Technical Product Manager

Job Title

Horton Pedestrian Access Solutions, a division of Overhead Door Corporation, with multiple service locations, and more than 200 value-adding distribution partners across North America, Horton Pedestrian Access Solutions addresses a broad range of specialty door and access applications under the brands Horton Automatics, Won-Door, and Door Services Corporation. Horton's breadth of solutions enables architects to achieve their unique design vision, combining exceptional functionality and code compliance with elegant and flexible designs. Horton Automatics brand provides the broadest portfolio of automatic doors in the industry, which specialty applications for healthcare, security, and office buildings.

Position Overview

This position translates ideas and market research into strategy to manage the product and portfolio life cycles. Additionally, ensures that a product's services and features meet the market's needs and the product's initial design intent. Develop strategies to maintain or increase a product's profit margin throughout the product life cycle. Stays abreast of competitor activities as well as industry trends and regulatory compliance issues.

• Established overall strategy for delivering sales tools and collateral to the field for sales engagements. Gathered product evidence in the form of benchmarks, demos, case studies, and testimonials.
• Boost internal and external product awareness through websites, events, advertising, and PR.
• Responsible for determining pricing, channel placement, launch, sustained promotion, and ongoing changes to products through the product life cycle.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement product strategies consistent with the company's vision
• Work with the Director of Marketing to create product plans and roadmaps
• Gather the Voice of the Customer input and develop Customer Fitness for Use Criteria
• Develop product requirements and multi-year roadmaps
• Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders, and other teams to shape requirements, features, and end products
• Leading and coordinating with engineering, marketing, and other teams
• Identify channels of distribution and brand opportunities for product development, placement, and profitable growth
• Determine specifications, production timetables, pricing, and time-integrated plans for product introduction, through launch and commercialization
• Produce and review product requirements documents, including screener (PRD)
• Ensure products and releases are launched correctly and on schedule
• Make creative recommendations to expand the product base and vision
• Suggest ways to track product use and impact on end users
• Recommend product extensions to eliminate market barriers and extend sales

Qualifications

Qualifications

• 3+ years of product marketing experience; should include knowledge of manufacturing environment and sales organizations/ channels, preferably in consumer durable or packaged goods
• 3+ additional years in a mechanical, electrical or embedded software engineering role.
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical or software engineering. MBA a plus
• Still retain the ability to design mechanical, electrical or software systems

Skills

• Business development and product marketing background, with experience developing product plans and strategy work
• Knowledge of processes related to brand marketing, market research, sales training, and field communications
• Computer literate in MS Office products
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills – for both internal groups as well as clients and trade groups/ seminars
• Good problem-solving skills, Six Sigma training a plus
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Action and results oriented
• Persuasive and capable of leading teams with vision and courage of convictions
• Experience in product lifecycle management
• Organizational and leadership abilities and the ability to prioritize multiple projects.
• Excellent communication skills
• Creative thinking skills
• Team spirit and team players, who understand that flying solo is a limiting and isolating choice.
• Process driven and process building
• Problem solving, high curiosity and persistence
• Demonstrated advanced capabilities Microsoft Office, especially in Excel

Work Environment

This role operates primarily in an office environment.

Travel

• Travel on occasions determined by project activity and field product support.
• This travel would include international travel to Horton mfg. plant in MX.
• Travel 10%-20%

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.