Associate Product Manager/Product Manager

Pentair

Pentair is 30,000 employees strong. We work around the globe to deliver industry leading products, services and solutions for our customers' diverse needs in water and other fluids, thermal management and equipment protection. Our inventive thinking, collaborative spirit, disciplined work ethic and breadth of experts allows us to deliver inspired solutions for a changing world. Through our capabilities as a company, our innovative products and our Win Right values, we have the opportunity to define a clear and compelling role for Pentair in the global community.

Pentair's Flow Technologies GBU, formerly known as Residential Flow, is a leading provider of residential water pumps, irrigation and crop spray equipment, and marine and specialty pumps and accessories. Key markets include residential end users, waste water dealers and distributors, and agricultural irrigation, and crop protection industries. It also provides specialty application water management products for recreational vehicles (RV), marine, and mobile fire markets. Flow Technologies brands include STA-RITE, Myers, Hydromatic, Flotec, Water Ace, Berkeley, Aermotor, Simer, Hypro, FoamPro, SHURflo, Onga, Nocchi and JUNG.

We are looking for Associate Product Managers and Product Managers to join the Pentair team!

Successful candidates will own the assigned products through their entire life cycle. Led by rigorous Voice of the Customer research, the Product Manager is responsible for managing the assigned product families including new product development, existing product line management & enhancements, and coordination of market positioning. Additionally, the Product Manager acts as the internal "expert" for assigned product sets, including their applications, the competition, and end user demand drivers.

http://www.thermal.pentair.com


Position Details

Associate Product Manager/Product Manager
Job
Full-time
Office/WFH
100% remote
6/19/2013
Minnesota
New Brighton, MN

We are looking for Associate Product Managers and Product Managers to join the Pentair team!

Major Areas of Accountability:

New Product Development -

  • Researches and recommends new products and services for market opportunities consistent with corporate capabilities and objectives.
  • Collaborates with various stakeholders on the development of product launch plans and manages the introduction of new products to the sales channel/market.
  • Conducts voice of the customer (VOC) activities to create new product specs that solve customer problems.
  • Conduct cost analysis, competitive comparisons and value analysis to determine new product pricing.
  • Develop pro forma with complete financial analysis and sales forecast of all proposed new products.

Product Life Cycle Management -

  • Determines positioning of products and services considering price, volume, share and profitability.
  • Ensures that assigned product families are responsive to market needs to maintain and/or improve market penetration and share position.
  • Monitors and assesses competitive products and communicates back through the organization and field sales force to keep everyone well informed.

Product Leadership -

  • Communicates with and influences various stakeholders in the development of annual strategic marketing plans and integration of new product launches into those plans.
  • Directs the implementation of product plans for assigned products and coordinates cross-functional activities. Acts as Project Leader for New Product Development projects on the front end definition phase (Discovery) and back end launch phase of assigned projects. Acts as primary source of customer input to key decisions and tradeoffs throughout the development process.
  • Manage product specification, quality, cost and data integrity as it relates to the product family.

Product Sales Tools -

  • Serves as subject matter expert for assigned product families to support internal team, field sales, distributors and end customers as required.
  • Supports various stakeholders with technical specifications and differentiating features in the development of selling & training collateral including: instruction manuals, literature, web, space ads, trade shows, PR, etc.

Ideal Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or Engineering preferred
  • 2-7 years of "hands on" product management/marketing experience in a durable goods, B2B environment
  • MBA an asset
  • Ability to understand and market a technical product set
  • Experience with pumps, turbines, hydraulics, or control systems
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams in a manufacturing environment
  • Demonstrated success at defining, developing and launching breakthrough new products
  • Experience with distribution channels
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

Competitive.



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