Product Manager - Fire Protection
Location
Easton, PA
Level
Manager
Department
Fire and Safety
Type
Full - Time
Salary
$150,000
Job Description
Posted on:
April 9, 2025
Product Manager – Fire Protection
Victaulic Corporate Engineering Dept. Easton, PA
**RELOCATION PACKAGE IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION**
This person will have global responsibility in developing product and market strategies for driving growth and profitability for the future product roadmap/vision with the business unit executive commercial strategies. Expand the business with new and revitalized products and lead cross-functional teams through the Product Development Process.
Responsibilities
- Lead product development strategies that achieve targets of sales, profit, market share, competitive positioning as expected by BOD.
- Lead the efforts to identify opportunities for value added development opportunities and serve as a champion to bring them to market. Direct and oversee initiatives and projects to revitalize existing product lines as agreed upon with the Product Development team.
- Develop future product roadmaps.
- Identify problems in the marketplace that need solved.
- Disruptive technologies.
- Understanding of constructive/FP market and what adds value.
- Make recommendations on the future of FP Market.
- Coordinate all components of product development programs in conjunction with Project Management and Technology Management
- Drive the development of an Intellectual Property Strategy for new and existing products.
- Present at Product Development Council meetings on a regular basis.
- Monitor market intelligence and competitive landscape.
- Monitor product profit margins, recommend pricing changes and investments as necessary to achieve desired margin objectives.
- Develop product training for new product introductions/launch strategy.
- Provide between marketing, engineering, operations, and sales to drive vision.
- Lead own product portfolio through the full product lifecycle.
Job Requirements
- 5-10 years of experience in the fire protection market is a plus.
- Leadership - Ability to lead through influence in a matrix environment.
- High Customer Orientation - Recognition and credibility with the customer as a trusted, collaborative and productive partner. Understands what it takes to win in the marketplace.
- New Product Development – Creative, visionary, identify and problem solve.
- Financial Aptitude - Possesses strong business acumen and proficiency.
- Exceptional planning and organizational skills. Detail oriented. Holds others accountable for commitments.
- Results and Achievement Orientation - Continually strives to meet goals. Obtains quality team output through exemplary actions and focus.
- Team Building - Ability to earn respect as a team leader, building solid horizontal and lateral relationships. Positions self as a key communications link/hub. Can excite and energize others to action.
- Strategic Influence and Communication - Develops clear and specific rationales tailored to different internal groups and external customers. Predicts others' concerns and objections and develops specific influence strategies to overcome them, strong executive communication.
- Have strong problem Solving and Analytic Thinking - Identifies current/potential barriers to meeting customer commitments and relentlessly pursues solutions.
- Uses analytic techniques to identify projects or initiatives to pursue.
- Change Facilitation and Initiative - Reacts to change as a positive challenge and translates it into opportunities. Conducts on-going critique of current practices and constantly seeks/implements new approaches to improve productivity and effectiveness.
- Global Thinker - Makes decisions sensitive to the varied markets and organizations served. Harmonizes objectives to minimize waste and redundancy.
- Strong written & oral communication skills
