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There’s never been a better time to join our team. The thousands of ESAB associates located around the world share a common set of goals and values that drive our success and unparalleled innovation in fabrication technology and specialty gas control equipment. At ESAB, we value and respect everyone’s uniqueness and know that our experiences as individuals strengthen our company. And we know that our ability to collaborate, transform, and empower one another is what makes us unstoppable.
With our culture of continuous improvement and innovation and our commitment to living our values, working at ESAB is a career experience like no other. We have more than 9,000 passionate associates in locations across six continents, and we empower our team members to shape the world we imagine every day.
If you have a strong desire to be part of a team that delivers cutting-edge innovations and solutions and positively impacts the community, please check out our career opportunities. We help serve a diverse range of industries such as healthcare, automotive, aerospace, renewable energy, robotics, shipbuilding, and so much more.
Your Opportunity:Reporting to the Director of Global Product Management, you will be responsible for leading the Stoody & Hard-facing product category as a strategic business unit. In this role, you will focus on driving market share growth and margin expansion through continuous product improvement, proactive portfolio management, and the development of new product initiatives for ESAB.
You will apply your industry expertise, technical acumen, and keen understanding of customer needs and market trends to consistently deliver above-market performance. This position requires a unique combination of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, blending business insight with technical depth to translate vision into results.
Collaboration across functions is essential. You will work closely with cross-functional teams—including R&D, Sales, Marketing, Strategy, and Marcom—to define product requirements, customer value propositions, and go-to-market strategies. As the champion for your product category, you will support internal alignment and external engagement, including customer meetings and the development of targeted channel strategies.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:Develop and maintain overall product plans for the assigned product platforms. This requires a thorough review and analysis of current performance, portfolio health, supply chain, market needs, trends, and other data
Translating customer VOCs and ideas into product road maps.
Evaluation of product vision and scope to define high level and detailed requirements for product implementation. Interview user groups, meet with customers and develop use cases with the appropriate Regional Lead.
Analysis of incoming feature requests and customer needs translating data points investment business case.
Coordinate with other ESAB businesses to ensure solution selling - compatibility and efficiency of development.
Work with the R&D development team to ensure adherence to product vision and scope throughout development cycle, low volume manufacturing. Hand off to ISC occurs when high volume manufacturing is sustained.
Work with project teams and Marcom to plan and execute product launches, including technical documentation, product webinars, promotional and related items.
Overall responsibility for each of the products in your product platform, from ideation to release. This includes all aspects of functionality, quality, packaging, documentation etc.
Assist in and drive productivity savings through raw materials sourcing and strategic outsourcing projects.
Animate an effective management operating system to drive research on emerging needs, product solutions and innovative technologies. Participate and drive knowledge sharing | ideation from data gathered at relevant trade shows, external customer meetings, benchmark exercises.
Support Sales, ISC and Manufacturing on product ramps & launches, to eliminate obsolescence and slow-moving inventory. Passionately consolidate product GINs driving vitality and margin improvement
Ensure that relevant data and self-help portals are up to date, accurate and easily searchable.
Work with the Manufacturing, Sales, ISC and Marketing to undertake 80-20 analysis, addressing the bottom 20%.
Work with Sales, Marketing and Strategy to develop product pricing strategy for existing and new products.
Provide guidance and direction on the functional test plans as performed by Quality Assurance.
Work with the development team to create application engineering, product demos and product showcases helping to shape the content according to the customer and sector segmentation.
Manage feature requests during the lifecycle of the product lines, creating margin on the cost to serve and communalizing non-standard requests.
Leverage analytical tools to forecast raw material and vertical trends, coordinate with Sourcing to have most favored nation pricing.
Bachelor Degree in Product Management, Master’s preferred
8 years of relevant experience
Superior interpersonal communication skills.
Strong leadership skills.
Demonstrable prior Team management
Effective communicator, adept at asking leading questions.
Curious agile learner
Clear understanding of the product-to-market process.
Strong creative and influence skills.
Ability to be forward thinking and analyze impacts of different scenarios on the existing products and their platforms.
Proficiency in project management
Proficient in business finance
Technology or business administration degree from an accredited educational institution in an appropriate field of study.
Ongoing and adequate experience in
Team management experience preferred.
Pay Range: 116,186.00 - 135,534.00
The ESAB Group Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, child and elder‑care support, and access to caregiving services are included. Feedback suggests these family‑oriented supports add meaningful value for many employees.
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ESAB is a world leader in the production of welding consumables and equipment. Our brand is synonymous with world-leading expertise in the following key areas: * Manual welding and cutting equipment * Welding consumables * Welding automation * Cutting systems Celebrating 110 years since its founding, ESAB now serves a global market. We are represented in almost every country by subsidiaries or agents providing sales and support. ESAB also has manufacturing plants across four continents. Manufacturers everywhere are looking for ways to improve productivity and reduce operating costs. One way to achieve this goal is to align with a welding and cutting partner that offers a complete line of innovative solutions that meet the current demands of industry. ESAB has led the way in research and development of better technologies and products for this industry since its founding. ESAB has many great minds working on ways to make our industry stronger and better able to meet the needs of the future. We are constantly striving to expand our product offerings – from the best in traditional welding applications to large automated manufacturing facilities. ESAB continues to offer world-class technical support and educational opportunities to help our customers work smarter and better. We are dedicated to working with customers to help them be more productive, more profitable, and better able to compete. The ESAB group has been owned by Colfax Corporation since January 13, 2012. To learn more visit our website at www.esab.com and choose your region to begin
