Senior Product Manager - Engines

The Senior Product Manager – Engines leads the end-to-end product lifecycle, ensuring successful launches and strategic growth of the engine product category. This role drives an innovative three–year product roadmap through market analysis, category research, and cross–functional collaboration. The incumbent synthesizes data into actionable insights that validate product development direction, prioritizes initiatives based on business capabilities, and monitors product quality metrics to address issues and support resolution.

• Develops product category strategy to drive revenue and profitability for assigned product lines, including specific, measurable goals such as percentage of market share, net sales, product revenue and margin growth.
• Prioritizes creation of strategies against business needs and market demand.
• Gathers and maintains category foundational research. This includes industry– and end–customer–focused research.
• Synthesizes data into facts and trends that validate company direction on product development.
• Serves as knowledge expert in product category relative product capability, technical specifications and features, as well as market drivers and the competitive landscape.
• Drives innovation–based three–year product roadmap to deliver concept ideation such as unique selling propositions, roadmap of new projects, improvements to existing products and product lines, new product launch timing, phasing out old product timing, channel/customer–driven NPI (new product introduction) projects, and cost–reduction projects.
• Builds and delivers timely reports and presentations to internal stakeholders and external customers, including relevant metrics and information related to the product line or category.
• Utilizes formal and informal communication to drive product strategy across the organization, gaining buy–in from a broad stakeholder base in a matrix environment.
• Collaborates across functions and leads indirect teams to move projects through the stage–gate development process.
• Drives activities and executes strategies to support the sales team and process at key launch events or product milestones.
• Works collaboratively with the engineering team to understand critical intellectual property, regulatory standards, legislation in order to update product category strategy as needed.
• Builds and articulates a business case relative to product category management.
• Understands, identifies and analyzes industry trends, market analysis and competition.
• Demonstrates mechanical aptitude.
• Demonstrates communication skills relative to product strategy.

• Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience in Business, Engineering, or related field.

• 3+ years in product management, engineering, or technical sales; exposure to diesel or gaseous reciprocating engine technology.
• Practical exposure to diesel or gaseous reciprocating engine technology, including suppliers and applications.

• Demonstrated capability to gather and utilize market analysis to understand the competitive landscape and drive product development decisions.
• Proven ability to articulate a business case to stakeholders and customers, including relevant product and market information tailored to the audience.
• Demonstrated technical skills for understanding and driving new product development in a manufacturing and engineering environment.
• Proven ability to conceive, develop and launch new products using a cross–disciplinary approach.
• Prior work in a commercial and industrial business–to–business focused company.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong presentation skills.
• Effective organizational and prioritization skills.
• Ability to act proactively and identify innovative solutions.
• Ability to read, understand, articulate to multiple audiences, and action upon technical information.
• Ability to work in a fast–paced environment and manage ambiguity with a penchant for action.

• MBA or Master’s Degree in a related field.

• Background in power generation and engine–driven…