Regional Product Manager

Regional leadership role focused on strategy, performance, and lifecycle of assigned product categories in the North American market.

Responsibilities

• Own the regional product portfolio and manage the full product lifecycle.
• Develop regional product strategies aligned with global category objectives.
• Identify growth opportunities through customer insights, competitive intelligence, and market analysis.
• Recommend portfolio expansion, rationalization, and product enhancements.
• Develop and support business cases for new products and product enhancements.
• Provide North American market input into the global product roadmap.
• Monitor product sales, margin, profitability, pricing, warranty trends, inventory performance, and market share.
• Analyze financial and operational performance to identify opportunities and risks.
• Develop pricing recommendations and support execution of pricing strategies.
• Drive actions to improve revenue, profitability, and overall portfolio performance.
• Serve as the Voice of the Customer for assigned product categories.
• Gather customer and market insights through customer visits, field observations, distributor engagement, and other VOC activities.
• Monitor industry trends, codes and standards, competitive activity, and emerging technologies.
• Translate customer and market insights into product improvements and future innovation opportunities.
• Partner with Global Product Management to align regional priorities with long-term product strategies.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, Product Marketing, Finance, and Customer Service to advance product and business priorities.
• Support new product development through the Stage Gate process.
• Coordinate cross-functional readiness for successful product launches.
• Influence stakeholders and drive initiatives without direct authority.
• Maintain product performance dashboards and portfolio reporting.
• Support business planning, forecasting, and portfolio performance reviews.
• Develop product documentation and business recommendations to support decision-making.
• Participate in strategic planning initiatives across the product organization.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of progressive experience in Product Management, Product Marketing, Category Management, Engineering, or Industrial Sales.
• Experience managing technical product portfolios in a B2B manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting product launches and product lifecycle management.
• Building products, plumbing, HVAC, hydronics, mechanical systems, or industrial manufacturing experience preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 20% annually.

Benefits

• Best-in-class health benefits (medical, dental, vision).
• 160 hours paid time off (combination of PTO and Employee Safe and Sick Time accruals for MN-based employees).

For more information: Uponor Employee Benefits.

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position is $88,298–$132,447 per year. The specific compensation offered may vary based on factors including relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and experience. Internal equity among current employees will also be considered.

Schedule

Hybrid position with periodic onsite work at headquarters in Apple Valley, Minnesota.