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Global Product Manager - Automation

Marketing Carlsbad, California Atlanta, Georgia

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Description

Fluidra ’s looking for a Global Product Manager - Automation to join our team !

WHAT YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

The Global Product Manager focuses on building the right products to meet business goals and customer needs globally. Key attitude is “Partner & Leader”. The primary responsibility is to define and own the global product strategy and value propositions for the category, ensuring alignment with company growth objectives and market demands. The successful candidate will drive product development, manage the product portfolio, and foster innovation and operational excellence to achieve profitable revenue and market share growth while developing a sustainable competitive advantage. Additionally, you will:

1. Global Product Strategy:

+ Define and own the Pool Lighting global product strategy .

+ Develop and maintain 3- year category roadmap & research pipeline, integrating input from key stakeholders.

+ Drive portfolio performance management, tracking performance and identifying gaps/opportunities to optimize.

+ Manage SKU rationalization

+ Lead the development of key NPD inputs, including Basis-of-Interest (BOI), Business Plans & associated Financial Workbooks.

+ In New Product Development phase, secure the balance between impactful value propositions (for users and customers) and measurable product performance objectives & User Experience guidelines for the engineering teams.

2. Market and Consumer Insights:

+ Build and consistently develop a thorough understanding of the market (consumer, customer, channels, competition) through field visits, market research and interaction with regional teams

+ Develop category consumer and Customer research priorities.

+ Coordinate competitive research with Regional Product Marketing.

3. Cross-Functional Collaboration:

+ Work closely with regional product marketing teams to ensure product development aligns with local market demands.

+ Align strategy for the category within the broader context of all cleaning technologies

+ Support global launch plans with regional product marketing.

+ Support Engineering in defining and standardizing global product platforms.

+ Align with supply chain and operations teams to optimize product cost structures, sourcing strategies, and inventory management.

+ Engage with sales, finance, and operations to ensure commercial viability and operational readiness.

+ Collect and co-define white space opportunities and ideation across Fluidra with the Engineering teams.

4. Leadership and Decision- Making:

+ Foster a customer-first and global mindset, ensuring product decisions are driven by regional customer needs and market relevance.

+ Demonstrate collaborative leadership, fostering strong relationships across global and regional teams.

+ Exhibit strategic problem-solving, balancing long-term vision with immediate priorities.

+ Monitor KPIs and recommend corrective actions: margin, market shares, quality, customers & end users’ satisfaction… Be comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, triangulating a variety of sources

+ Maintain a bias for execution, ensuring product initiatives move forward efficiently with clear accountability.

WHAT WE SEEK

+ 8+ years’ product management, product marketing or application engineering experience with at least half in the residential embedded controls, IOT, or related industry. Experience with residential pools or spas is a plus

+ Strategic Marketing expertise:

+ B2B2C preferred – ideally also an experience in B2C.

+ Product portfolio strategy (brand/product/price/channel)

+ Pipeline management from idea generation to country deployment

+ Strong analytical skills: data oriented for both business analysis and technical specs.

+ Experience working in an international context, ideally driving international product strategy.

+ Ability to understand the needs of different target audiences: installer and end user

+ Ability to think strategically across brands and channels, while diving into the details of product specifications

+ Advanced communication skills, both written and verbal are a must as the role’s success depends on the ability to clarify “the problems to solve” with R&D while being impactful to champion the strategy and value propositions with regions. It is also critical to work remotely with Manager and Regional teams outside the US

+ Comfortable with technical products

+ Ability to frame value propositions: turn features into benefits and vice versa.

+ Results driven -with an ability to balance short and long term

+ Ability to travel internationally 20%

K EY BEHAVIORS

+ Can deliver value and navigate well in a functional role within a matrix environment, through a “partner & leader” attitude. Solid leadership especially in transversal mode - ability to listen, influence, lobby

+ Collaboration mindset: listening – debating constructively – deciding (when appropriate) – explaining and championing the decision

+ Self-directed and driven, with an ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously with minimal direct supervision. Positive mindset – with a “can do” attitude

+ Solid understanding of manufacturing and logistics associated with technical products and services

+ Proficient in Microsoft office, Oracle, and collaborative sharing tools

+ Looks for solutions and works constructively with others achieve results -does not blame others or the organization but champions ways to improve.

EDUCATION

Preferably, MBA and an undergraduate degree in a technology related field. However, candidates with significant training and expertise in product management will also be considered. WHAT WE OFFER

An exciting opportunity to dive in and begin your career with a company that offers a competitive total rewards package that includes:

+ Paid Vacation

+ 9/80 work week schedule (EVERY OTHER FRIDAY OFF!) with subsequent Fridays

+ 11 paid Holidays

+ Full range of health benefits including medical, dental & vision, short & long-term disability

+ 401(K) matching (100% of first 3% contributed, 50% of the next 2%)

+ Health and wellness programs / gym reimbursement

+ Educational assistance up to $7,000 per year

+ On-site self-service café / free gourmet coffee stations

+ Company sponsored FUN events!

+ Generous product discounts

WHO WE ARE

Fluidra is a publicly listed company focused on developing innovative products, services and IoT solutions for the residential, commercial and wellness pool markets, globally. The company operates in over 45 countries, has over 7,000 employees and owns a portfolio of some of the industry’s most recognized and trusted brands : Polaris®, Jandy®, CMP, S.R. Smith, and Zodiac®. We also sell products under the Cover ‐ Pools®, iAquaLink ®, Grand Effects ®, Dell® and Nature2® names. With these combined resources we’re able accelerate innovation in critical areas like energy-efficiency, robotics and the Internet of Things.

Our focus is on creating the perfect pool and wellness experience responsibly. We take our mission to heart, and our employees embody these guiding principles in everything we do: passion for success, honesty & trust, customer collaboration, teamwork and inclusion, learn and adapt, excellence and innovation.

Don't meet every single requirement listed? At Fluidra , we thrive on building an inclusive workspace, so if you are excited about this role and your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may be just the right candidate for this role or another role in the organization. Fluidra is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Fluidra recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, or any legally protected characteristic.

The expected salary range is $ 145,000 - $ 185,000 . Fluidra offers a comprehensive total rewards / benefits program that includes base salary, annual bonus based on performance of individual and company objectives, competitive 401K matching, paid vacation and sick time, full range of health benefits, educational assistance, etc. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, experience and location. Your recruiter will provide additional details on our compensation and total rewards program.

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