Associate Product Manager

Swagelok•Solon, OH

14h•Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Product Manager leads the development and execution of strategic plans for assigned product lines. The Associate Product Manager collaborates internally and externally to help drive profitable growth by actively managing Swagelok’s product offering, pricing and promotional strategy. Associate Product Managers support technology trend mapping to help determine product or service requirements desired by the customers to create and maintain a leading market position.

Requirements

BS/BA in technical or business field.
3-5 years' experience with various aspects of Swagelok (or similar company) such as product engineering, manufacturing, customer operations, and marketing.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Excellent project management and planning ability.
Above average ability to prioritize and focus efforts to achieve goals.
Basic Microsoft Office Skills including MS Project.

Nice To Haves

Field sales experience is beneficial, but not required.

Responsibilities

Supports the development of product vision statements, that incorporate customer, market, and competitive perspectives, as well as overall business strategy
Owns development of product segmentation and product family roadmaps for their respective product lines
Supports cross functional development of product strategy to achieve overall growth and profitability objectives
Owns development and administration of product portfolios of current and future needs for their respective product lines
Supports establishment of growth and profitability metrics for product line
Supports product line assessment process by compiling customer feedback and financial information
Monitors competitive product line and technology trends within target market segments and applications. (product/price/place/promotion)
Gathers market insights on competition through internal testing, and external literature, pricing, & social media reviews to develop value proposition statements for our product lines
Executes product management processes to gather and document customer, channel, and business insights used to establish product strategies.
Assists in development and delivery of user insight reports for Product Line Managers.
Works with organization to develop cost models, research projects and data set development building views of product cost and capacity constraints
Supports efforts to improve KPIs
Supports marketing function for corporate projects
Product line support for sales and profitability analytics
Manages notification of change process
Owns price change initiatives for their respective product lines