Senior Product Manager - Engines

Generac Power Systems•Waukesha, WI

About The Position

We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world. Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries. The Senior Product Manager – Engines leads the end-to-end product lifecycle, ensuring successful launches and strategic growth of the engine product category. This role drives an innovative three-year product roadmap through market analysis, category research, and cross-functional collaboration. The incumbent synthesizes data into actionable insights that validate product development direction, prioritizes initiatives based on business capabilities, and monitors product quality metrics to address issues and support resolution.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience in Business, Engineering, or related field.
Work Experience: 3+ years in product management, engineering, or technical sales; exposure to diesel or gaseous reciprocating engine technology.
Practical exposure to diesel or gaseous reciprocating engine technology, including suppliers and applications.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities: Demonstrated capability to gather and utilize market analysis to understand the competitive landscape and drive product development decisions.
Proven ability to articulate a business case to stakeholders and customers, including relevant product and market information tailored to the audience.
Demonstrated technical skills for understanding and driving new product development in a manufacturing and engineering environment;
Proven ability to conceive, develop and launch new products using a cross-disciplinary approach;
Prior work in a commercial and industrial business-to-business focused company
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite;
Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
Strong presentation skills;
Effective organizational and prioritization skills;
Ability to act proactively and identify innovative solutions;
Ability to read, understand, articulate to multiple audiences, and action upon technical information
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage ambiguity with a penchant for action.

Nice To Haves

Education: MBA or Master’s Degree in a related field
Work Experience: Background in power generation and engine-driven equipment.
Hands-on experience with compression or spark-ignited engine technologies, ideally in power generation applications.
Skilled in data-driven decision-making and analytics.
Knowledge of customer-focused product development practices.

Responsibilities

Develops product category strategy to drive revenue and profitability for assigned product lines, including specific, measurable goals such as percentage of market share, net sales, product revenue and margin growth.
Prioritizes creation of strategies against business needs and market demand.
Gathers and maintains category foundational research. This includes industry- and end customer-focused research
Synthesizes data into facts and trends that validate company direction on product development.
Serves as knowledge expert in product category relative product capability, technical specifications and features, as well as market drivers and the competitive landscape.
Drives innovation-based three-year product roadmap to deliver concept ideation such as Unique Selling Propositions, roadmap of new projects, improvements to existing products and product lines, new product launch timing, phasing out old product timing, channel/customer driven NPI (New Product Introduction) projects, and cost reduction projects.
Build and deliver timely reports and presentation to internal stakeholders and external customers, including relevant metrics and information related to the product line or category.
Utilize formal and informal communication to drive product strategy across the organization, gaining buy-in from broad stakeholder base in a matrix environment.
Collaborate across functions and lead indirect teams to move projects through the stage gate development process.
Drive activities and execute strategies to support the sales team and process at key launch events or product milestones.
Work collaboratively with the Engineering team to understand critical intellectual property, regulatory standards, legislation in order to update product category strategy as needed.
Build and articulate a business case relative to product category management
Understand, identify and analyze industry trends, market analysis and competition
Demonstrate Mechanical aptitude
Demonstrate communication skills relative to product strategy