Product Manager II

Product Manager

ITW Power Nailing, a division within the Construction Products segment, is a global provider of premium nailing and fastening solutions. Our products are engineered to improve contractor productivity and elevate building quality across both new residential construction and remodeling projects. With trusted, category-defining brands like Paslode, we set the standard in wood-to-wood fastening systems—delivering performance, reliability, and productivity that professionals count on.

ITW offers you a path for advancement, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package designed to help employees care for themselves, their families, and their futures. Our Glenview office has a free onsite fitness center, active employee resource groups, corporate discounts, and much more. We are just one block away from the Golf Metra station and quick train ride to downtown Chicago.

The Product Manager will set strategy, drive innovation, and oversee profitability across their product categories. As the owner of the full product lifecycle, you will collaborate with all functional teams within the division. You will serve as the category leader, responsible for managing the entire product portfolio.

We're seeking business-minded professionals who excel at problem-solving, communicate effectively, and thrive in entrepreneurial environments. Success in this role requires leveraging the ITW Business Model—focusing on end-user-driven product development, applying 80/20 prioritization, and simplifying processes—to drive sustainable growth across product categories.

Key responsibilities include:

• Customer Back Innovation: Execute the new product development roadmap to seize key market opportunities. Champion the Customer Back Innovation stage gate process through effective collaboration. You will oversee new product rollout efforts including forecasting volumes, end user validation, integrated marketing planning as well as sales and channel training.
• End User Intimacy: Gain strong understanding of voice of customer through qualitative and quantitative market research that drive product strategy and development. You will lead end user segmentation to ensure proper targeting and prioritization.
• Product Portfolio Management: Lead product portfolio strategy including management of existing product mix and pricing strategy to drive top- and bottom-line financial performance. Participate in capacity planning efforts working with operations and engineering. Responsible for product line maintenance including SKU rationalization and simplification to optimize the product mix and financials.
• Financial Ownership: The Product Manager will own the P&L for their product categories and deliver on key metrics by utilizing key performance indicators.
• Market Landscape: The Product Manager will build a full understanding of the market dynamics including customer and end user trends, competitive trends and actions and will drive market sizing efforts to ensure focus on addressable market, including the strengths and weaknesses of our competitors' products/brands.

Required qualifications include:

• Bachelor's Degree required in business, engineering, marketing, or comparable discipline
• 3+ years of marketing experience
• 2+ years of product management experience and product development experience, from inception to product introduction
• Ability to analyze financial results and new market opportunities
• Proficient in Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• The ability to travel is approximately 20%

Preferred qualifications include:

• MBA or master's degree
• Full product lifecycle management experience
• Experience with durable goods
• Strong team/project management, communications, and presentation skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Ability to maintain a keen attention to detail, multitask and work well under pressure
• Natural tendency to be curious, positive, and creative

This position requires an employee to work in a variety of locations including, but not limited to home office, job sites, lumberyards, and distributor locations. These environments are not controlled by ITW.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, talk, hear, reach with hands and arms, and regularly required to walk. Must be able to lift 40 lbs., able to walk and stand for long periods of time at customer events, trade shows, and job site locations. Position requires approximately 20% travel and the ability to operate a motor vehicle.

In addition, our benefits include paid vacation, sick, holiday, and parental leave.

Annual base salary range for this position is $115,000 to $130,000 plus annual performance bonus. Please note that this salary information serves as a general guideline. Company considers various factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education and training, key skills, as well as market and business considerations.

ITW is an equal opportunity employer. We value our colleagues' unique perspectives, experiences and ideas and create workplaces where everyone can develop their careers and perform to their full potential.