Intralox is currently seeking a Product Manager for our Manufacturing Team to work out of our New Orleans, LA office. The successful candidate will manage a portfolio of products across their life cycles from a manufacturing perspective, as well as help shape the vision for how product management evolves within Intralox manufacturing over the next 3-5 years.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements
Responsibilities: - Own the manufacturing product strategy and roadmap for a dedicated product line, serving as the subject matter expert for products under management.
- Lead product lifecycle management, with a focus on manufacturing cost and profitability:
- Understand cost structure and manufacturing operations for products under management.
- Identify the products and opportunities with the highest potential for improvement and partner with engineering and commercial teams to pursue cost reduction.
- Partner with Quality, Engineering, and Production Control on product-level issues that affect cost or availability.
- Identify and mitigate risk across key lifecycle events, including launches, cutovers, and obsoletions.
- Maintain visibility into manufacturing capacity, align it with forecasts, and flag constraints early so leaders can act before they become urgent.
- Maintain continuity after new product development closes, through full stabilization.
- Partner with leadership to evaluate and prioritize product-level opportunities using cost, capacity, and customer-impact data, focusing the organization on the vital few.
- Build strong relationships with commercial, finance, and supply chain partners to represent manufacturing in key decisions.
- Champion a steering committee for overall manufacturing product management and the direction it moves in
- Influence across functions without direct authority, driving consistency and reducing duplicated effort across teams that touch product management work.
Requirements: - Business or Engineering degree or equivalent work experience
- 3-5 years of Product Management experience, plus demonstrated experience standing up a process, program, or function
- Manufacturing or operations experience (process flow, cost drivers, capacity) a plus
- Self-starter who builds structure and process in ambiguous environments, with a track record of influencing cross-functional partners
- Strong background in financial analysis of products and/or business operations overall.
- Ability to understand product value streams and evaluate profit margins on products
- Lean or continuous improvement mindset (waste elimination, focusing on the vital few)
- Strong communication
- Willing to travel (up to 15%) to global manufacturing sites
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