The Product Manager is a professional who identifies the customer needs and the larger business objectives that a product or feature will fulfill, articulates what success looks like for a product, and rallies a team to turn that vision into a reality. Responsible for managing product lines throughout the product lifecycle from ideation to execution in support of organizational strategy and objectives. This role will work cross-functionally, to drive innovation and growth in both technology and product solutions globally within their respective product lines. What You'll Do
- This role has no direct management responsibilities. However, this role requires indirect leadership of team members across multiple functions, levels, and sites. This indirect leadership includes:
- Foster collaboration with team members to drive value and collectively identify and resolve problems.
- Advocate for the end user and stakeholder by empathizing with and understanding user needs.
- Manage cross-functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute product strategy.
- Exhibit active listening, facilitate sessions, and clearly communicate at all levels.
- Drive the execution of all processes in the product lifecycle, including product and market research, competitor analysis, planning, positioning, requirements and roadmap development, and product launch.
- Actively seek and provide market intelligence, competitive landscape, and voice of the customer data to help advise on core and new service market opportunities.
- Conducting and/or overseeing research to gain a deep understanding of the market, customer, and end user's needs.
- Implements and maintains competitive pricing strategy within the product line.
- Develop MRD/PRD's including user stories (structured conjoint use cases).
- Drive/monitor/analyze key product metrics (including adoption and screen targets).
- Develop proof of concepts and prototyping and implementing feedback on those prototypes.
- Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, ROI, and ensure the product strategy directly relates to the business strategy.
- Facilitate cross-functional ideation campaigns that lead to defined technology projects and product solutions.
- Gather and manage ideas coming from different sources. This includes building and maintaining an ideas backlog, and keeping stakeholders informed about the status of their ideas and requests.
- Build and own the product roadmap ensuring execution is aligned with strategy.
- Write product specifications which define the product requirements.
- Define and manage success metrics for the product lines and individual projects.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams in the development, QA, and release of products, and balance resources to ensure success for the entire organization.
- Evaluate competitors and competing technologies.
- Develop product line strategy and technology goals to drive R&D efforts and sales targets.
- Other duties as assigned.
What You'll Bring
- A bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering, or a related field required.
- 6 years of relevant professional experience required.
What We Value
- MBA or advanced degree in a related discipline is preferred.
- Strong level of business acumen and the ability to understand various business scenarios.
- Demonstrated strategic thinking and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated ability to create and execute strategic initiatives to drive top line growth.
- Strong self-management skills including accountability, goal setting, self-motivation, and time management.
- Strong organizational skills with a process-oriented mindset
- Communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence others.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills, combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills.
Standex International Corporation is a diversified global manufacturing company operating in five segments which consist of our Electronics, Engraving, Engineering Technologies, Specialty Solutions, and Scientific divisions. The company's market-leading manufacturing brands are recognized for quality and innovation. Our strategy is to drive growth and build larger industrial platforms by leveraging the combined strengths of our businesses to better penetrate current markets and to enter new geographic and vertical markets. Standex Electronics is a worldwide market leader in the design, development and manufacture of standard reed switch-based sensor solutions and custom electro-magnetic components, including magnetics products. We are a global team of problem solvers who can provide custom and/or standard solutions through our diverse and dynamic capabilities. Our approach is to strategically partner with customers to conquer challenges and deliver reliable high-quality results through our engineering and components. These parts serve an array of markets globally, and through our customer driven innovation - improve the overall performance and efficiency at which end products operate. Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status