What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at Koch?
Your Job
The Product Manager for Koch Agronomic Services is responsible for defining and executing the strategy for a portfolio of agronomic products and services—translating customer needs and market insights into differentiated positioning, pricing, and go-to-market plans that drive profitable growth. This role partners closely with Sales, R&D, Agronomy, and Communications to advance products through the commercialization (stage-gate) process and ensure successful launches. The Product Manager applies strong economic thinking to build business cases and make data-informed tradeoffs, and regularly engages customers to test assumptions and continuously improve the offering.
A successful candidate will be:
This role will report to the Senior Product Manager and will be based at our headquarters in Wichita, KS with up to 25% travel.
What You Will Do
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch Ag & Energy Solutions company, Koch Agronomic Services is a leader in nutrient management, protection and plant growth. Our team brings a full spectrum of plant health and seed enhancement solutions, equipping farmers with the right tools to deliver yield results they can count on.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
The Product Manager for Koch Agronomic Services is responsible for defining and executing the strategy for a portfolio of agronomic products and services—translating customer needs and market insights into differentiated positioning, pricing, and go-to-market plans that drive profitable growth. This role partners closely with Sales, R&D, Agronomy, and Communications to advance products through the commercialization (stage-gate) process and ensure successful launches. The Product Manager applies strong economic thinking to build business cases and make data-informed tradeoffs, and regularly engages customers to test assumptions and continuously improve the offering.
A successful candidate will be:
- Highly collaborative across multifunctional teams and external business partners.
- A strong written and oral communicator with proven ability to think conceptually and pragmatically; capable of communicating with broad audiences on strategic and operational topics.
- Proactive in their work style; having the ability to work independently and manage cross-functional activities with limited oversight; comfortable working in and bringing structure to ambiguous environments.
- Able to translate customer and market insights into actionable plans.
- Well organized with strong attention to detail.
- Proactively sharing knowledge and ideas; providing and seeking challenge; developing knowledge networks; and building trusted relationships.
- Curious and a continuous learner; effectively leveraging AI tools to improve analysis, communication, and decision-making.
This role will report to the Senior Product Manager and will be based at our headquarters in Wichita, KS with up to 25% travel.
What You Will Do
- Develops and executes a long-term strategic plan for their respective product portfolio.
- Builds and analyzes current market size, market potential, and ability to win. Gathers voice of customer, market analytics, and industry trends, and projects how these forces will impact the product.
- Applies strong economic-thinking skills to prepare product pro formas, pricing analyses, and product positioning.
- Manages projects through the commercialization/stage-gate process.
- Partners with Sales to develop and execute channel strategies.
- Works closely with R&D, Agronomy, Sales, and Communications to drive product positioning and messaging.
- Represents the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services.
- 2 years of professional work experience
- Experience in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Economics, Finance, Marketing or a related field
- Product Marketing experience
- Experience in Agriculture
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch Ag & Energy Solutions company, Koch Agronomic Services is a leader in nutrient management, protection and plant growth. Our team brings a full spectrum of plant health and seed enhancement solutions, equipping farmers with the right tools to deliver yield results they can count on.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).