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Job Overview:
Product Manager – Fire Protection- Remote or Onsite
Victaulic Corporate Engineering Dept. Easton, PA
**RELOCATION PACKAGE IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION**
About Us:
Victaulic is a global leader in mechanical pipe joining innovations and is the world's leading producer of mechanical pipe joining solutions. The company has 13 manufacturing facilities and 28 branches worldwide with 4,400 employees who speak 43 languages across the globe. With over 2000 global patents, Victaulic solutions are at work in more than 140 countries across diverse business lines including oil and gas, chemical, mining, power generation, water and wastewater treatment, military and marine, as well as commercial building and fire protection. Since the 1950’s Victaulic has been providing ground-breaking fire protection products and system solutions for challenges faced by engineers, contractors, property managers and fire marshals. Victaulic is a leading fire protection manufacturer of innovative fire products and firefighting systems including fire sprinklers, fire extinguishing and fire suppression systems, pipe couplings and fittings, and flow control valves. These products are used in commercial, infrastructure and industrial applications to protect people and property.
About the Position:
This person will have global responsibility in developing product and market strategies for driving growth and profitability for the future product roadmap/vision with the business unit executive commercial strategies. Expand the business with new and revitalized products and lead cross-functional teams through the Product Development Process.
Responsibilities:
- Lead product development strategies that achieve targets of sales, profit, market share, competitive positioning as expected by BOD.
- Lead the efforts to identify opportunities for value added development opportunities and serve as a champion to bring them to market. Direct and oversee initiatives and projects to revitalize existing product lines as agreed upon with the Product Development team.
- Develop future product roadmaps.
- Identify problems in the marketplace that need solved.
- Disruptive technologies.
- Understanding of constructive/FP market and what adds value.
- Make recommendations on the future of FP Market.
- Coordinate all components of product development programs in conjunction with Project Management and Technology Management
- Drive the development of an Intellectual Property Strategy for new and existing products.
- Present at Product Development Council meetings on a regular basis.
- Monitor market intelligence and competitive landscape.
- Monitor product profit margins, recommend pricing changes and investments as necessary to achieve desired margin objectives.
- Develop product training for new product introductions/launch strategy.
- Provide between marketing, engineering, operations, and sales to drive vision.
- Lead own product portfolio through the full product lifecycle.
Qualifications:
- 5-10 years of experience in the fire protection market is a plus.
- Leadership - Ability to lead through influence in a matrix environment.
- High Customer Orientation - Recognition and credibility with the customer as a trusted, collaborative and productive partner. Understands what it takes to win in the marketplace.
- New Product Development – Creative, visionary, identify and problem solve.
- Financial Aptitude - Possesses strong business acumen and proficiency.
- Exceptional planning and organizational skills. Detail oriented. Holds others accountable for commitments.
- Results and Achievement Orientation - Continually strives to meet goals. Obtains quality team output through exemplary actions and focus.
- Team Building - Ability to earn respect as a team leader, building solid horizontal and lateral relationships. Positions self as a key communications link/hub. Can excite and energize others to action.
- Strategic Influence and Communication - Develops clear and specific rationales tailored to different internal groups and external customers. Predicts others' concerns and objections and develops specific influence strategies to overcome them, strong executive communication.
- Have strong problem Solving and Analytic Thinking - Identifies current/potential barriers to meeting customer commitments and relentlessly pursues solutions.
- Uses analytic techniques to identify projects or initiatives to pursue.
- Change Facilitation and Initiative - Reacts to change as a positive challenge and translates it into opportunities. Conducts on-going critique of current practices and constantly seeks/implements new approaches to improve productivity and effectiveness.
- Global Thinker - Makes decisions sensitive to the varied markets and organizations served. Harmonizes objectives to minimize waste and redundancy.
- Strong written & oral communication skills
Victaulic Staffing Partner Communication Policy
All staffing agencies are strictly forbidden from directly contacting any Victaulic employees, except those within the Human Resources/Talent Acquisition team. All communications, inquiries and candidate submissions must be routed through Victaulic's Human Resources/Talent Acquisition team. Non-compliance with this policy may result in the suspension of partnership, cancellation of the current contract, and/or the imposition of a mandatory probation period before any future business can resume. Additionally, non-compliance may lead to a permanent ban on future business. This policy ensures a streamlined and compliant recruitment process
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