Senior Manager, Product Management

Uponor-posted 18 days ago

Full-time • Senior

Apple Valley, MN

1,001-5,000 employees

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The Senior Manager of Product Management is a strategic leader responsible for driving innovation, growth, and profitability across the company’s product portfolio. This individual leads a small, high-performing team charged with defining and executing a forward-looking product strategy that strengthens the company’s competitive position in the North America plumbing and HVAC market. The Senior Manager will translate market, customer, and business insights into actionable product roadmaps that deliver sustainable growth, while collaborating cross-functionally to ensure successful development and commercialization. This role combines strategic leadership, financial accountability, and hands-on execution to ensure that the company’s products continue to meet evolving customer needs and industry standards while achieving strong financial performance.

Shape and Represent Regional Product Strategy: Serve as the voice of the region in global category strategy development—ensuring that regional priorities, customer needs, and market dynamics meaningfully influence global direction.
Define and Deliver the 5-Year Regional Roadmap: Develop a robust, insight-driven roadmap that both aligns with global category strategies and reflects the unique opportunities and challenges of the region.
Lead Innovation and Lifecycle Strategies: Champion innovation and portfolio evolution to deliver sustained growth, margin improvement, and competitive advantage within the region.
Partner Cross-Functionally for Differentiated Solutions: Collaborate closely with R&D, Operations, Sales, and Marketing to translate market insights into high-value, customer-relevant products.
Own Portfolio Financial Performance: Manage the regional product portfolio P&L, driving profitability, ROI, and disciplined lifecycle management in alignment with both regional goals and global benchmarks.
Align and Influence Across Functions and Geographies: Ensure strong alignment across functions, while advocating for regional needs and investments within the global framework.
Champion Regional Customer and Market Insight: Deeply understand customer needs, competitive dynamics, and emerging trends to inform strategy and drive regional relevance.
Collaborate for Market Success: Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to ensure product readiness, successful launches, and adoption across channels.
Identify Growth Opportunities: Prioritize high-impact opportunities across existing and emerging markets, including value-driven and fast-growing segments within the region.
Manage the Full Product Lifecycle: Oversee the product journey from concept to commercialization and end-of-life, ensuring customer satisfaction and business impact throughout.
Align Product Strategy with Business Goals: Collaborate with regional and global leadership to ensure product strategies drive the broader commercial and operational objectives.
Drive Data-Based Decision-Making: Utilize market analytics, performance KPIs, and financial insights to inform strategic choices and optimize the portfolio.
Champion Operational Excellence: Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance speed, efficiency, and execution quality across the product management function.
Manage Budgets and Resources: Ensure resource allocation and functional investments align with strategic priorities and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Lead and Inspire the Product Team: Build and mentor a high-performing team, fostering accountability, innovation, and strategic thinking.
Develop Talent and Capability: Invest in professional growth, succession planning, and cross-functional collaboration to strengthen organizational capability.
Promote Strategic Problem-Solving: Encourage forward-looking thinking and agile execution to address regional challenges and capture new opportunities.

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field; MBA preferred.
8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or people management role.
Demonstrated success in developing and executing multi-year product strategies that drive measurable business growth.
Strong business acumen with experience managing P&L performance, including pricing, margin management, and lifecycle optimization.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a manufacturing or industrial environment, preferably within plumbing, building products, or HVAC.
Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills at all organizational levels.

Best-in-class health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
160 hours paid time off (combination of PTO and Employee Safe and Sick Time accruals- MN Based Employees)

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