Product Manager

Product Management Professional

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Location: Local/Lynchburg, VA

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

We're looking for a dynamic Product Management Professional to help drive the Devices Product Line through smart strategy, market insights, and successful product launches. This role works across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and commercial teams to bring innovative portable and mobile solutions to market while developing impactful sales tools and leading competitive analysis. Ideal candidates thrive in fast?paced environments, take ownership of projects end?to?end, and are eager to make a meaningful impact.

Essential Functions:

• The Product Management Professional will provide a broad knowledge of product management support for the Devices Product Line Management team.
• In this role, the Professional will provide and deliver product reporting, participate in product line forecasting, conduct ongoing competitive and market analysis, and is closely involved with the vital initiatives to meet the product line revenue targets.
• At the highest level this individual will:
• Support robust and effective commercialization plans and the implementation of product activities for all new Portable and Mobile product launches to ensure attainment of financial objectives within launch timelines.
• Work across Product Line Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Configuration Management in preparation for introductions and productization in catalog.
• Communicate within and outside of own function or business area and has responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.) when necessary.
• Develop sales tools and collateral to equip field sales, inside sales and channel partners for success. Implement value-added selling promotions, training collateral, presentations, webinars, and other commercialization activities. Ensure all marketing and sales collateral reflects current product line with accurate data.
• Demonstrate strong initiative and ownership, proactively driving product activities and taking general oversight of key workstreams with minimal direction.
• Act as a self?starter who anticipates needs, identifies gaps, and independently moves projects forward.
• Bring creative, outside?the?box thinking to solve complex problems, challenge assumptions, and identify innovative opportunities that strengthen the product line.
• Apply inventive approaches to product strategy, market analysis, and commercialization to improve outcomes and uncover new value.
• Conduct ongoing competitive and market analysis. Lead competitive benchmarking sessions, prepare competitive product feature comparison spreadsheets, prepare competitive pricing analysis and conduct ongoing market insight. Synthesize insight for input into product road maps, market positioning and strategic planning.
• Drive a culture of innovation by proactively identifying new solutions, tools, and approaches that enhance product performance, competitiveness, and internal processes.
• Prepare ad hoc reporting for product shipments, operational features, and historical sales trends.
• Provide training to sales, customer service and application engineers to enable stakeholders to successfully apply content and learnings into their respective disciplines.
• Participate in financial calls and inventory initiatives as requested. Help manage the reporting of product-line revenue and bookings to ensure accurate forecasting of product portfolio.
• Stay on top of industry trends and best practices across all areas of responsibility.
• Travel required (10%-25%).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other related technology or business-oriented field.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 5 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Strong problem-solving, resource management, and time-management skills
• Broad knowledge of project management
• Ability to work independently on multiple projects at once with cross-functional teams
• Experience with LMR or LTE technology to support internal and external customers
• IP networking
• Sense of urgency to execute and success-oriented entrepreneurial attitude