Job Details
The TPO Product Manager is responsible and accountable for leading and driving the strategic growth of Elevate's TPO product category. This includes providing clear and customer centric inputs to product development, product rationalization, market positioning, and market launch using a stage-gate process for all products in the Holcim Building Envelope Portfolio of that product category.
Responsibilities of the Product Manager include:
Lead the development and implementation of a
- Comprehensive understanding of the TPO markets Elevate is competing in, both on a macro-economic and product-specific scale. In alignment with sales and management, analyze our product solution sales and profitability along our sales channels
- Comprehensive understanding of the competitive landscape
- Regular, strategic customer relationship strategy in alignment with sales to assess customer and industry needs and to identity strategic customer partnerships for launching new products
- Life cycle strategy to optimize our existing product solution portfolio with a focus on optimizing cost, complexity and portfolio efficiency and effectiveness related to business impact.
- Product solution roadmap to expand our product solution portfolio to drive growth through innovation and new product solutions.
Execute - Strategies per agreed to timeline and KPIs
- Continuous and regular customer interactions in alignment with sales, strategies
- Special projects as requested by management
Ensure - Alignment with the organization, especially sales, field technical experts and management.
- Effective and efficient communication to customers, working teams and management
- Support of cross-functional projects as prioritized by the business
- Support of marketing activities as prioritized by management
- Support of pricing activities with market and competitive data in coordination with sales and management.
Required - BS degree in Engineering/Business or related field, MBA Preferred;
- Direct experience and knowledge base in TPO roofing products a must
- 10 years progressive experience in Engineering/Technology/Marketing/Sales functions or related field.
- Experience in a combination of the following areas: Project Management, Product Management, Product Development, Marketing & Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance for a Building Material major supplier.
- Experience in managing a portfolio of products related to Construction industry, B2B or Industrial goods.
- Travel required up to 25%
- Data driven personality with strong interpersonal skills and analytical capabilities. Excel capabilities is a must.
- Can do attitude and ambition to have an impact on the business
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