Product Mgr

Product Manager

Basic Scope/Purpose:  (The job’s primary purpose or contribution to the department or organization.)

The Product Manager will leverage strong leadership skills, technical knowledge, keen business acumen and inputs from a cross-functional, global team to support a range of activities: from analyzing market trends, defining customer needs and evaluating the competitive landscape to developing and executing winning product roadmaps and pricing strategies.

They will interface regularly with R&D, engineering, sales, supply chain, finance and operations to position Fenner PRP as the leading provider of High-Tech Coated Fabrics

Principal Accountabilities: (The Job’s essential or most important functions and responsibilities.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Develop product strategy and optimize product portfolio, providing planning and project prioritization.
• Oversees the development of actionable product roadmaps by integrating inputs from cross-functional stakeholders in our business objectives & product strategy.
• Oversees product positioning in the marketplace, including rationalizing pricing strategy based on market conditions.
• Owns the pricing strategy through the product life cycle.
• Owns the balanced scorecard for their product line and drives the development and execution of the roadmap to improvement.
• Addresses operational issues associated with quality, delivery, and production.
• Anticipating and communicating issues, recommending corrective action, and taking independent remedial actions and reporting outcomes

·         Maintains and promotes Fenner Values and Behaviors at all times.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Go-to-market strategy and product roadmap ownership for assigned markets and products.
• Market size and segmentation analysis. Support the development and maintenance of market quantification models, sources for market data and a system to track market size and its changes over time.
• Customer needs analysis and voice-of-customer feedback.
• Driving pipeline growth by working closely with global sales teams.
• Strategic annual short term and long-range market planning to maximize growth.
• Generate deliverables to support strategic decision-making processes with respect to organic as well as inorganic growth.
• The support of the development and maintenance of a systemic approach to competitive intelligence.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize legislative, competitive, and technical discontinuities and their impact, generating insight around opportunities or threats.
• Generate growth through collaboration of cross-functional teams (including R&D, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain & Operations).

Career Progression Opportunities: (example: junior or senior levels)

·         Associate Product Manager will carry out the general responsibilities of a Product Manager with guidance from the Product Management Team.

·         Senior Product Manager will handle a broader product portfolio or large dollar value P&L as well as coach or mentor other Product Managers.

Education and/or Relative Experience: (The level of education and/or experience needed to successfully accomplish the essential duties of this job.)(Also show level of education needed for Career Progression)

·         Bachelor’s Degree required.

·         Experience with a technical product line required

·         5 Years Product Management experience with a B to B technical product line preferred

·         Proven experience rationalizing a product line while growing top and bottom line preferred

·         Experience growing a product line via organic means and integration of acquired/bought in products preferred

·         Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business preferred

·         MBA preferred

Associate Product Manager:

·         Bachelor’s Degree Required

·         3 years of experience with a technical product line required

·         3 years of ancillary experience in purchasing, sales, engineering or marketing in a B to B environment

Senior Product Manager:

·         7-10 years Product Management or equivalent experience

·         May or may not manage or supervisor other Product Managers

·         MBA highly preferred

Ability to:

·         Engage passionately in the product

·         Effectively communicate, network, and influence

• Constructively challenge and influence and guide senior leaders and experts in the organization.
• Ability to work in a challenging and engaging global work environment that promotes teamwork, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Have a strong executive presence - through collaboration and influence.
• Write business cases

·         Gather intelligence and use this information to positively impact the product line

·         Be proactive with a sense of urgency

·         Travel domestically and internationally about 20% to gather firsts hand VOC and market intelligence

• Able to act decisively under conditions of ambiguity and to adapt plans in light of new information.

·         Manage projects

·         Analyze (raw and aggregate) data, derive insights, and share effectively.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations (The licenses, certificates or registrations that are required to perform the essential duties of this job.)

·         None Required

Environmental, Health & Safety Accountabilities:  (The level of safety accountability needed to successfully accomplish the essential duties of this job.

·         Learn and follow EHS policies, rules and work instructions

·         Attend required EHS training

·         Wear the required PPE at all times

·         Take personal responsibility for keeping yourself and your co-workers and visitors free from injury by participating in and/or conducting risk assessments, work place inspections, corrective actions and safety observations

·         Report incidents, near miss, unsafe conditions, unsafe acts and other hazards in the work place. STOP WORK when imminent danger is present

·         Maintain work area in a neat and orderly fashion and keep equipment in proper working condition.