Director, Product Management

Job Description

Defines and establishes the long-term product development roadmaps and strategies for the end-market portfolio. Collaborates closely with the business segment product/technology teams, customers, OEM tech days, technology symposiums, Engine Manufacturers and strategy teams to translate corporate strategy into product portfolio strategy and to identify roadmap gaps and needs.

Owes the creation, validation and internal publication of End Market Summaries and product roadmaps. Utilizes tools and templates to drive a systematic, disciplined approach to assessing new product development initiatives, guided by corporate portfolio strategy. Conducts reviews to ensure strategic plans are successfully executed, establishing clear milestones and metrics to evaluate product strategies and related initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Defines and establishes the long-term product development roadmaps and strategies for the end-market portfolio.
• Collaborates closely with the business segment product/technology teams, customers, OEM tech days, technology symposiums, Engine Manufacturers and strategy teams to translate corporate strategy into product portfolio strategy and to identify roadmap gaps and needs.
• Owes the creation, validation and internal publication of End Market Summaries and product roadmaps.
• Utilizes tools and templates to drive a systematic, disciplined approach to assessing new product development initiatives, guided by corporate portfolio strategy.
• Conducts reviews to ensure strategic plans are successfully executed, establishing clear milestones and metrics to evaluate product strategies and related initiatives.
• Identify relevant product and market trends affecting current and future products within the portfolio.
• Facilitates prioritization of market and competitor intelligence mining, regarding new product development.
• Improve Allison Transmission’s relationships and influence over key OEMs and End Users by strengthening product management collaboration to understand customers’ product and technology roadmaps.
• Support key customer engagements and industry trade shows.
• Assesses product platform lifecycle health and product performance monitoring against value proposition.
• Works closely with internal engineering, sales, and marketing teams to ensure information is gathered and utilized to drive decisions and action plans.
• Works with internal functions of operations, purchasing, and engineering to develop cost profiles and CapEx estimates for business case analysis, integrating and optimizing customer and supplier requirements early in the process to drive profitable growth and product positioning.

Key Performance Measures

• Tracking and improvement upon measurables of cost, investment, quality and timing reflecting leadership and decision-making in a cross-functional team environment associated with continuous improvement and New Product Management initiatives that increase customer value and grow revenue and profitability; examples include tracking key cross-functional tasks associated with a customer required product change, and implementation and achievement of product cost reduction activities.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or demonstrated aptitude of relevant product management disciplines.

Preferred Education

• Master’s degree in engineering, Business Administration, or Management.

Experience

• 7+ years of transmission or automotive industry experience with cross-functional team experience and a proven record of driving results in a matrixed organization.

Knowledge

• Business and management principles (budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation).
• New Product Development (NPD) processes and program management activities.

Ability

• Influence at all levels of the business (from entry level through the CEO).

Preferred Experience

• 3+ years in a product management or product launch capacity.
• People and/or program leadership management.

Travel Requirement

• Must be able to travel 15% of the time.

Additional Information

• Must be a U.S. Person or individual otherwise eligible to be authorized to work with export-controlled items or data or perform services on military vehicles.
• Allison Transmission is an equal opportunity employer.