Gardner Denver is a leading provider of mission‑critical flow control and compression equipment and associated aftermarket parts, consumables, and services, which it sells across multiple attractive end‑markets within the industrial, energy and medical industries. Its broad and complete range of compressor, vacuum and blower products and services, along with its application expertise and over 160 years of engineering heritage, allows Gardner Denver to provide differentiated product and service offerings for its customers' specific uses.
Job Summary
The Product Manager works under moderate supervision, ensuring that product and marketing efforts support the company’s overall strategy and goals.
You will work with oversight and support to develop a product roadmap for your area that maintains and adds value to the customer. You will also lead the execution of detailed planning for all product/service lines based on input from industry, market and competitor analyses. You will support routine activities pertaining to Product Growth Teams including coordinating meetings, measuring metrics, conducting analytics and utilizing an effective visual management system.
This role will interact with engineering to ensure product design, quality, reliability and profitability goals are met. It will be necessary to communicate product roadmap and plan with Business Unit product planning team and coordinate the plan with functional partners. Interaction with the sales team is a must to review and adjust the distribution strategy for each product/service line based on performance.
You will coordinate with the marketing and sales teams to develop and implement a marketing strategy and plan (including targeted programs and promotions) for each new or updated product/service or extension. This role operates within multiple geographies and manufacturing locations. The breadth of offerings is narrow and standard. It has dual channel routes to market and is tasked with maintaining the product.
Responsibilities
- Managing products through the product lifecycle
- Gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements
- Defining the product vision
- Partner with engineering, marketing and sales teams
- Lead and execute detailed demand planning
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, engineering, finance or other related degree
Travel & Work Arrangements/Requirements
Hybrid, Ability to travel up to 25%
- Ideally experienced in Product Management and have an in-depth understanding of product life cycle and product commercialization process
- Experience in customer-facing roles is preferred or alternatively application engineering, engineering design, with technical competency
- Database and analytic skills including highly developed proficiency in MS Office Suite including Excel
- Be able to perform effectively as a team member and be able to work independently in the pursuit of team objectives
- Passion and desire to be best in class
What We Offer
- 10% of salary in shares after 1 year of employment
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