• Director of Product Management

    Insight Global (Westerville, OH)


    Job Description

    A client of Insight Global is seeking a Director of Product Management that will be responsible for developing and implementing business strategies for increasing market penetration and profits across all product families. Managing a product marketing, marketing, and pricing team the incumbent will own the Growth, Profit, Lifecycle Management, and Product Strategy for assigned products. They will provide global leadership for organizing all aspects of their assigned business area including market research, new product introduction and growth initiatives, product management, product roadmaps, pricing, promotions, sales channel training, cost reductions, etc.

    Position Responsibilities:

    Lead product management for global product families and markets. Develop, lead, and communicate clear strategic initiatives to achieve growth and profit targets

     

    Develop product strategies and roadmaps across all product lines

     

    Drive new product development initiatives and, at times, act as a project manager to ensure customer-needed features and benefits are delivered on time and on budget

    Optimize product line profitability for each product line within the assigned business area by:

    Maximizing price based on lifecycle analysis and market dynamics as well as the full value proposition offered by the client (i.e. – technology, delivery, quality, speed, etc.)

     

    Partnering with Operations to drive out cost

     

    Determine the optimal prices for the Company’s products or services globally; oversee pricing process, implementation, and communication to customers globally

     

    Partner with Sales for areas of product lines including price, voice of customer, market readiness, marketing plan, sales, channel, and customer acquisition to achieve growth targets

     

    Partner with Operations and Supply Chain for cost including design for manufacturing, ongoing manufacturing cost improvements, and Supply Chain cost/availability to achieve profitability targets

     

    Partner with Mar Coms and Engineering to maintain a clear understanding of changing competitive landscape and product innovation

     

    Continuously assess customer line profitability for opportunities across business area, product lines and families to grow margins

     

    Own life cycle management of business area and continuously assesses product performance versus plan, product strategic positioning, and product risk mitigation necessities given changing technologies and customer dynamics

     

    Collaborate with customers, external partners and market experts, and internal cross-functional team members to identify and drive growth initiatives via New Product Introduction (NPI) Process

     

    Effectively manage a globally dispersed team; develop and motivate an effective product management organization

     

    Other duties as assigned

     

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    Skills and Requirements

     

    7+ years of relevant industry and product management

     

    Need to have experience building out road maps in a manufacturing or industrial, business to business organization

     

    Ideally with a company that manufactures components

     

    3+ years effectively managing a team

     

    Need to be a hands-on leader

     

    Prior experience supporting a multi-site environment

     

    Global presence is a big plus Prior experience growing product lines

     

    Prior experience working for and with a private equity firm

     

    Experience with Oracle