Global Product Strategy Manager

The Global Product Strategy Manager is responsible for defining OTR's long-term global product strategy for wheels, tires, and track systems. This management level role owns the product portfolio, technology roadmaps, market intelligence, customer insights, and innovation pipeline. Working closely with Sales, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and OEM customers, the Manager identifies where OTR should invest its engineering resources to deliver profitable growth and sustainable competitive advantage via the technology and product roadmap.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Owns the global product portfolio and recommends where OTR should compete, invest, expand, or exit.
• Develops and maintains 3, 5, and 10-year product and technology roadmaps.
• Leads Voice of Customer activities through direct engagement with OEMs, distributors, dealers, end users, and internal stakeholders.
• Partners with Sales to identify unmet customer needs and converts them into strategic product opportunities.
• Leads global market research, market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), trend analysis, and competitive intelligence.
• Benchmarks competitors' products, technologies, pricing, manufacturing capabilities, patents, and market positioning.
• Develops business cases including revenue potential, margin, ROI, NPV, payback, investment requirements, risks, and strategic fit.
• Owns the product innovation funnel and prioritize opportunities using data-driven decision making.
• Presents quarterly portfolio reviews, technology roadmaps, competitive updates, and investment recommendations to executive leadership.
• Drives portfolio lifecycle decisions including product launches, enhancements, rationalization, and end-of-life planning.
• Identifies emerging technologies, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and university collaborations that strengthen OTR's competitive position.
• Works cross-functionally with Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, and Sales to align strategy with execution.
• Other duties can be assigned based on company need and employee capability.
• Strategic product planning
• Voice of Customer
• Competitive analysis
• Executive communication
• Influence without authority
• Innovation leadership
• Data analytics

• Exceptional analytical, research, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex market data into actionable strategy.
• Executive presentation and storytelling skills.
• Advanced Excel, Power BI/Tableau, and financial modeling capabilities.
• Strong interviewing and relationship-building skills with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Knowledge of off-highway wheels, tires, tracks, and OEM markets preferred.

• Initially an individual contributor role with strategic leadership responsibilities. Leads through influence across global functions and may build and lead a future Product Strategy organization.

This role operates in a professional office environment.

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds at times (occasionally).
• Utilizing engineering test and inspection equipment requires some dexterity and flexibility.

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00AM to 5:00PM. To meet our customer demands and internal objectives, at times this role will be required to work outside of the normal schedule, including weekends.

Travel up to 25% of the time domestically and internationally as needed and required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, Economics,…