Global Product Manager

Seeking to hire a Product Manager for a direct hire opportunity in Lisle, IL to collaborate with Engineering, Business Development, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Distribution Partners to bring products to market.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Increase revenue, profitability, and market share of assigned products
• Identify new differentiated products that are broadly applicable to current and potential customers
• Concept test these new ideas with Sales, Target Customers, and Distributors
• Perform a financial analysis to ensure that each proposed development will meet profitability requirements
• Create Voice of the Customer product requirements that specify the needed features to be developed by Engineering
• Work with Legal and Engineering Teams to submit utility and design patent applications
• Review Engineering design proposals to ensure that they meet the requested product requirements
• Create promotional material and sample kits for product launches
• Train Sales, Customers, and Distributors on new product capabilities
• Manage product family roadmap
• Work with plants on capacity planning and cost-reduction activities
• Review and approve pricing requests

Other Details:

• Schedule: 8 am-5 pm; Hybrid Remote
• Location: Lisle, 15% domestic travel and some international 

• 2+ years of experience in product management and/or sales, in high-power interconnect solutions (connectors, busbars, and cable assemblies), or specifically in the electronics industry, is REQUIRED.
• Engineering Degree
• Track record of growing revenue and profitability
• Ability to guide customers to the appropriate product solutions
• Understanding of business metrics and data used to gauge product success
• Organizational skills to anticipate, plan, prioritize, and self-monitor workload
• Interpersonal skills to effectively work with co-workers and external contacts to effectively build relationships, respond positively to situations, and influence others positively to situations, and influence others
• Skills in presenting to large groups
• Willingness to travel to customers and distributors as needed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical Degree
• Experience and knowledge in the Datacenter, Electrification, or Industrial markets

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, and educational assistance.