Associate Product Manager

Shift: 1st shift • City: Solon, Northeast Ohio, USA

About the role

The Associate Product Manager leads the development and execution of strategic plans for assigned product lines. The Associate Product Manager collaborates internally and externally to help drive profitable growth by actively managing Swagelok’s product offering, pricing and promotional strategy. Associate Product Managers support technology trend mapping to help determine product or service requirements desired by the customers to create and maintain a leading market position.

Responsibilities

• Supports the development of product vision statements, that incorporate customer, market, and competitive perspectives, as well as overall business strategy
• Owns development of product segmentation and product family roadmaps for their respective product lines
• Supports cross functional development of product strategy to achieve overall growth and profitability objectives
• Owns development and administration of product portfolios of current and future needs for their respective product lines
• Supports establishment of growth and profitability metrics for product line
• Supports product line assessment process by compiling customer feedback and financial information
• Monitors competitive product line and technology trends within target market segments and applications. (product/price/place/promotion)
• Gathers market insights on competition through internal testing, and external literature, pricing, & social media reviews to develop value proposition statements for our product lines
• Executes product management processes to gather and document customer, channel, and business insights used to establish product strategies. Assists in development and delivery of user insight reports for Product Line Managers.
• Works with organization to develop cost models, research projects and data set development building views of product cost and capacity constraints
• Supports efforts to improve KPIs
• Supports marketing function for corporate projects
• Product line support for sales and profitability analytics
• Manages notification of change process
• Owns price change initiatives for their respective product lines

Requirements

Education: BS/BA in technical or business field.

Experience: 3-5 years' experience with various aspects of Swagelok (or similar company) such as product engineering, manufacturing, customer operations, and marketing. Field sales experience is beneficial, but not required.

Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent project management and planning ability
• Above average ability to prioritize and focus efforts to achieve goals
• Basic Microsoft Office Skills including MS Project
• Business Knowledge: Organizational Awareness, Customer Focus, Swagelok Product Knowledge, Knowledge and understanding of the basic design and operation of fluid systems, Project Management
• Communication: Listening, Feedback, Oral Presentation, Influence, Written Communication
• Interpersonal: Approachability, Presence, Drive to Accomplish, Maturity
• Leadership: Integrity, Flexibility, Embraces Change
• Teamwork: Teamwork
• Critical Thinking: Decisive, Deals with Ambiguity, Continuously Learns, Cognitive Ability, Solutions-Oriented, Analytical
• Work Habits: Results Oriented, Detail Orientation, Time Management, Passion, Quality, Manages Effectively Through Systems

Benefits

Swagelok provides a comprehensive package of valuable benefits called Total Rewards focused on health and wellness, compensation, retirement planning, and supplemental rewards.