Head of Product Innovation

Shift: 1st shift

City: Solon

Swagelok, Northeast Ohio, USA

Swagelok is a global organization and one of the largest employers of manufacturing talent in Northeast Ohio. We are driven by our core values of Quality, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Customer Focus, Innovation, and Continuous Improvement, which are demonstrated through our daily actions. For over 75 years, our dedication to our core values has been the foundation for our success. Our products have been up into space, down to the bottom of the ocean, and everywhere in between. That same dedication spans to our customers.

Throughout our organization we demonstrate a commitment to these values and those we bring onboard. Whether you want to grow in your role or explore broad opportunities and develop new skills—you’ll thrive in a culture that promotes learning and development.

We strive to be a company where we all can do our best work with a true sense of purpose and belonging.

Be Connected. Be Valued. Be You.

We hope you’ll consider joining our team.

Position Summary:
The Product Manager develops and executes strategic plans for assigned product lines ranging from $1M to $500M of net sales. This role collaborates across the organization to actively manage Swagelok’s product portfolio, performance, price and promotional activities. This role monitors technology trends and supports product road mapping to create and maintain a leading market position*.* Product managers are viewed as key influencers within the organization with strong business acumen and communication skills.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Develops product vision statements that incorporate customer, market, and competitive perspectives, and business strategy for assigned product lines.

Leads development of product segmentation and product family roadmaps

Leads cross functional development of product strategy to achieve overall growth and profitability objectives for assigned product lines

Establishes and aligns growth, profitability, and other KPI’s for assigned product lines and leads development of annual plans to achieve goals for assigned product lines

Leads cross functional management team to identify, prioritize, and/or accelerate large sales or profitability improvement opportunities

Uses analytics and market intelligence to inform key decisions including, new product assessment, SKU rationalization, price adjustments, availability changes, and other actions

Establishes product line pricing strategy, develops pricing models that reflect market value, and directs price change process

Manages and executes product and marketing assessments

Manages the collection of competitive product line and technology trend intelligence within target market segments and applications.

Manages and executes processes to capture and report on customer, channel, and business insights

Leads customer insight team for new product development efforts and oversees voice of customer, blueprinting process

Develop and execute training for sales and service center associates on product and service capabilities

Product line subject matter expert for sales support and communications activities

Approximate # of direct reports: *N/A *

*Travel Expectation: * *10-20% International *

Budget responsibility: N/A

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
Education: BS/BA in Business, Marketing, or Technical Field. MBA recommended.

Experience:

A minimum of five (5) years’ experience with increasing responsibility in B2B marketing and product management or technical related area

Familiarity with industrial product markets and distribution sales model is preferred

Skills:

Ability to synthesize information from a variety of sources to develop cohesive strategies and exercise sound business judgement

Excellent communications skills; can articulate strategies in a compelling manner

Ability to lead effectively within a matrix organization by building rapport, trust, and influence of a wide variety of audiences, including distributors, customers, internal departments, and senior management

Critical Competencies:

Must have strong influence and decision-making skills/abilities; analytical skills, detail orientation, curiosity / continuous learning aptitude, growth mindset, vision, service orientation, organizational awareness.

Working Conditions and/or Physical Requirements

Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.

Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.

Swagelok provides a comprehensive package of valuable benefits called Total Rewards focused on health and wellness, compensation, retirement planning, and supplemental rewards.

Congratulations on taking the first step to B e Connected. B e Valued. B e You.

• Swagelok is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are selected without regard to race, ethnicity, creed, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, pregnancy-related medical conditions, age, national origin or ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran/military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.*
• Swagelok will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, and Ohio state law.*
• This job summary is intended to be brief and does not list all the duties for this position. Nothing in this job description should be construed as an express or implied contract of employment. Swagelok is an at-will employer, which means that either party is free to terminate the employment relationship at any time, without any advanced notice, for any reason or no reason.*

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