Product Manager
About The Position
The Product Manager leads an Integrated Product Team and owns the product family across its full lifecycle, from development and production through sustainment, field performance, and end-of-life management. The role ensures readiness for future production capacity and lifecycle cost targets; owns pricing strategy and profitability; oversees continuous-improvement funding and costs; approves Estimate at Completion in accordance with financial delegation of authority; and manages shared investments across the product portfolio. The Product Manager is the primary accountable customer interface for the product family and is accountable for end-to-end portfolio performance. The role allocates production output among competing customer orders, communicates delivery commitments, sets original equipment pricing parameters and negotiation boundaries using Customer Excellence & Strategy guidance, makes cross-product margin trade-off decisions, and owns development and execution of the product and technology roadmap. This is a hybrid position based in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Requirements
- Typically requires a university degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and a minimum of 7 years of experience.
- Program or product management experience.
- U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program or contract.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with program management systems, including manpower planning, program scheduling, cost controls, and earned value management.
- Experience in operations and production flow management, including supply chain oversight.
- Knowledge of aerospace manufacturing techniques and technical requirements.
- Knowledge of aerospace contracts.
- Experience with proposal preparation and customer negotiations preparation.
- Knowledge of aerospace policies, procedures, and system requirements, including quality, manufacturing, and program management.
- Applied theory-level knowledge of the management system.
- Experience with Pelico, Teamcenter, or SAP.
Responsibilities
- Lead an Integrated Product Team across the full product lifecycle, including development, production, sustainment, field performance, and end-of-life management.
- Ensure readiness for future production capacity and lifecycle cost targets.
- Own pricing strategy and profitability outcomes for the product line.
- Oversee and prioritize funding for continuous-improvement initiatives, including yield, reliability, and cost improvements.
- Be accountable for the Estimate at Completion and approve it in accordance with financial delegation of authority.
- Manage shared investments across the product portfolio.
- Oversee costs for continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Serve as the primary accountable customer interface for the product family.
- Determine production output allocation across competing customer orders.
- Be accountable for end-to-end product portfolio performance.
- Set original equipment pricing parameters and negotiation boundaries, incorporating price-to-win guidance from the Customer Excellence & Strategy function.
- Communicate delivery commitments to customers.
- Own cross-product margin trade-off decisions.
- Own development and execution of the product and technology roadmap.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
- 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and a separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
- Tuition reimbursement program.
- Student Loan Repayment Program.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
- Optional pet, home, auto, additional life and accident, critical illness, group legal, and identity theft protection coverages.
- Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits.
- Carrot Health services for hormonal health, fertility, and family building.
- Adoption assistance.
- Autism Benefit.
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
- Healthy You Incentives wellness rewards program.
- Doctor on Demand virtual doctor visits.
- Bright Horizons child and elder care services.
- Teladoc Medical Experts second opinion program.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Potential annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation, depending on position level and collective-bargaining coverage; payments are not guaranteed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
