Product Manager - Rotary Control Valves

Core Responsibilities

Strategic Roadmap & Financial Ownership: Define the product's market boundaries, unique value proposition, and long-term positioning. Establish and meet aggressive targets for total revenue, product costs, gross margins, and global market share over 1-, 3-, and 5-year horizons.

Lifecycle & Portfolio Optimization: Define specific hardware variations, technical features, lead times, standard global market pricing, and designated sales channels alongside platform executives.

Global Systems & Configuration: Establish and control global technical product definitions within corporate sales configurators and pricing systems to ensure accurate field quoting.

Cross-Functional Project Leadership: Author and maintain bounded project charters (covering time, scope, and cost) for initiatives spanning specialized pricing, promotional marketing campaigns, R&D engineering, localization, and strategic supply chain partnerships.

Data-Driven Performance Monitoring: Audit and reconcile ROI on all project budgets. Continuously monitor post-launch metrics including order volume, hit rates, revenue, total profitability, and warranty costs.

Voice of Customer & Field Enablement: Conduct periodic joint customer site visits with Regional Sales teams to maintain a deep technical intimacy with field applications. Partner with the Educational Services Group to lead localized technical training for customers, application engineers, sales teams, and Quick Response Centers (QRCs).

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor of Science (BS) or Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Engineering, Business, or a relevant industrial field.
• Experience Baseline: 8 to 10+ years of relevant experience in a global product management, applications engineering, or high-level technical sales role focused on highly engineered specialty hardware.
• Industry Domain Expertise: A well-developed, deep technical understanding of the chemical processing, LNG, and downstream refining markets, including relevant piping systems, fluid dynamics, and the operational role of control valves in those processes.
• Financial Acumen: Strong proficiency in corporate financial principles, including evaluating capital project returns on investment (ROI), discounted cash flows (DCF), and margin variance analysis.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to build consensus and coordinate multi-disciplinary, matrixed teams (Sales, Manufacturing, R&D, Procurement) across diverse geographical regions and business cultures.
• Communications: Exceptional presentation, oral, and written communication skills with explicit experience facilitating technical workshops or executive business reviews.