Global Product Manager (Chemistry)

Hach • Loveland, CO

9h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Product Manager (GPM) is a key strategic position within the Advanced Chemistries Business Unit. As the Global Product Manager, you will own the performance and overall lifecycle of your respective product line. The GPM drives growth by leading the assigned product strategic plan for the respective verticals and applications. This includes understanding customer pain points, the interconnectedness of Hach’s solutions and developing and executing strategies to drive growth with existing customers and discovering new opportunities. This role will ensure alignment with the regional commercial, marketing, service, R&D, and operations teams. A successful GPM is customer focused, strategic, action oriented, has a strong organizational agility and leads by influence to identify and implement growth initiatives. Further, a GPM leads new product launches and commercialization. This position is part of the Advanced Chemistries Business Unit team located in Loveland, Colorado, and will be hybrid.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field; MBA preferred
• Minimum 2 years of experience; product management / commercial experience preferred
• Strong critical thinking skills: ability to synthesize a collection of facts into logical and actionable conclusions
• Strong written and oral communication skills for direct communication with customers, colleagues, and partners at all levels and across all functions and regions of the organization
• Able to elicit and understand customer needs and translate customer needs into product requirements
• Able to identify and prioritize the tasks necessary to meet long- and short-term objectives, effectively manage time and multi-task to achieve these objectives
• Must be able to travel up to 20% of the time; both domestic and international

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall success of relevant products including achievement of revenue, margin, and technical performance/quality metrics
• Support development and execution of strategy for portfolio growth by understanding global market trends and prioritizing strategic initiatives
• Drive Launch Excellence through development of product go-to-market strategy to ensure critical success metrics are achieved for new products and commercial initiatives
• Establish/maintain value proposition for New Product Introduction and existing products
• Develop evidence driven competitive strategy to ensure that our products and solutions are differentiated and defensible
• Build 1–3-year global product forecasts for on-market products.
• Identify and prioritize product-specific evidence generation to support market shaping strategies
• Inform NPD roadmap decisions and product definitions; develop/validate business cases for new product opportunities
• Identify market trends and needs for products and ensure that product designs match customer demand while delivering profitable market share

Benefits

• paid time off
• medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level