Global Product Manager

Banner Engineering Career•Plymouth, MN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Global Product Manager leads market success, growth, and lifecycle management for Banner Engineering’s Advanced Sensing portfolio within the Networking & Condition Monitoring Business Unit. The role manages an established portfolio while supporting expansion into adjacent industrial process and instrumentation categories, potentially including temperature measurement, flow sensing, and future industrial process monitoring offerings. The position reports to the Sr. Director – Wireless and Condition Monitoring. The manager develops portfolio roadmaps, identifies market opportunities, builds product requirements and business cases, and partners with engineering and commercial teams through product development and launch. The role also monitors portfolio performance and supports planning and investment decisions. The position has no direct supervisory responsibilities. The position is normally based in an office, with occasional travel to customers, distributors, other facilities, or industry trade shows. Work takes place in a climate-controlled corporate office and requires frequent interaction with internal teams and external partners. Domestic and occasional international travel is required; travel to customer sites is stated as 20% or less.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related technical discipline.
3–5 years of product management, application engineering, technical marketing, or business development experience.
Demonstrated success managing and growing industrial technology product portfolios.
Strong understanding of industrial sensing technologies and customer applications.
Experience conducting market analysis, competitive assessments, and customer research.
Strong communication, presentation, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Ability to influence decisions and drive results without direct authority.
Availability for domestic and occasional international travel.
Ability to work on-site in a manufacturing environment and travel to other facilities when needed.
Ability to travel by car or airplane to customer sites, stated as 20% or less.
Regular attendance is required.

Nice To Haves

Industry experience in industrial automation, sensing, condition monitoring, instrumentation, or process control.
Experience with temperature measurement technologies, including RTDs, thermocouples, thermal monitoring, or related industrial sensing applications.
Experience with flow measurement, industrial instrumentation, process monitoring, or related sensing technologies.
Experience serving water/wastewater, food and beverage, chemical processing, energy, pharmaceutical, data center, or manufacturing industries.
Experience managing global product portfolios.
Knowledge of industrial networking, IIoT, predictive maintenance, or condition monitoring solutions.
Familiarity with Banner Engineering products and solutions.

Responsibilities

Own and manage the Advanced Sensing portfolio, including established condition monitoring solutions and strategic adjacent growth initiatives.
Contribute to developing and maintaining portfolio roadmaps that strengthen existing offerings and support expansion into adjacent process sensing technologies and instrumentation markets.
Drive portfolio growth through enhancements to existing product families and development of strategic adjacent offerings in process sensing applications.
Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify product and market opportunities.
Develop product requirements and business cases for product enhancements and adjacent portfolio additions.
Partner with engineering teams throughout product development and lifecycle management.
Lead new product launches, including positioning, pricing, sales enablement, and commercialization.
Work with sales, marketing, business development, distributors, OEMs, and end users to identify growth opportunities.
Monitor product performance, revenue growth, profitability, market share, and customer adoption.
Support annual planning, forecasting, and portfolio investment prioritization.
Present portfolio recommendations and market insights to business unit leadership.
Lead and participate in special projects as assigned.
Perform other duties as assigned.