Product Management Manager

The Product Manager is responsible for working cross-functionally to optimize the way we offer machines, effecting the way we engineer machines, and ultimately the way we build machines. This role prices, promotes, and assigns placement of our products specific to end markets. Manages from ideation to execution of market-based systems and solutions as it relates to equipment. It will also be the catalyst for new product development, new configurations, and option development.

Responsibilities/Objectives

• Build and implement product strategies consistent with company vision.
• Retrieve and analyze feedback from customers٫ stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements٫ features and end products.  Includes VOC and Net Promoter Score.
• Collaborate with senior management to create product plans and roadmaps.
• Lead SIOP demand planning and actively participate in balancing meetings
• Prepare and review product requirements documents
• Organize product releases properly and align with engineering/operations on schedule
• Trade show point person and NPE cell leader
• Pricing/Customer Quotes
• Provide commercial input for product launches & sunsets, growth, new product sizes, new markets, product life cycle, manufacturing/assembly plan, and global product line alignment
• Product line development & health assessments with timely report out to OLT
• Sales product training
• Understanding and reporting of the competitive landscape including gaps, where they play, how they win, mfg/assembly footprint, annual sales
• Financial tracking, margin analysis, forecast planning & pipeline management
• Product updates, including new options configurations, sales app uploads, and marketing/brochure updates
• Monthly reporting regarding market conditions, competitive behavior, market share, sales and margin results.
• Understand overall business strategy and support with execution

Skills/Experience

Required

• 5+ years' experience of working in Product Management or other relevant position.
• Expertise in driving innovation and optimizing processes across the entire product lifecycle, with a focus on future scalability and continuous improvement.
• Strong organizational٫ leadership and communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills with creative approach

Preferred

Education

• BA or BS in engineering, marketing, or business-related field.

Travel

• 25-30% travel

Core Competencies

• MS Office
• Strong written and verbal communicator
• Customer and marketing acumen
• Financial acumen

Physical Demands

To perform this job successfully, the physical demands listed are representative of those that must be met by an employee. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle and feel, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear. The employee may occasionally be required to crouch. The employee may occasionally lift items as heavy as 10 lbs. Specific vision abilities may include the employee’s ability to see near and far distances.

DISCLAIMER: The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by the employee within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of any employee assigned to this job. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Who we are: 

Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.

EEO: The policy of Milacron is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.  We are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offer opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities.  If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at [email protected]. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.