Associate Product Manager, Lighting Controls

Legrand North America•Syracuse, NY

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for an Associate Product Manager to join the Electrical Wiring Systems Pass & Seymour Team in Syracuse, NY. This role will actively support the Lighting Controls product marketing team in areas including product launches, market research, sales team support, and channel growth. This individual will also gain experience in key product management skills and manage some of their own product lines, enabling them to grow into a future product manager role. The ideal candidate is proactive and possesses strong capabilities in the area of communication, as well as a willingness to actively research new ideas, meet with customers to develop market opportunities, and support strategic marketing initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business.
Must have good verbal and written communication skills and be able to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
Must be an effective listener, distilling information into actionable insights.
Experience with electrical design, electronics and/or controls preferred.
Must possess strong project management skills, including the ability to develop and manage to a project plan, establish priorities, work to deadlines and control multiple projects at various stages of work.
Proficient in basic office applications: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
Must be highly collaborative and able to work cross functionally.

Nice To Haves

Relevant experience in electrical industry, electronics design and/or electrical controls preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage several product lines and support broader team initiatives.
Play an important role in new product development, product line maintenance, field sales and distribution channel support, and marketing strategy development.
Complete critical product marketing tasks to help achieve sales, profit and business initiative targets.
Support the product team with activities such as market analysis, competitive benchmarking, research of product ideas or trends and attendance at trade and customer events.
Engage in voice of customer through research inclusive of field visits or virtual meetings, survey creation.
Directly manage some product lines within three months of assuming role, focused on maintaining existing offer, finding ways to increase efficiency or profitability, and growing sales via line extensions/new offers.
Lead efforts to rationalize product category such as analyzing legacy lines, pruning redundant or obsolete products, and initiating activities to enhance profitability.
Participates in collateral development with marketing and sales (sell sheets, cutsheets, videos) as well as promotional campaigns.
Performs other similar and related duties as required.