Product Manager

Omniseal Solutions / Saint-Gobain Bristol, CT

At Saint-Gobain/Omniseal Solutions, our collaborative spirit enables us to go beyond the boundaries of possible together with our global customers. This is how precision sealing and wear control solutions are custom engineered to protect critical applications in the most demanding environments: cryogenic, high temperature/pressure, ultra high vacuum, tight tolerances, and leakage control. With our teams of industry experts, problem solving engineers and precision manufacturers, we are helping to create the world of tomorrow.

With a legacy dating back to 360 years, Saint-Gobain offers employees the stability and security of a leading Global 500 corporation while operating like multiple small and agile start-ups, where entrepreneurial spirit, pioneering teamwork, and bold, forward-thinking ideas pave new paths.

Every team member is encouraged to develop and leverage their unique expertise and strengths to make the greatest impact on the company and our end users. At Saint-Gobain, you’re empowered and equipped with countless opportunities and resources for professional development. You will find the support you need to create a vision and roadmap for your career, and make that vision a reality.

What’s the job?

Meldin and Hycomp are the 2 brands of Omniseal solutions, for high temperature polymer materials product family. These polyimides based material are used in a large variety of high tech markets as Aerospace, Semiconductor or Life sciences to offer mechanical components solutions with and wear & friction properties.

The Product manager has the global responsibility of a product line has a strong focus on developing and re-enforcing competitiveness and value proposition of its product line.

They are the product «referent » and will have to communicate and provide this expertise through the business, with the goal of bringing our commercial teams to a high level of awareness about our offer and capabilities, and the capacity of developing a dialog with customers based on value offered by our solutions.

The candidate will have to be able to coordinate different projects around its product line with cross functional teams. All these projects aiming at bringing more transversality between market groups.

Examples of projects are:

• New Product Development
• Product roadmap development and follow up
• New products certification (Industry qualifications)
• New features and services First partners of this position, will be the technical team, Operations teams, R&D or commercial teams.

This position has no direct reports and requires an individual who has proficient interpersonal skills to achieve results by cooperation. Projects to be led by this person can be local, regional or international. The role will involve up to 50% travel.

Product strategy – Development, maintenance and execution of product road map
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• Based on a yearly product canvas analysis, individual has to develop a road map for its product line. This roadmap supports developing a mid-term /long term product strategy with proper level of priority to meet clusters needs. The goal is also to provide a vision for the product line to include the proper level of competitiveness and manage the product life cycle.
  
  The product strategy aims at developing new services and features for the product line to enrich customer experience, including product qualification and certification to market standard defined and required by cluster for their strategy execution. Product line extension with integration of new product, and clear definition of product positioning

Innovation strategy around the product line :

• Management of new product development portfolio of projects by setting up priorities defined by adequate business cases

Product competitiveness - Cost management and pricing strategy:

• Analysis to be completed and maintained about cost structure of product line and understanding of most impactful drivers, leading to action plan for keeping good level of competitiveness. Action plan can include initiatives about production methods improvement, supply chain rationalization or possible partnership. Goal of this strategy being…