 10 years of experience working as a Product Manager or similar, relevant position—

preferably machinery or capital equipment industries.

• Significant experience in product lifecycle management and new product development.
• Proven track record of developing, launching and managing successful products through a stage gate NPD process.
• Strong organizational, leadership, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated innovation results.
• Experience working with cross-cultural teams and navigating international markets.