Product Manager

Responsible for activities of designated products for the Pedestal PRO brand. A Product Manager will manage the product lifecycle of the Pedestal PRO product lines and categories as assigned.

Responsibilities include:

analysis of competitive products, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager's job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company's overall strategy and goals.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily:
Successfully manage the Pedestal PRO product category, as assigned. This includes continuous analysis of the product category performance throughout each product’s lifecycle. Required deliverables will include category and product performance analysis, gap analysis, product retirement analysis, SWOT analysis, and PEST analysis. Develop market requirement documents, product proposals, and financial business cases for all new product development projects to ensure design, features, markets, and profitability align with the organization’s business strategy.

Develop product category strategy, product roadmaps and product generation plans. Identify and recommend new business opportunities and product feature requirements. Regularly perform pricing and competitive analysis by customer channel and recommend strategies to improve market position, quality and costs. Generate forecasts for revenue, unit volumes and profit for assigned products. Conduct tracking against goals and suggest strategic adjustments when needed to achieve goals.

Maintain current knowledge of all major competitive products, market and product trends. Regularly communicate this information to all levels of management as required. Develop strategic marketing plans for new products in coordination with sales, marketing, engineering and operations. This includes product definitions, pricing, positioning and channel strategies, and KPI’s for measuring results. Develop product training programs in coordination with sales, marketing and training group.

Be the product expert to assist customers with technical information about products. Assess customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions. Manage all new product beta and functional field testing (FFT’s). This includes assisting in identifying potential test sites, coordination with engineering of field installations, and monitoring of product test sites and results. Responsible for keeping product line up to date will all code and compliance requirements.

Travel is required, up to one week per month. Other duties may be assigned. Individuals who need reasonable accommodations to enable them to perform these essential functions should discuss their needs with Human Resources. EMS Phoenix will provide reasonable accommodations to such individuals unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on EMS or the individual is a direct threat.

This position does not have direct supervisory responsibility.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required for this position. Education and/or

Experience:

Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) from four-year college or university, MBA a plus. Ten (10) years experience in a related technical field;
Applicable credentials associated with access control technology products;
Experience in the field of access control integration with a full understanding of their requirements, design, usage and functionality;
Or equivalent combination of…