Product Line Leader - Advanced Nuclear

Crane Company•Twinsburg, OH

About The Position

Crane Nuclear is seeking an Advanced Nuclear Product Line Leader to develop and drive long-term planning and strategy for Nuclear Growth, including Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), Advanced Nuclear Technologies, and Pressurized Water Reactors. This role involves cultivating executive-level customer relationships, leading opportunity strategy and capture planning, and optimizing integrated processes. The leader will identify, develop, and present strategies and business cases to senior leaders, ensuring alignment with project management, operations, and engineering teams. The position requires monitoring market trends, including regulatory shifts and competitive dynamics, and ensuring compliance with safety and business ethics guidelines. The role also involves segmenting, targeting, and positioning products/services, developing supply strategies, and leading New Product Introduction (NPI) planning and proposal development. Participation in Stage Gate product and technology development teams and representing the organization in external forums are also key responsibilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business from an accredited university or college
Minimum of 8 years in cross-functional leadership roles.
Minimum of 5+ years in sales, operations, engineering, or technical support.
Financial acumen with previous responsibility for financial success of a business or project.
Excellent customer relationship skills resulting in business growth.
Ability to plan, document, market, and execute programs.
Established project management skills with familiarity with Systems Engineering processes and Agile Project Management methodology.
Strong analytical, organizational, collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrated problem-solving skills with a focus on achieving results.
Familiarity with ISO 9001 and other regulatory standards
Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft Office tools (PowerPoint, Excel, and Word)
Proven success working within highly regulated environments (nuclear, medical, food, etc.)
Must be able to travel for customer & supplier visits (domestic and international; up to 40% annually).
Must be a results-oriented self-starter with excellent leadership and relationship skills.
Ability to develop, learn and adapt to new systems, processes, and programs as needed

Responsibilities

Develop and drive long-term planning and strategy for Nuclear Growth (SMRs, Advanced Nuclear Technologies, Pressurized Water Reactors)
Cultivate executive-level and working-level customer relationships across all levels of the customer organization; develop strategic partnerships to enable full-scope project solutions.
Act as the voice of the customer, proactively identifying emerging needs, influencing product roadmaps, and collaborating with customers on specifications, licensing considerations, and application requirements.
Lead opportunity strategy and capture planning, including win themes, competitive positioning, pricing strategy, and risk mitigation; support proposal development and lead commercial negotiations.
Lead product line annual planning driving accountability across functional and business areas.
Optimize and integrate processes meeting both internal and external needs.
Identify, develop and present strategies and business cases, technical roadmaps, risks and associated risk mitigation plans to senior leaders across the business with plans being developed collaboratively across the product line.
Work with project management, operations, and engineering teams to ensure expectations are being met.
Working with the commercial team and key technology experts, develop long-term customer relationships both domestic and international.
Monitor and analyze market trends, including regulatory shifts, reactor deployment timelines, funding programs, and competitive dynamics to inform strategy and business decisions.
Comply with all safety and corporate guidelines on business ethics.
Proactively identify appropriate segmenting, targeting, and positioning of product/service in the competitive landscape.
Work with Supply Chain to identify and create supply strategies and cost targets.
Lead the NPI planning phase and deliver commercial success in coordination with commercial, operations, and technology stakeholders; this includes leading proposal development efforts from creating basis of estimates through pricing and senior leadership reviews.
Participate in Stage Gate product and technology development teams, including documentation as required for gate meetings.
Represent the organization in outside discussions, customers, and technical forums.