Product Manager - Specialty Assemblies

Eaton Corporation • Ellisville, MO

3d • $113,000 - $165,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Eaton’s ES AMER PCS division is currently seeking a Product Manager - Specialty Assemblies. This role based at our Ellisville, MO Eaton facility and offers a hybrid working schedule. Relocation assistance is available for candidates currently residing in the US.
The Product Manager leads the Eaton Bussman Series Electrical Specialty Assemblies products portfolio, driving profitable growth and managing the product lifecycle. This product portfolio includes our QSCP (Quick Ship Configured Products), and fusible configured solutions. Responsibilities include setting pricing strategy, guiding new product development, and ensuring cost and volume targets are met. The role also supports operations in executing cost reduction initiatives to boost profitability.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $113000 - $165000 a year. Please note the salary information shown is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• One (1) year of commercial product development experience, including defining go to market strategies, understanding product portfolio management and competitive landscapes.
• Four (4) years of experience in any of the following: sales, program management, manufacturing operations, product management, engineering or a similar technical customer-facing role.
• Ability to travel 25-50% as needed (mainly North America).
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, I-485 job portability, etc.
• Strong learning agiligy and being able to apply this in challenging environments
• Ability to learn market influences and develop detailed market analysis to build business cases for new product introductions
• Understand customer value creation and value pricing
• Manufacturing/operations awareness, understanding and financial impact to product line performance
• Product application knowledge, good business acumen, and the ability to develop and execute tactical and strategic plants to support the product line’s goals

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline from an accredited institution
• Previous experience in electrical/power distribution industry
• Understanding of UL and NEC codes

Responsibilities

• Sets long term strategic plan for product line and establishes product line strategic direction utilizing market research and competitive analysis information.
• Establishes annual profit plan objectives for the product line. Responsible for meeting top line and bottom-line objectives
• Possesses a general understanding of current company manufacturing technologies and relies on manufacturing engineering to stay abreast of the latest technologies.
• Has a broad understanding of markets and customers and works with the sales team to maintain this intelligence.
• Responsibile for sustaining core product lines to adapt to market change or to penetrate new markets and address competitive offerings. This includes recommending programs and promotional activities to strengthen market position for sustained product lines.
• Develops, implements, and reviews tactical sales plans to meet annual sales volume, price, market share and operating profit objectives and monitors product line financial and market performance, implementing responsive tactical changes as required.
• Maintains primary plant contact with Field Sales organization in developing sales strategies, supporting customer cultivation plans, and establishing effective communication channels between the plant and field sales organization, and develops product line value proposition tools for field sales.
• Evaluation of product line cost reduction, modification, and process improvement recommendations from the manufacturing team for market acceptability. This includes regular documented meetings with the teams that give clear direction and priority based on a commercial perspective.
• Participation as a key member of a product development team through the concept, development, implementation and market introduction for the product or product line.
• Responsibility for product literature content that includes features, benefits, and performance data. This includes printed and electronic formats. Monitor these areas as part of product life cycle management.
• Sets product pricing strategies and understand competitive market pricing for portfolio.

Benefits

• Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Eaton Benefits Overview.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager