Global Program Manager MES

About the role

The Global MES Product Manager will lead the vision and execution of AGCO's Manufacturing Execution Systems product line, partnering with a focused team to shape product strategy, translate manufacturing needs into actionable priorities, and ensure that AGCO's MES solutions deliver meaningful value to manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a focused team to shape the product strategy
• Translate manufacturing needs into actionable roadmap priorities
• Ensure AGCO’s MES solutions deliver meaningful value to manufacturing operations
• Audit customer needs, evaluate competitive offerings, and use market insight to guide product recommendations, development, investment priorities, cost considerations, and long-term growth strategy
• Frequent collaboration with internal customers, our IT organization, manufacturing teams, Engineering and other product stakeholders across global regions
• Communicate clearly, build trusted relationships, facilitate productive discussions, and use sound judgment to balance customer feedback, business priorities, and operational realities
• Establish product quality expectations, support roadmap alignment, and serve as a key voice in defining how our MES portfolio evolves to meet current and future manufacturing needs

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of MES exposure or related manufacturing systems experience
• Minimum 4-5 years of Manufacturing Engineering Experience
• Align customer feedback with operational realities, business priorities, and product strategy
• Advocate for and defend product priorities with other Product Owners within the Agile Process
• Define and uphold product quality guardrails, serving as a key quality gate for customer-facing MES capabilities

Qualifications

• Hands-on manufacturing experience
• Turn fragmentation into a coherent streamlined architecture
• Bring order to a complex multi-system landscape
• Focus on UI UX means operators on the shop floor get tools that are usable not just functional, improving efficiency and reducing errors
• Own system performance to keep operations running reliably at scale
• Close partnership with the Data Lake team to turn shop-floor data into a strategic asset
• Lay the foundation for better decisions, analytics, and future AI/Automation initiatives across the company

Skills

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities
• Ability to balance customer feedback, business priorities, and operational realities
• Experience in defining and upholding product quality guardrails

Benefits

• Health care and wellness plans
• Dental and vision plans
• Flexible and virtual work options (where available)
• 401(k) Savings Plan with company match
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• Health savings and flexible spending accounts
• Reimbursement for continuing education
• Life insurance and other supplemental insurance plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan offering eligible employees the ability to purchase AGCO stock at a discounted price