Senior Product Manager, R&D Technology - The Toro Company

Sponsorship:  

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a school/employment or any other visa, regardless of expiration date, now or in the future.

Who Are We?  

With roots dating back to 1914, The Toro Company was built on a tradition of quality and caring relationships. Today, the company is a leading worldwide provider of innovative solutions for the outdoor environment, including turf and landscape maintenance, snow and ice management, underground utility construction, rental and specialty construction, and irrigation and outdoor lighting solutions. Through a strong network of professional distributors, dealers, rental stores and retailers in more than 125 countries, we proudly offer a wide range of products across a family of global brands to help golf courses, professional contractors, underground construction professionals, groundskeepers, agricultural growers, rental companies, government and educational institutions, and homeowners – in addition to many leading sports venues and historic sites around the world.

Your Opportunity:

The Senior Product Manager, R&D Technology supports the business objectives of the Landscape and Contractor Group (L&C) which consists of Toro, Exmark and Spartan lawn mower brands, by guiding the development and leading the integration of key company-wide technologies (autonomous, alternative energy, and connected products) across the L&C fleet of equipment and leading the digital product portfolio strategy.  Key functions include:  creating and refining the technology strategy for L&C product portfolio, leading the development of technology roadmaps for the divisions, identifying and developing the business case for key technology integration driven by unmet customer needs, leading divisional product marketing teams on technology integration across the product portfolio, supporting the development of cross-department processes and procedures to support new technologies, and collaborating with peers company-wide to identify and drive synergies.

Work Location: 

• Candidates have the choice of where their home office base would be:  Bloomington, MN Toro's International Corporate Headquarters;  Beatrice, NE at Exmark's Division Headquarters;   or Batesville, ARK at the Spartan Mowers Division Headquarters. 

• The current team works a hybrid model with 3-days on-site and optional 2-days remote;  or 5-days on campus (varying on the culture of the location).    

• Other job locations and/or fully remote is not available at this time.  

• This role includes travel 15%-20% (both domestic and international) with related expense reporting duties. 

What Will You Do? 

To grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company, you will be responsible for: 

• Develop, present, and execute multi-generational product plan for digital, autonomous, connected, and alternative energy technology in order to accomplish relevant product line, departmental, and divisional objectives.

• Coordinate and execute voice of the customer activities and other market research required to fully understand future technologies.

• Participate in specialization groups, product development, and DCI team meetings on a regular basis.

• Partner with product managers to lead tech-focused product projects through key project stage gates.

• Assist with the ongoing management and evolution of existing technologies in use across the product portfolio.

• Plan and deliver technology related sales training, including participation in live training events and recorded webinars.

• Work closely and collaborate with peer divisions within TTC on developing and executing joint strategies.

• Coordinate with product managers to create tech-focused content for sales training tools and marketing collateral materials.

• Monitor competitive environment and develop and contribute data to create competitive technology related comparisons for use in training the L&C and distributor sales teams.

• Collaborate with product managers, sales team, and finance team regarding digital and related technology pricing strategies.

• Support industry trade shows, customer experience events, and other key activities.

• Coach product manager(s), associate product manager(s), marketing associate(s), and/or marketing interns, and provide general oversight for all digital and technology categories managed by t