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Anderson-Negele is a global leader in precision instrumentation solutions for the food, beverage, and life sciences industries. Our market-leading solutions maximize safety and minimize waste in critical process applications, enabling the creation of essential products for the health and wellbeing of families.

Position Overview

The Head of Product Management is the driving force behind our product strategies –sparking innovation that delights customers and solves their toughest problems, propelling revenue growth, and establishing Anderson-Negele as a market leader. This dynamic role oversees the entire product lifecycle – from ideation through commercialization and sustainment – ensuring every step aligns with our business goals and market demands. By collaborating closely with customers, the industry, and internal stakeholders, the Head of Product Management ensures our portfolio stays ahead of the competition, is exceptionally customer centric, and increasingly differentiated.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Lifecycle Management:

+ Lead a team of product managers to execute a compelling product roadmap that simplifies the portfolio and aligns strategic business objectives and market opportunities. Make data-driven decisions to ensure each product adds maximum value and supports overall company goals.

+ Leverage advanced generative and agentic AI technologies to revolutionize product development and customer engagement, leading with AI to enhance decision making and differentiation, automate workflows, and improve speed to market.

+ Enthusiastically drive the entire product lifecycle – from ideation through commercialization and sustainment – with passion and precision, identifying strategic product categories and ensuring innovation wins in those categories.

+ Define world-class pricing, positioning, and value propositions that set our products apart as industry leaders – delivering unmatched value and excellence to our customers. Drive strategic adjustments with urgency.

+ Be a talent magnet. Cultivate and retain a high-performing team that demonstrates grit and resilience to meet commitments despite roadblocks and consistently delivers outstanding results.

+ Dive deep into market research and competitive analysis to distill customer needs, key industry trends, and emerging opportunities. Build strong, direct relationships with customers to gain firsthand insights and ensure our products exceed their expectations.

+ Partner closely with cross functional peers, collaborate, and gain cross followership to drive business success and facilitate the execution of our product strategy.

Key Qualifications & Experience:

+ Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field; MBA preferred.

+ 10+ years of experience in product management (HW + SW), ideally within industrial instrumentation, process automation, or related industries.

+ Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret market data and translate insights into strategy.

+ Proven experience in successfully launching and managing products in global markets.

+ Excellent leadership, communication, and project management skills.

+ Ability to travel internationally up to 40%

Why Join Anderson-Negele?

+ Be part of a market-leading company known for innovation and quality.

+ Lead strategic product initiatives that drive business growth.

+ Work in a collaborative and customer-focused environment with career advancement opportunities.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 17,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

About Anderson-Negele

Anderson-Negele is an instrumentation company whose mission is to provide the best hygienic instrumentation solutions for processors of food, beverage and life sciences products. We have manufacturing facilities in the US and Germany and sales & service offices in the U.S., Europe, China, India, and Brazil.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at [email protected].

Pay Range

The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 152,600.00 - 283,400.00

The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 152,600.00 - 283,400.00

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at [email protected].