Product Management Excellence Leader

Ingersoll Rand•Davidson, NC

2d•Remote

About The Position

Ingersoll Rand, a company with ~$8B in annual revenue and 22,000 employees world-wide, is seeking a Product Management Excellence Leader for its Precision Technologies (PT) business unit that will be focused on designing the Product Management / NPD operating model, coaching talent & building capability, and scaling product management excellence across an entire organization.

Requirements

8+ years of Product Management experience, with at least 3 years leading teams and building PM capability through structured mentorship
Deep understanding of Agile/Scrum frameworks, product discovery techniques, and metrics-driven execution
Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and develop effective solutions with a keen continuous improvement mind-set
Exceptional stakeholder management and executive presence to champion organizational change
Strong project / program management skills, including planning, execution, and monitoring
Bachelor's degree from an accredited university

Nice To Haves

Created and launched original, company-wide internal training academies or product management bootcamps.
Managed transitions from legacy project-based delivery models to modern, outcomes-driven product operating models.

Responsibilities

Own standard work for VOC process and host trainings, drive team adherence and create centralized customer insight database
Own and maintain AIM (applications, industries, markets) framework for PT overall to establish master list of target applications and total addressable market for each. Conduct periodic review to determine PT market share and identify gaps in regions/countries/markets
From won/lost funnel analysis, document scalable wins as references for sales and marketing and document product gaps as inputs to respective sub business unit product managers
Own Ingersoll Ran Product Excellence (IRPX) gate process and strengthen business case approval process for NPD
Own Stage-Gate process and deployment to drive excellence for PM and Engineering organizations, hold teams accountable to targeted toll gate dates, while establishing countermeasures to recover Engineering delays
Strengthen gate review process for phase gate 1, phase gate 2, create and enforce standard work for business case review at both gates, bring a neutral perspective and reduce low impact product development
Strengthen gate review process for phase gate 3, with standard work to translate validated business case for production inventory requirements
Drive coordination of Engineering priorities in regions, across global business units, and with IRETC
Create structure to evaluate projects and deliverables that will be executed by the IRETC
Be the liaison with team of ~50 Engineering resources located in India, while keeping teams accountable to mutually agreed upon deliverables and timelines
At TG1, identify intellectual property opportunities, technology blocks, to feed patent strategy
Create and deploy product rationalization framework to drive simplified product portfolio with more meaning to customers
Establish criteria for cyber security review process within IRPX gate process
For products launched, create framework together with corporate IT security resources to flag, prioritize and mitigate security risks
Create project plans for security mitigation and ensure on time deliverables of product security related projects