Regional Product Manager (Director)

ELGi North America

$120K — $145K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, business discipline, or relevant field
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in B2B industrial equipment
  • Strong commercial acumen
  • Leadership and influence capability
  • Effective task prioritization and implementation skills
  • Strong analytical and creative thinking abilities
  • Proficient with MS Office Suite

Responsibilities

  • Manage product portfolio and prepare business cases for new products
  • Develop and execute product positioning strategies
  • Oversee commercial product launches and communications
  • Support distributors with technical assistance and project bids
  • Create product-specific warranties aligned with global strategies
  • Manage a unified distributor portal for resources and training
  • Conduct product life cycle profitability analysis and monitor key parameters

Benefits

  • Technical support for distributor sales and service
  • Opportunities to participate in strategic company initiatives
  • Access to product training and development programs
  • Engagement with industry committees like AEM and CAGI
  • Collaboration with teams in India for design requirements
Full Job Description
About the Opportunity

The Regional Product Manager (Director) is responsible for ELGi's North American product portfolio development and revenue expansion by identifying potential products; conducting market research; generating local product requirements; determining product specifications; assisting in production timetables; local market pricing; product marketing strategies; local market product support and time-integrated plans for product introductions.

As Regional Product Manager for ELGi North America, you will be responsible for:

Product portfolio management including:
  • Preparing business cases for new products and developing product road map.
  • Developing and executing strategy for positioning new products.
  • Overseeing commercial product launch and communications for new products
  • Developing and executing strategy for the expansion of sourced product lines and product adjacency development.

Product portfolio maintenance and support including:
  • Offering technical support to distributors' sales and service functions.
  • Providing support to distributors on project bids.

Communication of product value proposition through value tools including:
  • Developing product-specific warranties that align with the global warranty plan and product positioning strategy.
  • Providing technical content for all product marketing collaterals and communications.
  • Creating and managing mobile-based tools designed to improve sales and service effectiveness.

Creating and managing a unified distributor portal that houses commercial / technical documents, training content, and training evaluation

Product P&L management including:
  • Conducting product life cycle profitability analysis
  • Defining the process to track, monitor, and review key profitability parameters for equipment and spares.

Partnering with sales team to review sales forecasts and develop a budget for new and existing products.

Developing product training strategy and implementation including,
  • Structures for internal sales, internal service, customer, and product line-specific training modules.
  • Developing training content.
  • Developing and continually assessing mechanisms for assessing knowledge retention.


ELGi representation to the portable statistics committee of AEM and portable and industrial section of CAGI

Co-ordination with the NSD team in India for Non-Standard Design Requirements

Participation in companywide strategic initiatives like GTM for EPSAC & GTM for Oil Free

About You

The Product Manager opportunity may be a match for you if you have the following qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, business discipline or relevant field, minimum 10 years' relevant experience in a B2B industrial equipment field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Strong commercial background
  • Ability to lead and influence people
  • Ability to prioritize tasks, develop a plan, and own the implementation
  • Team-oriented and customer-focused
  • Strong analytical and creative thinking skills
  • Self-motivated and results-driven with a strong sense of initiative
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficient with MS Office Suite

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