Komatsu

Product Manager- Fleet Management Systems

Komatsu • $110K — $130K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Mining, Technology, or related field; MBA preferred.
  • 7+ years in product management, commercial leadership, or related fields.
  • Proven track record in revenue growth and market share expansion.
  • Strong commercial acumen in pricing, financial analysis, and portfolio economics.
  • Deep understanding of mining operations and Fleet Management Systems.
  • Experience in defining product vision and measurable business outcomes.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder-influence skills.

Responsibilities

  • Own the commercial direction and performance of the product portfolio.
  • Define a multi-year strategy aligned with customer outcomes and market opportunities.
  • Drive market share growth and installed-base expansion in priority markets.
  • Manage portfolio economics, including revenue growth and pricing strategies.
  • Build relationships with strategic customers and industry stakeholders.
  • Translate customer insights into actionable portfolio decisions.
  • Lead cross-functional teams to align on product outcomes.

Benefits

  • Onsite position in Tucson, Arizona.
  • Opportunity to lead a strategic product portfolio.
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams and industry leaders.
  • Potential for domestic and international travel up to 40%.
  • Access to professional development and training opportunities.
Full Job Description
Product Manager- Fleet Management Systems

Posting Start Date: 9/30/26

Job Location (Short): Tucson, Arizona, USA, 85706

Requisition ID: 36724

Onsite or Remote: Onsite Position

Job Overview

The Product Manager, Fleet Management Systems is the commercial and strategic leader for the Fleet Management Systems portfolio. This role owns the portfolio's market direction, commercial performance, market share growth, installed-base expansion, positioning, pricing, lifecycle strategy, and investment priorities.

Serving as the face of the product internally and externally, the Product Manager builds a deep understanding of customer needs, regional priorities, market dynamics, competitive alternatives, and customer economics. The role converts those insights into a compelling product strategy, differentiated market position, executable roadmap, and measurable growth plan.

The Product Manager works through a focused product leadership team. The Senior Technical Product Specialist owns product capability, requirements, delivery governance, product operations, and portfolio reporting. The Product Specialist, Customer Value & Performance owns adoption, product performance, Value in Use, customer outcomes, and economic value evidence. The Product Marketing & Market Intelligence Manager owns market analysis, positioning, messaging, launches, and sales enablement. This operating model enables the Product Manager to remain focused on strategy, commercial leadership, and portfolio growth.

Key Job Responsibilities

Commercial Product Leadership: Own the portfolio's commercial direction and performance, setting growth priorities, targets, and corrective actions based on market, customer, pipeline, and financial data.
Product Vision and Strategy: Define a multi-year strategy aligned with customer outcomes, company objectives, market opportunities, portfolio economics, and competitive advantage.
Market Share Growth: Increase market penetration, win rates, installed base, retention, adoption, and expansion in priority markets.
Portfolio Economics: Own revenue growth, pricing, packaging, licensing, margins, investment returns, and business case realization with Finance and commercial leaders.
Installed-Base Growth: Drive active-site growth, feature adoption, expansion, retention, upgrades, and portfolio utilization.
Market and Competitive Leadership: Assess market size, segments, competitors, trends, buying criteria, and emerging opportunities to guide strategy and investment.
Customer and Regional Leadership: Serve as the product's market-facing leader and build relationships with strategic customers, regional and sales leaders, distributors, and industry stakeholders.
Voice of Customer and Region: Translate customer needs, regional priorities, win-loss insights, and adoption data into portfolio decisions.
Portfolio Roadmap and Investment Priorities: Own the roadmap and final prioritization decisions, balancing customer value, revenue, differentiation, feasibility, risk, lifecycle health, and capacity.
Business Cases and Investment Decisions: Develop investment proposals with clear outcomes, economics, requirements, risks, success measures, and returns. Lead build, buy, partner, or retire recommendations.
Pricing and Commercialization: Establish value-based pricing, packaging, licensing, and commercial models that support growth and sustainable portfolio economics.
Go-to-Market Leadership: Set launch objectives and strategy with Product Marketing, Sales, regions, Customer Success, and delivery teams, aligning positioning, readiness, enablement, and success measures.
Product Lifecycle Management: Lead the portfolio from concept through launch, growth, modernization, migration, and end-of-life while protecting customer value and commercial performance.
Portfolio Performance Management: Track KPIs for revenue, margin, market share, pipeline, win rate, installed base, adoption, customer outcomes, product performance, launches, and business cases.
Product Leadership Team Alignment: Set priorities and decision rights for the product leadership team, resolve tradeoffs, and maintain one integrated portfolio plan.
Executive Communication: Present concise strategies, performance updates, investment recommendations, market insights, risks, and corrective actions to senior leaders.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Align Engineering, UX, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Support, Customer Success, regions, and partners around portfolio outcomes.
Industry Leadership: Represent the portfolio with customers, executives, industry groups, and partners to strengthen Komatsu's credibility and market leadership.

Required Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Mining, Technology, or a related field; MBA or equivalent commercial leadership experience is preferred.
  • At least 7 years of experience in product management, portfolio management, commercial leadership, strategy, mining technology, enterprise software, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated success growing revenue, product adoption, installed-base penetration, market share, or commercial performance.
  • Strong commercial acumen, including pricing, packaging, financial analysis, margin, business cases, investment return, market development, and portfolio economics.
  • Strong understanding of mining operations, Fleet Management Systems, customer workflows, operational value drivers, and the industrial technology sales cycle.
  • Experience defining product vision, portfolio strategy, roadmaps, lifecycle plans, commercialization strategies, and measurable business outcomes.
  • Ability to synthesize market intelligence, customer evidence, competitive information, pipeline data, product performance, and financial results into clear decisions.
  • Exceptional executive communication, storytelling, negotiation, presentation, and stakeholder-influence skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and resolve competing priorities without direct authority.
  • Experience building trusted relationships with strategic customers, regions, distributors, Sales, Engineering, and senior leadership.
  • Working knowledge of product development lifecycles, Product Delivery Phases, agile delivery practices, and portfolio governance.
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 40%.


Desired Skills

  • Mining operational experience and a strong understanding of production, haulage, fleet optimization, and mine management workflows.
  • Experience managing enterprise software, digital solutions, recurring revenue, subscription, or integrated hardware and software portfolios.
  • Experience with global product management, regional commercialization, channel strategy, and market expansion.
  • Experience with Aha!, Salesforce, Zendesk, Power BI, or comparable product, commercial, customer, and analytics platforms.
  • Product Management, Pragmatic, customer value, pricing, strategy, or related professional certification.
  • Experience developing strategic partnerships, ecosystem strategies, build-buy-partner assessments, or acquisition cases.
  • Experience presenting product strategy and investment proposals to executive leadership and strategic customers.
  • Experience translating operational outcomes into economic value propositions and differentiated commercial offers.

About Komatsu

Komatsu Ltd. is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures construction, mining, forestry, and military equipment, as well as diesel engines and industrial equipment like press machines, lasers and thermoelectric generators. Its headquarters are in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The corporation was named after the city of Komatsu, Ishikawa, where the company was founded in 1921. Worldwide, the Komatsu Group consists of Komatsu Ltd. and 258 other companies (215 consolidated subsidiaries and 42 companies accounted for by the equity method). Komatsu is the world's second largest manufacturer of construction equipment and mining equipment after Caterpillar Inc.
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