Senior Product Manager

CentroMotion is a company focused on developing innovative products and business strategies. The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for overseeing the global product strategy for gauge, cluster, and displays, including market analysis, product development, and lifecycle management.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and recommend product roadmap plans used to develop global strategic goals. This is accomplished through
• Conducting market studies, including VOC to understand new/adjacent market opportunities and assess viability
• Integrating market product position (feature, benefit, value) for support of product design definitions
• Validating value propositions to differentiate product lines
• Analyzing competitive landscape threats, opportunities and market and technology trends
• Analyzing new product concept viability including sales volume, price, cost, margin and profit potential
• Direct the implementation of the global product line strategic plan to prioritize and maximize company and product line profitability and investments
• Develop new product business case and required documents
• Direct Go-to-Market strategies for assigned new projects. This includes working with marketing on collateral development
• Manage the portfolio profitability by reviewing and taking actions to maintain the overall portfolio gross margin through pricing actions, product obsolescence, or internal cost reduction initiatives
• Manage the product family life cycle. As product goes through its maturity cycle, determine when upgrades (e.g., software or hardware) need to be planned and phased in. Also, given how technology changes, when it is important to phase out the product and how it will be replaced
• Manage the Engineer Service Request (ESR Process) PM gateway process. This includes coordinating activities to ensure completion of the quoting process

Requirements:

• Develop and recommend product roadmap plans used to develop global strategic goals
• Conducting market studies, including VOC to understand new/adjacent market opportunities and assess viability
• Integrating market product position (feature, benefit, value) for support of product design definitions
• Validating value propositions to differentiate product lines
• Analyzing competitive landscape threats, opportunities and market and technology trends
• Analyzing new product concept viability including sales volume, price, cost, margin and profit potential
• Direct the implementation of the global product line strategic plan to prioritize and maximize company and product line profitability and investments
• Develop new product business case and required documents
• Direct Go-to-Market strategies for assigned new projects. This includes working with marketing on collateral development
• Manage the portfolio profitability by reviewing and taking actions to maintain the overall portfolio gross margin through pricing actions, product obsolescence, or internal cost reduction initiatives
• Manage the product family life cycle. As product goes through its maturity cycle, determine when upgrades (e.g., software or hardware) need to be planned and phased in. Also, given how technology changes, when it is important to phase out the product and how it will be replaced
• Manage the Engineer Service Request (ESR Process) PM gateway process. This includes coordinating activities to ensure completion of the quoting process
• Ability to make recommendations and execute strategy that puts the business in a position to sustainably grow while outpacing competitive maneuvers
• Ability to conduct both OEM and aftermarket research
• Knowledge of project management techniques and project charters to maintain focus
• Ability to generate and develop new and creative concepts based on Customer's unmet needs
• Responds promptly to customer needs; Solicits customer feedback to improve service; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meets commitments
• Treats people with respect; Keeps commitments; Inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values
• Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events
• BS/BA degree in Business or Engineering or relative technical field or equivalent previous experience
• Product management experience (prefer 5+ years)
• This position requires some travel (i.e., to customers and non-customer sites in North America and internationally (= 25%)
• Comprehensive knowledge of products and their applications: instrumentation & displays, preferably in mobile off-highway products (e.g., Construction equipment) and applications. This includes hardware and software development applications
• Experience in Microsoft Office Applications, Power-BI, Smartsheet