Product Marketing Manager-Hydronics
About The Position
The Product Marketing Manager-Hydronics is responsible for managing the strategy, performance, and lifecycle of assigned product categories within the North American market. The role uses customer and market insights, business performance data, and cross-functional collaboration to identify growth opportunities, optimize the product portfolio, and support new product development and launches. The manager partners with Global Product Management and key business functions to align regional priorities with global product strategies while driving revenue, profitability, and long-term portfolio performance. The position is hybrid, with periodic onsite work at the headquarters in Apple Valley, Minnesota, and travel of up to 20% annually.
Requirements
- 5–10 years of progressive experience in Product Management, Product Marketing, Category Management, Engineering, or Industrial Sales.
- Experience managing technical product portfolios in a B2B manufacturing environment.
- Experience supporting product launches and product lifecycle management.
- Ability to travel up to 20% annually.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in building products, plumbing, HVAC, hydronics, mechanical systems, or industrial manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Own the regional product portfolio and manage the full product lifecycle.
- Develop regional product strategies aligned with global category objectives.
- Identify growth opportunities through customer insights, competitive intelligence, and market analysis.
- Recommend portfolio expansion, rationalization, and product enhancements.
- Develop and support business cases for new products and product enhancements.
- Provide North American market input into the global product roadmap.
- Monitor product sales, margin, profitability, pricing, warranty trends, inventory performance, and market share.
- Analyze financial and operational performance to identify opportunities and risks.
- Develop pricing recommendations and support execution of pricing strategies.
- Drive actions to improve revenue, profitability, and overall portfolio performance.
- Serve as the Voice of the Customer for assigned product categories.
- Gather customer and market insights through customer visits, field observations, distributor engagement, and other VOC activities.
- Monitor industry trends, codes and standards, competitive activity, and emerging technologies.
- Translate customer and market insights into product improvements and future innovation opportunities.
- Partner with Global Product Management to align regional priorities with long-term product strategies.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, Product Marketing, Finance, and Customer Service to advance product and business priorities.
- Support new product development through the Stage Gate process.
- Coordinate cross-functional readiness for successful product launches.
- Influence stakeholders and drive initiatives without direct authority.
- Maintain product performance dashboards and portfolio reporting.
- Support business planning, forecasting, and portfolio performance reviews.
- Develop product documentation and business recommendations to support decision-making.
- Participate in strategic planning initiatives across the product organization.
Benefits
- Best-in-class health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision.
- 160 hours of paid time off, combining PTO and Employee Safe and Sick Time accruals for Minnesota-based employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
