Sr Product Manager

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Job Title

Sr Product Manager

Responsible for maximizing the current product line(s) revenue and gross margin, managing the product life cycle, collaborating with regional and vertical commercial leaders on setting the product strategy, and executing against overall regional or global product strategy, pricing collaboration, product modifications for margin management, and achieving targeted margin growth. Success is defined by margin improvement/lift by facility and customer. The Sr Product Manager has global or multi region responsibility for assigned markets or products.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Track product line health against key metrics including volume growth, profit margin, operating cash flow, asset utilization and working capital management as well as lead the resolution of internal issues (e.g. quality, OTD, etc.).
• Work with strategic insights and strategic marketing, understand the competitive landscape.
• When needed, interact with customers.
• Act as liaison with supply chain and has responsibility of asset management, including product allocation/prioritization. S&OP, TSS, etc.).
• Manage the life cycle of the product by ensuring organic growth through innovation and annual price improvement as well as product rationalization.
• Collaborate with operations to identify and initiate annual cost reduction and/or avoid cost increases.
• Set internal pricing floors and targets for account managers, in collaboration with regional and vertical commercial leaders.
• Understand potential opportunities as it relates to capacity and maximizing margins.
• Train and guide new sales representatives on product.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Accountable to every commercial leader (vertical and regional) where product(s) are sold.
• Business case review, including capital expansion review.

Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field.

Experience:

• Minimum seven years’ relevant commercial experience.

Functional/Technical Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• In depth technical product knowledge as well as strong analytical skills.
• Ability to influence senior managers and decision makers.
• Must be able to work with a diverse variety of people from different cultures and backgrounds.
• Perform detail-oriented tasks utilizing high language and math skills.

Position Specific Title and Responsibilities:

• For the near term, estimated to be the next 12-24 months, the product manager will be responsible for performing the following for a set number of plants:
• Commercial review on all pricing based on age and length of time since price change.
• Commercia