Product Portfolio Manager Senior

We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come… for our customers, our communities, and our planet. 
 
Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (ABL) and the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.  
 
We are positioned at the intersection of sustainability and technology. Our businesses develop technology that helps save our customers energy and reduce their carbon emissions. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and location-aware applications. 

Job Summary

This role will lead and manage our “Made-To-Order” portfolio and optimize across the organization.  You will work with all business functions (product groups, sales, supply chain, sourcing, and technology) to increase efficiency and productivity for the MTO products, with focus on aligning MTO to <30% of the total business. You will develop strategies and actions for our Enterprise Solutions / National Account focused portfolios.  You will analyze and develop actions that impact our stock and non-stock solutions.    

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Portfolio Management:  Drive family/option optimization across our MTO offering using data, input from sales, product, and supply chain.  Analyze and idenitfy families/options that can move from MTO to DS, identify options that can be removed from offering, identify and manage RMI reductions, conduct lead time analysis and develop strategies with product and supply chain, analyze and enhance RFA process.
• Life-Cycle Management:  Identify MTO only families that need to be sunset and work process to move business to DS or another MTO family,  assist on product discontinuations, collaborate with product teams on VAVE projects, identify parts consolidation opportunities
• Collaborate with our Enterprise Solutions and product teams to manage the focused enterprise customer specific portfolio (participate in design, analyze existing solutions, SKU reductions, suggest alternatives, supply chain analysis, etc.) to improve service, profitability,
• Supporting other portfolios managers and actions (CS, DS, and Embedded Controls).  Emphasis on working with Design Select and Embedded Controls portfolio teams to maximize share, profitability and cash flow.

Education (minimum education required)

Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing or Finance

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Data analytics experience using Excel and PowerBI & story telling with data
• Project management experience
• Excellent peer influencing and problem solving skills
• Gathering voice of customer data and translating into strategy/actions
• Robust Business Acumen

 

Travel Requirements

• 1-20%

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

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