Senior Product Manager - Stationary Gas Industrial Generators

Generac Power Systems • Waukesha, WI

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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 - Stationary GAS Industrial Generators develops and drives product strategy cross functionally with P&L responsibility for Generac's industrial GAS powered generator sets. This role is responsible for product lifecycle management, and ensures the successful launch of new products, prioritizing strategies based on market analysis and business capabilities. The Senior Product Manager gathers and maintains category research and synthesizes data into facts and trends that validate company direction on product development, driving an innovative three-year product roadmap in collaboration with other business leaders. The incumbent understands product quality metrics and communicates issues to the appropriate groups, contributing to problem solving and resolution. This role is located in the Waukesha, WI location.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or related field.
• 3 years of progressive work experience in product management, engineering, technical sales, or related role.
• 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

• MBA or Master's Degree in a related field preferred.
• Past experience within Power Generation Industry.

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, including 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.
• Builds and delivers timely reports and presentations to internal stakeholders and external customers, including relevant metrics and information related to the product line or category.
• Utilizes formal and informal communication to drive product strategy across the organization, gaining buy-in from broad stakeholder base in a matrix environment.
• Collaborates across functions and lead indirect teams to move projects through the stage gate development process.
• Drives activities and execute strategies to support the sales team and process at key launch events or product milestones.
• Works collaboratively with the Engineering team to understand critical intellectual property, regulatory standards, legislation in order to update product category strategy as needed.
• Builds and articulates business cases relative to product category management.
• Understands, identifies and analyzes industry trends, market analysis and competition.
• Demonstrates Mechanical aptitude.
• Demonstrates communication skills relative to product strategy.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Machinery Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree