Product Manager

About the role

This position can be located in Elon, NC, Allentown, PA, or Ball Ground, GA. The Product Manager is responsible for bringing OPW CES product vision to life for new product development by translating customer needs into prioritized innovation roadmaps and bringing the products to market. This role is intended to be an onsite role located at the Elon, NC site reporting to the Director of Product Management. In order to ensure success, the Product Manager must possess the following attributes: strategic thinker, bias for action, process-oriented, analytical, willing to go the extra distance to meet customer expectations, communicating succinctly with customers/senior leaders, and able to contribute to a dynamic fast‑paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage P&L including strategic planning, annual strategy deployment and budget
• Actively manage financial performance of product lines across all market segments, including bookings and gross profitability results.
• Understand and manage the impacts of product line and geographic mix.
• Establish leadership in cross‑functional New Product Development (NPD) core teams and ensure adherence to market and product requirements from pre‑concept tollgate and through product development cycle.
• Gather and represent the voice of customer and voice of business on NPD core teams and lead market discussions at monthly Product Planning Group (PPG) meetings to assess and manage risk and tradeoffs.
• Lead the development as a customer champion to identify customer pain points, user needs and ensure our products solve valuable problems in attractive segments.
• Perform market and customer insight research to deeply understand customer problems and needs and challenges and translate these