Product Manager-Manufacturing
Location
Plymouth, MN | United States
Job description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Be the product leader for your line of products by defining, communicating, and executing against the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Develop the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures.
- Have a deep understanding of the market competition’s strategies, products, strengths, and positioning, relative to TCF’s equivalents.
- Gather, manage, and prioritize market/customer requirements.
- Be the customer advocate, articulating the user’s and/or buyer’s needs.
- Work closely with engineering, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and supply chain to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met.
- Align and influence operational capabilities and capacity to achieve the product vision & strategy roadmap.
- Have technical product knowledge or specific application expertise for TCF products.
- Participate in active selling efforts, especially during new product launches, product improvements and product line expansions.
- Lead price strategy development and active management of day-to-day pricing execution.
- Support quote development for unique design specials.
- Provide strategic input to supply chain on select sourced materials.
- Maintain a deep understanding of the reasons and methods that customers select, specify, and ultimately purchase TCF products.
- Define product marketing communication objectives and collaborate with sales and marketing to execute against these objectives.
- Develop training for internal and external customer covering your line of products, including market positioning and value proposition.
- Travel up to 25%, visiting representatives, customers, vendors, TCF manufacturing facilities, and job sites.
- Ability to consistently demonstrate the TCF Leadership Competencies – being reflective, inquisitive, highly communicative, and a leader of inspiration and change.
- Live, Act, and Behave by TCF Core Values
- All other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS: - Bachelor’s Degree Engineering, Business, Marketing or related field, MBA preferred.
- 5+ years of product management, application engineering or product engineering experience required, preferably in the HVAC/fan and blower field.
- Excellent people skills with ability to interact at all levels of the organization, including colleagues, cross-functional peers, executives, customers, and third parties.
- Ability to analyze relevant information and make informed decisions.
- Keen focus on customer-centric and data-driven approach to problem solving
- Strong technical aptitude and desire to learn more.
- High interest in manufacturing technologies, product design/development, and/or other similar engineering disciplines.
- High level of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness with strong work ethic and the ability to work independently with minimal direction.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS: - Standard office environment
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 20 pounds
- Ability to occasionally climb, balance, stoop, kneel, reach
- Ability to work extended hours
This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment, nor is it an all-inclusive list of responsibilities. Twin City Fan Companies, Ltd. reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as business needs arise. Qualifications are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and experience required.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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