Global Product Line Manager, Micro-V Belt

About the role

Gates is a leading manufacturer of application-specific fluid power and power transmission solutions. We push the boundaries of material science to engineer solutions that continually exceed customer expectations. Our products are found in various industries such as motorcycles, conveyor belts, cars, tractors, blenders, vacuum cleaners, bicycles, and 3D printers.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the automotive, heavy-duty and industrial markets – including tracking industry indices, insights on industry trends, participating in industry organizations, consolidating Voice-of-Customer (VOC) and maintaining a view of the competitive landscape and activity.
• Be the product champion for Micro-V, actively engaging in promoting the product within the automotive and industrial markets and partnering with the Gates’ commercial team to engage with important end-customers.
• Provide global product leadership for the broader Gates Micro-V portfolio.
• Translate market/customer/regional needs, industry requirements, and trends into actionable product strategy, product roadmaps and application-driven product requirements to be integrated in new product development business cases.
• Prioritize, facilitate and drive the New Product Development and Introduction processes (NPD & NPI); Ensure that feature, quality and cost objectives are reached and that schedules are kept.
• Lead NPD commercialization process including Market Launch material preparation and product spec documentation, strategy, planning and training needs.
• Develop and manage Product Line Strategies that enable corporate strategy as well as align with key corporate initiatives.
• Support regional commercial teams with top-line accountability for the product line, including defining product line initiative KPIs as well as aligning on regional targets.
• Create and monitor global capacity of key processes and align global investment needs with forecasted requirements.
• Coordinate with all Regional Product Line Managers (RPLM) for alignment and product needs for the promotion, pipeline development, and supply chain regarding the Micro-V portfolio.
• Provide insight and support into the necessary manufacturing capabilities, capacities, and operational footprint needed to support market growth and product mix forecasts.

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, outside field sales, application engineering and/or product engineering or business development experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for sales data analysis and graphing trends.
• Strong Microsoft PowerPoint skills to deliver high quality executive-ready presentations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excited to work in the office with great teammates.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.
• Experience designing, specifying, or managing products for Automotive applications, or power transmission systems is not required, but preferred.

Pay & Benefits

• Full-Time Salary Range: $125,00 - $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
• Tuition Reimbursement