Product Manager - Sensing

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Job Description

As a Product Manager, you will be a member of the Safety, Sensing and Connectivity Portfolio team, with dedicated product lines in the sensing sector. You will report to the Business Manager of Sensing and Connectivity and be responsible for planning, maintaining profitability, determining customer requirements, and technical resolutions while launching products and creating commercial messaging for the proximity sensor offerings. You will lead and oversee multiple projects, workstreams and customer requests while communicating to internal and external customers. You will define and lead the execution of product strategy in alignment with established business priorities. You will work Hybrid in either Chelmsford, MA or Milwaukee, WI Rockwell office.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Achieve yearly revenue and profit margin goals for the assigned portfolio.
• Build an understanding of complex problem domains and constraints relative to the product line and implement short- and long-term business plans
• Develop marketing messages for customer presentations, trade shows, and seminars.
• Lead the development of commercial collateral for new product launches.
• Educate, motivate and train the global sales channel to promote and sell the responsible portfolio.
• Manage the product life cycle for the responsible portfolio including improvements, enhancements, change notice approvals, and obsolescence consistent with business plans.
• Lead voice of customer activities and effectively communicate needs for next-generation solutions.
• Define new product requirements for next-generation solutions.
• Work with third-party suppliers to define and verify new product requirements.
• Serve as an escalation to assist with customer support and issue resolution.
• Analyze competitive products and develop comparisons.
• Participate in cross department projects to enhance technical understanding and influence evolution of products and solutions.
• Provide unit volume and financial forecast to manufacturing and accounting.
• Product life cycle management including initiation of product improvements, enhancements, approval of change notices and product obsolescence consistent with business plans
• Understand current industry trends, changing market trends, regulatory requirements, and competitive products related to the responsible portfolio. Using this information to define the product strategy and roadmap.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• Ability to travel, including internationally, up to 25% of time.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Typically requires 3+ years of relevant experience with product marketing and a close familiarity with the tasks of product development, production, application, sales, and distribution.
• Demonstration of strong leadership capability with problem solving within a cross functional and cross business teams.
• Experience communicating complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences and an ability to work within a team environment to achieve our goals.
• Experience championing innovation in product line by creating both product differentiation, attachment opportunities and increasing product portfolio, while being a thought leader.
• Previous experience with control system design, control cabinet/panel design, and implementation and commissioning of industrial control equipment.
• Experience with Rockwell Automation products and solutions.

What We Offer:

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401K
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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Rockwell Automation's hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.