Product Manager

Alkegen•Buffalo, NY

About The Position

Alkegen is seeking a Product Manager to lead product and portfolio strategy in an industrial, manufacturing, or technical environment. The role owns product vision, roadmaps, investment priorities, portfolio optimization, and strategic planning in alignment with the company’s growth strategy. It translates customer and market insights into differentiated product strategies and value propositions, while coordinating global go-to-market execution and competitive intelligence. The Product Manager leads products through their full lifecycle, from concept and launch through end of life. This includes guiding feature priorities and investment trade-offs, coordinating engineering, operations, sales, and supply chain, supporting commercialization and product certifications, and enabling Sales with product knowledge and value propositions. The role also sets pricing governance, protects margins, and leads cost-down, standardization, SKU rationalization, and phase-out initiatives. It establishes execution tools, processes, and metrics and works across global teams and time zones. Monthly travel to customers, suppliers, or manufacturing sites is required.

Requirements

3–5+ years of product management experience within an industrial, manufacturing, or technical environment.
Demonstrated success operating in a complex matrix environment and driving cross-functional alignment and measurable revenue or margin impact.
Ability to translate complex market insights and customer needs into actionable, profitable product strategies.
Strong commercialization experience and a deep understanding of B2B pricing strategies and sales enablement.
Bachelor’s degree required.
Ability to travel monthly to customers, suppliers, or manufacturing sites.
Ability to work across time zones with global teams.

Nice To Haves

Advanced business degree (MBA) or technical degree is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Define and own product vision, roadmap, and investment priorities aligned with corporate growth strategy.
Lead portfolio optimization decisions, including investment, growth, or exit decisions based on market conditions.
Lead annual product strategic planning and deployment of the segment strategy.
Track resource allocation and product return on investment.
Represent the voice of the customer and understand customer needs and buying drivers by industry vertical.
Translate market insights into value propositions and product strategy.
Ensure products deliver differentiated, quantifiable customer value that supports premium positioning and pricing.
Coordinate industry strategies across Product Management to support cohesive go-to-market execution.
Consolidate and distribute competitive intelligence insights.
Own the product lifecycle from concept through launch and end of life.
Prioritize product features and investment cost-to-value trade-offs in product design.
Coordinate engineering, operations, sales, and supply chain to support on-time delivery, cost discipline, and quality.
Partner with Sales to transition product development specifications into successful commercialization.
Partner with Engineering to ensure products are certified with appropriate boards across relevant geographies.
Educate Sales on products, applications, and value propositions to accelerate selling and cross-selling.
Ensure Product Managers engage technical procurement to secure product specifications across subsidiaries.
Set pricing strategy and governance to protect margins and manage price changes.
Identify and lead product-driven cost-down and standardization initiatives.
Track line extensions, SKU rationalization, and product phase-out decisions.
Establish tools, processes, and metrics to drive execution and product performance.
Foster a data-driven, customer-centric product environment.
Track execution of product decisions, surface risks, and escalate issues to meet commitments.
Travel monthly to customers, suppliers, or manufacturing sites and work across time zones with global teams.