Job Title: Product Manager
Department:  Regional Product Management 
Location: Farmington, Connecticut

Summary:
This position is responsible for regional product management on strategic and operational level along the product lifecycle.

Essential Functions of the Job:
The essential functions of this job require the person, with or without reasonable accommodations, to perform the following:

Strategic level:

• Responsible for local product portfolio and roadmap incl. priorities and quantities (new & series products)
• Interface to central PM for local issues and needed localizations and developments
• Interface to sales and regional Strategic Business Fields (SBFs)
• Interface to target costing
• Enable Sales and Strategic Business Fields (SBFs) to build up market intelligence in Region and align needed information for new product development and localization strategy 
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) process responsibility in region 

Operational level along product life cycle:

Phase-in:

• Collection of regional product requirements.
• Align local and global requirements with global PM.
• Triggering and prioritization of local product development
• Owner of local Product Steering Committee
• Definition of target prices for local products -Gross Rating Point (GRP)
• Definition regional sales price discount (Pricing)

In market:

• Responsible for regional product launch strategy (marketing briefing and measures, information package, product positioning)
• Regional product optimization and portfolio management
• Monitoring of regional product KPI’s (cost, sales, production)
• Support of regional sales and marketing activities

Phase-out:

• Responsible for regional product launch strategy (marketing briefing and measures, information package, product positioning)

Recommended Education and/or Experience:

• Master / Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university is required.
• Preferred Degrees: Business Administration, Product Engineering, or another technical discipline.
• 3+ years proven track record in Product Management

All Employees are Expected To:

• Follow the Employee Handbook policies and procedures and uphold organizational values.  
• Contribute to building a positive work environment. 
• Report for work consistently and on time. 
• Report to supervision conditions or practices that are unsafe to ebm‑papst and its employees.  

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