Global Product Line Manager , Engine Metals

About the role

Gates Corporation is seeking a Global Product Line Manager, Engine Metals to lead the global strategy and financial performance of the Engine Metals product portfolio. This role supports profitable growth across regions while ensuring strong alignment between global strategy and regional needs.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, maintenance, and execution of the global Engine Metals product line strategy and roadmap in alignment with the Multi-Generational Product Plan (MGPP).
• Own defined segments, platforms, or initiatives within the Engine Metals portfolio, ensuring consistency in positioning, coverage, and value proposition across regions.
• Translate global strategy into actionable initiatives, tools, and plans for regional teams.
• Help drive achievement of global revenue, margin, and profitability targets for the Engine Metals product line.
• Support pricing strategy development, portfolio cost management, and productivity initiatives that improve product line financial health.
• Develop, present, own, and action the global product line strategies – including defining the product road map, key global strategic initiatives, cost out initiatives, and overall growth plans for the product line. Define the growth elements to the Long Range Financial Forecast (LRFF) to ensure the required capacity and investments are made in the right locations to enable the targeted growth.
• Maintain deep knowledge of the Engine Metals market, including applications, customer needs, competitive landscapes, and technology trends.
• Maintain competitor benchmarking and portfolio analyses to identify growth opportunities and portfolio gaps.
• Support portfolio rationalization, coverage expansion, and cost-out initiatives to improve competitiveness.
• Support scoping, business case development, and prioritization of new product development initiatives.
• Lead or co-lead product commercialization efforts, including value propositions, positioning, launch materials, and sales enablement tools.
• Work with regional teams to track launch effectiveness and adoption KPIs.
• Act as a key liaison between global strategy and regional execution teams.
• Provide insights, data, tools, and training materials to support regional product managers and commercial teams.
• Assist with evaluation of inorganic growth opportunities, including market assessments, portfolio overlap analysis, and synergy identification.

Requirements and Preferred Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Business or Marketing from an accredited institution required;
• Minimum of 8 years of marketing, product management, outside field sales, application engineering and/or product engineering or business development experience
• Experience in Engine Metals, power transmission, engine components, or adjacent industrial/automotive markets preferred
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for sales data analysis and graphing trends
• Strong Microsoft PowerPoint skills to deliver high quality executive-ready presentations
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time, including international travel
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excited to work in the office with great teammates

Pay & Benefits

• Full-Time
• Salary Range: $125,000 - $150,000
• Bonus Eligible
• Relocation is not provided
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance and other voluntary benefit options: benefits begin on the first day of the month immediately following your date of hire
• Eligible for 3 weeks of paid vacation + 11 holidays (9 scheduled & 2 floating) + 8 sick days. All vacation days are accrued
• 401(k): 3% company contribution and additional 3% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement