Global Product Manager

Banner Engineering•Plymouth, MN

1d•$109,341 - $174,563

About The Position

The Global Product Manager will lead the market success, growth, and lifecycle management of Banner Engineering’s Advanced Sensing portfolio within the Networking & Condition Monitoring Business Unit. The role manages and expands an established portfolio while supporting Banner’s expansion into adjacent Industrial Process and Instrumentation categories, with potential growth areas including temperature measurement, flow sensing, and future industrial process monitoring offerings. The position reports to the Sr. Director – Wireless and Condition Monitoring. The role involves developing and maintaining portfolio roadmaps, identifying market opportunities, creating product requirements and business cases, partnering with engineering through development and lifecycle management, and leading product launches and commercialization. The manager collaborates with internal teams and external partners, monitors portfolio performance, supports planning and investment decisions, and presents recommendations to business unit leadership. The position has no direct supervisory responsibilities. The role is normally based in an office environment, with occasional travel to customer and distributor sites, industry trade shows, and other facilities. Domestic and occasional international travel is required; customer-site travel by car or airplane is 20% or less. The job is based on-site in a manufacturing environment when needed and includes physical demands such as sitting for up to eight hours per day, extended computer use, frequent communication, and occasional lifting or moving of objects up to 25 pounds.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related technical discipline.
A minimum of 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.

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 the development and maintenance of portfolio roadmaps that strengthen existing products 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 new 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 launch activities, 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.