Portfolio Director - Residential

A. O. Smith Corporation • Ashland City, TN

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Accountable for developing and deploying a comprehensive product vision and strategy to ensure the financial health and viability within the business. Responsible for product segments representing significant revenue and/or complexity (product families, channels, etc....) to A.O. Smith.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university in Business or Technical Field with minimum of 7 years of related experience in Product Development and/or Product Management.
• Outstanding all around communication skills including verbal, written, and technical to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to understand and articulate financial implications of product line decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive relationships at all levels of the organization and within customer value chain.
• Strategic thinker, passionate and driven to succeed.
• Demonstrates motivation and potential to move into higher leadership roles.

Nice To Haves

• MBA strongly preferred.
• Applicable water related industry knowledge and the experience of the certification process to bring products to market is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Product lifecycle from conception to end of life
• Using the AOSNPD process, ensure new products are launched on-time and meet market and cost requirements by managing the abnormal and driving the organization to make the critical decisions on-time.
• Identify sustaining product activities to be completed to ensure business needs are met.
• Responsible for the creation and maintenance of assigned segment strategies.
• Responsible for developing 3-year product plans for the assigned product lines. The plans are to be updated no less than annually or as market conditions require.
• Drive alignment on product strategies and roadmaps with the business leadership team to ensure appropriate support from all business functions as part of the product planning and development activities.
• Direct, Manage and Develop Product Management resources to support the needs of the product strategy and development activities.
• Represents customer needs and deliver products that best meet market needs.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify new product opportunities and ensure current product lines are competitive.
• Identify potential risks, assess their impact, and develop risk mitigation strategies.
• Ensure compliance with regulations and industry standards.
• Implement planning and actions to minimize risks.
• Timely decision-making skills
• Guide individuals and teams to make sound decisions.
• Make sound decisions and communicate effectively how and why a decision was made
• Comfortable functioning with a high degree of ambiguity
• Delegates work to lowest and appropriate level in the organization
• Lead by influence to coordinate cross-functional product activities to drive profitable growth
• Ensuring health and financial viability by monitoring P&L and identify opportunities to optimize financial performance.
• Develop, execute, and maintain a communication strategy to ensure that all relevant departments have timely and accurate product information to perform their roles in the organization.
• Manage relationships and agreements with third party vendors who supply re-sell products to the business.
• Provide teams with a sense of urgency to ensure tasks and projects are completed to meet timelines.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees