Group Platform Manager - Cordless Products

Milwaukee Tool•Brookfield, WI

23h•Onsite

About The Position

Milwaukee Tool is searching for a Group Platform Manager- Cordless Products to join and expand our Cordless Platform Management team, leading the strategy, definition, and evolution of our cordless systems. This role is responsible for managing our cordless systems as products by translating cordless system stakeholder needs into a clear roadmap of system capabilities and defined performance tiers. You will partner closely with our product category leaders, system engineers, and fellow platform managers to ensure our cordless systems deliver best-in-class experiences and products that drive growth across the business. This is a highly cross-functional role that requires strong leadership, systems thinking, and the ability to align product category teams and engineering teams around a shared vision for our cordless systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, product development, or another customer-oriented related field is recommended.
10+ years of experience in product and/or platform management.
Experience influencing and aligning stakeholders without direct authority.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Solid customer orientation, core understanding of the user lifecycle journey and user needs, and how user insight and user strategy drive experience.
Strong planning and organizational skills required with the demonstrated ability to balance competing demands.
Ability to travel 25-30% of the year.
Proficiency in PC skills including MS Office and Internet usage is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Agile frameworks, phase-gate processes framework.
Basic technical understanding of power tool technology.
Experience working on hardware systems, product ecosystems, or platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead defining and driving a long-term vision and strategy of our M12 system that supports the product category and company strategies.
Translate end-user and business stakeholder needs into system capabilities, performance targets, and user experience expectations.
Lead efforts to establish a deep understanding of how end-users evaluate investing in a cordless power tool system.
Translate data-backed field research into actionable problem statements that drive system and business value.
Build and maintain a commercial & business outcomes-based roadmap that maximizes the commercial impact of the proposed system upgrades.
Lead commercial and business system initiatives from initial concept through scoping, product adoption commitment, launch, and future improvements.
Ensure platforms and capabilities are designed to support future improvements and product coverage.
Partner with business units to ensure they can build the best products while upholding the end-user and business expectations of the system.
Serve as the system champion, driving commercial launch objectives and success metrics for new and enhanced capabilities.
Collaborate with engineering & product management leaders to define and deliver system upgrades.
Align critical stakeholders around initiative priorities, trade-offs, and launch timing.
Define and maintain system standards for compatibility and shared user experiences across our systems.
Work with product management leaders to balance driving system consistency with product category differentiation.
Establish a strong culture of extreme ownership, accountability, system thinking, and a user-first mindset.