Global Product Line Manager

at  Gates Corporation

Are you inspired by challenging the status quo? Do you thrive in collaborative environments that drive results? If so, Gates could be for you.
Gates is a leading manufacturer of application-specific fluid power and power transmission solutions. We push the boundaries of material science to engineer solutions that continually exceed customer expectations.
Let’s simplify it, think belts and hoses. Found in motorcycles, conveyor belts, cars, tractors, blenders, vacuum cleaners, bicycles, & 3D printers just to name a few. Because why not do it all?

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supporting P&L for the product line, including strategic planning and tactical managing to achieve financial and other operating metrics.
• Conducting voice of the customer interviews and feeding customer desires into internal organization through customer visits, industry association participation, and competitive research.
• Acting as overall project manager for the NPD process for the product line to achieve desired results. Ensuring that feature, quality, and cost objectives are reached and that schedules are kept. Preparing required Market Launch materials. Documenting product specs, strategy, plans, and training needs.
• Leading all aspects of the new product launch process and commercialization.
• Maintaining current knowledge and expertise of product engineering technologies, new product designs, competitor capabilities and practices, market conditions, and market channels in order to develop short-term and long-term product design and necessary manufacturing strategies.
• Developing and coordinating marketing communications materials for all sales channels, internal and external.
• Continually analyzing and interpreting customer questions, requirements, or problems.
• Supporting the preparation of effective quotations, bids, and related negotiation documentation for the sales of products produced by the company.

As Gates Corporation looks into the future, Product Line Management (PLM) has been identified as a crucial role that will drive the next phase of our company’s growth. Located in our Englewood office, you will be reporting to the Global Product Line Director - Hydraulic Hose and Assemblies. This role is involved in the development and implementation of product line strategic plans, including market and competitive analysis and identifying strategic initiatives that drive profitable growth. The PLM will lay out product roadmaps and work with engineering to lay out technology roadmaps that support these product roadmaps.

• You will support the formulation of all short-term and long-term objectives and business plans for their product line, including meeting orders, sales, market share, price realization, profitability, VA/VE, quality, delivery and vitality metrics.
• Your objective will be to identify, justify and select new product development projects and marketing programs to obtain desired growth in incoming orders and sales and achieve profitability targets.
• This is an opportunity to collaborate with technical resources to manage the portfolio of organic investments in the product line across the entire product lifecycle from ideation through to commercialization and end-of-life!
• You’ll be working with sales and customers to capture VOC and incorporate it into product planning and execution.
• You’ll be coordinating with operations to ensure the manufacturability and delivery of product per growth projections