Location: Blythewood,SC, USA
Product Manager - Controls
Product Manager - Controls will be tasked to manage the product line to achieve real terms orders growth and profitability. The Product Manager will be responsible for managing the portfolio through the entire life cycle.
Manage portfolio from cradle to grave to achieve real terms order growth and profitability. Identify and drive growth opportunities in targeted products - 40%
Identify and implement sales and supply strategies to achieve order and profit targets within portfolio - 40%
Drive and develop product vitality. Develop new product ideas and driving them through the NPI process either with the Steam Business Development Team or through local engineering. Perform gap analysis and complete business cases to identify and support growth opportunities - 20%
Job Functions:
* Manage Product Launch process for SXS US Package Portfolio.
* Coordinate with Marketing, Pricing, Supply and Sales on new product launches and through product life cycle
* Manage business systems that support the product portfolio.
* Coordinate with Pricing, Sales and Industry Managers on product opportunities and manage the implementation of the initiatives
* Develop tools to support sales process
* Visit customer and distributors to drive new product solutions and assist in sales cycle
* Track vitality scores on product initiatives
* Create, capture and validate new product ideas to start the NPI process
* Conduct VOC and VOS to identify NPI opportunities
* Perform competitor and market analysis to identify road map for product portfolio
Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
* 10+ years or more of experience in engineering or applications engineering
* 3+ years or more of experience in business development (preferred)
* Confidently engage at all levels of internal and external organizations
* Excellent presentation and report writing capability
* Able to take ownership on projects and manage them with little supervision
* Leadership skills required to manage and develop a team
* Display a positive attitude and innovative approach to problem solving and is able to justify findings based on supporting data
* Demonstrates high degree of professionalism, leadership, and autonomous drive
* Outstanding oral and written communication skills
* Ability to plan, multi-task and manage time effectively
* Goal oriented self-starter and able to flex to changing business needs and priorities
* Ability to respond to tight deadlines and work under pressure
About Us
Steam Thermal Solutions is one of four businesses within Spirax Group, with global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos). These OpCos are organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra. We acquired Gestra five years ago and since then have operated it as its own business, and as such, we operate two brands, Spirax Sarco and Gestra.
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.