Product Manager

Anderson-Negele, a Ralliant company, designs hygienic instrumentation for food, beverage and life sciences processors. The Product Manager owns the strategy, roadmap and commercial success of a portfolio of hygienic sensors and instrumentation, translating customer and market insights into product requirements and leading launches and portfolio performance.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product roadmap for your portfolio, balancing customer needs, technical feasibility and business return
• Build business cases for new products and enhancements, including market size, pricing, margin and launch forecasts
• Gather voice-of-customer input through site visits, interviews and work with sales and application engineers
• Write clear market and product requirements, and prioritize them with engineering through each development phase
• Lead product launches end to end: positioning, pricing, sales training, documentation and marketing materials
• Track portfolio performance (revenue, margin, quality, share) and act on what the numbers show
• Manage the product lifecycle, including end-of-life decisions and transition plans
• Monitor competitors, industry standards (such as EHEDG and 3-A) and regulatory trends that affect your products

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, a technical field or business
• 5+ years in product management, product marketing or application engineering for industrial or technical products
• A track record of taking products from concept to launch
• Strong financial sense: business cases, pricing and P&L ownership
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to align engineering, sales and leadership
• Experience with process instrumentation, sensors or automation in food, beverage, dairy or pharmaceutical markets
• Knowledge of hygienic design standards (EHEDG, 3-A, FDA) and digital connectivity technologies such as IO-Link
• Familiarity with stage-gate development
• MBA or equivalent business training