Product Manager

Job-ID: 16643; Location(s): Broomfield, CO 

Job Description Summary

The Product Manager drives value creation and market leadership for a hardware-focused product portfolio in the North American Market. This role emphasizes tooling, plumbing, HVAC, and construction-related products, ensuring product lifecycle success by understanding customer needs in these industries, translating trade professionals’ pain points into hardware requirements, and shaping product features to fit market segments. The job holder is the key partner for all marketing topics with sales, engineering, development, supply, and quality functions. 

What You'll Do:

Strategy

• Communicate the strategy for product leadership in the assigned product portfolio.
• Defining and tracking success metrics of products and projects to measure ROI and allocate resources accordingly. 
• Align with Viega’s global product development to define the product strategy 
• Meet with cross functional teams to discuss recommendations and implement plans, as appropriate.

Product

• Gain a deep understanding of the customer experience to identify product gaps.
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to perform customer interviews and market assessments that allows to advocate for customers and their needs.
• Develop product positioning and messaging that differentiates Viega across market segments.  

Market Share

• Champion new product and go-to-market ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth by translating product strategy into requirements.
• Drive the execution of all processes in the product lifecycle, including product and market research, competitor analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, and product launch.

Revenue

• Responsible for assigned product lines revenue and gross margin with transparent pricing strategy and ensuring time to market within new product development activities.
• Lead the creation of product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, revenue, and ROI to be used for pricing and revenue modeling to meet the user needs.

Agile Collaboration

• Drive product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members.
• Work with the sales team to perform trend and market analysis to develop sales strategies and define product objectives for effective marketing communications.
• Close collaboration with engineering and production teams to ensure product availability and quality.
• Agile drive of multi department projects along the product lifecycle.

Global Integration

• Align Viega’s global product development initiatives with North American market needs, contribute with regional requirements to develop a global product portfolio.
• Be the customers ambassador in new product developments and product adoptions globally.

Other

• Attends meetings as required and/or assigned.
• Performs other duties as required and/or assigned.

Special Job Dimensions

• Will be required to travel up to 10% of the time.
• Remote flexibility

What We're Looking For:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience in product management and product development life cycles
• Experience in product strategy development and road mapping tools
• Expertise in project and program management
• High-level modern technical and product knowledge
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Innovation and creative management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead and motivate others
• Ability to learn CRM, SAP, BW and other internal programs
• High ethical standards and ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and maturity
• Methodical and diligent with outstanding planning abilities
• Ability to effectively project manage initiatives with cross-functional stakeholder.
• Highly organized with strong project management skills; ability to manage complex processes
• Strong execution skills, with ability to work independently while pursuing organizational and team goals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation development skills

Education, Certification/License & Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5-8 years experience

Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.

Wondering if you should apply? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Viega, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but don’t check every box in the qualifications section, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have in the future.

Your contact person:

Johnathan Nuthall  -  John.Nuthall@viega.us - +1 (620) 798-9059