Senior Product Manager

Fibergrate Structures was founded in 1966 with a single product that today is still our #1 seller and can be found on every continent around the world. From the beginning, we have offered engineered solutions that increase worker safety and provide extended product life cycles as compared to traditional building materials.

Sixty years later, we are still Building the World to Last®.

As we continue to grow our global footprint and invest in the future of our people, our partners, and our markets, we are elevating product management and marketing as a strategic growth driver for the business.

We're seeking a Senior Product Manager to build, lead, and scale a best-in-class product management function for Fibergrate Structures and its global brands: Fibergrate Composite Structures, Bison Innovative Products, Jouplast, Fibregrid, USL Structural Products, and ThruBream. This is a rare opportunity to shape how a respected legacy brand evolves for the next generation while playing a central role in growth, reputation, and culture.

If you are energized by building teams, driving innovation, creating clarity, and telling stories that move the business forward, this role offers the platform to make a lasting impact.

Position Purpose

The Senior Product Manager is a leadership role responsible for defining strategic product direction, lifecycle management, and commercial success across our entire product portfolio globally. This role will own product strategy from concept through end-of-life, aligning customer needs, market trends, and business objectives to drive both incremental and organic growth, profitability, and competitive differentiation.

Aligned with Fibergrate's long-range vision and values, this role will collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, sales, operations, marketing, and supply chain teams to ensure Fibergrate’s products continue to meet the highest standards for safety, performance, compliance, innovation, and customer value across markets.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Product Leadership

• Develop and execute an enterprise-wide 3 to 5 year product Road Map aligned with our vision, growth priorities, and channel requirements
• Serve as a strategic partner to executive leadership, business unit leaders, and global sales teams for collaborative timelines and forecasts on new product introduction
• Create business goals with clear KPI’s and well-defined measurable outcomes

Leadership and Team Development

• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing product management team
• Establish clear roles, expectations, workflows, and career paths
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement
• Coach seller-doers and technical partners on messaging, storytelling, and client engagement
• Voice of Customer research to establish all Critical To Quality features and benefits

Sales and Marketing Execution Ownership

• Own and steward the Fibergrate Structures collection of products across all regions, markets, and platforms
• Identify new opportunities for the business within existing and new markets
• Work with the marketing team to create sales tools, collateral, and training materials in partnership with Launch Communications, both internally and externally
• Directly lead the voice of customer engagement to validate competitor analysis, market sizes, customer pain points, and technology trends that can be converted into business actions, driving growth
• Utilize the Milestone Process for developing business cases and clearly creating collaboration and ownership of all departments throughout the development and launch phases for an on-time and target met execution

Digital, Public Relations, and External Presence

• Own content and vision for creation that is to be deployed by the Digital Marketing team
• Collaborate with the Digital Marketing team for all keywords/phrases/benchmarking on website strategy, search optimization, and performance analytics
• Work with media partners for social media, public relations, thought leadership, awards, and earned media communications to a global audience
• Ensure a best-in-class and differentiated product system presence in priority markets
• Partner with external agencies and consultants to extend capabilities, increase certifications, and improve/document performance as needed

Ideal Candidate Profile

Leadership and Mindset

• Inspirational, people-first leader with a strong coaching orientation
• Strategic thinker who connects markets, customers, sales, operations, and people
• Comfortable operating at both management and execution levels
• A builder who thrives in creating structure, systems, and clarity while holding themselves and other collaborators accountable to timelines
• Competitive mindset, wants the entire team to win

Functional Strengths

• Deep experience in the specified building/construction products markets and sales channels
• Strong experience developing and launching new products with a proven track record
• Private Label & Sourcing understanding and awareness in working with outside manufacturers for effective product launches
• Awareness and ability to manage multiple brands, and creating or implementing clear guidelines on the differentiation for each line of products
• Awareness of product and compliance requirements for global markets
• Clear and well-thought-out communication for team prioritization of projects

Internal Communications and Culture

• Influences senior stakeholders through clear narratives that connect product strategy to business outcomes, helping partners reason about tradeoffs and priorities
• Defines and monitors success metrics across the road map, making data-informed decisions in ambiguous environments, driving outcomes aligned to the product strategy, and creating transparency and accountability across teams and stakeholders
• Competes with urgency by balancing speed, quality, and risk across initiatives to deliver maximum impact

Product Management Operations and Governance

• Strong operational discipline with exceptional project and stakeholder management skills
• Data-informed decision maker comfortable using metrics and analytics

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or engineering; master’s degree preferred
• Minimum of five years of progressive product management experience, preferably with at least two years of people leadership
• Proven success in motivating teams and exerting influence across multiple departments and geographies
• Specified Building/Construction product management experience preferred
• Ability to travel up to 20%-30%