Group Product Line Manager

Group Product Line Manager

Location(s) Hudson, Wisconsin

What You Will Do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Line Managers and Associate Product Line Managers, setting clear expectations, priorities, and performance goals.
• Own the product portfolio strategy, ensuring alignment with business unit objectives, market trends, and customer requirements.
• Guide roadmap development, lifecycle management, and portfolio optimization to drive profitable growth and long-term competitiveness.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing leadership to prioritize investments, support new product development, and ensure successful product launches.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing leaders to strengthen value propositions, pricing strategies, and commercialization plans across the portfolio.
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for product performance, margin, growth, and execution excellence.
• Act as an escalation point for complex customer engagements, supporting strategic accounts, pricing decisions, and solution development.
• Drive continuous improvement in product management processes, tools, and best practices across the team.
• Interface with manufacturing plants to support cost reduction initiatives, capacity planning, and quality improvements at a portfolio level.

Demonstrated capability to own and drive portfolio-level financial performance, including multi-line pricing strategy, margin improvement, capital trade-offs, and investment prioritization

Experience overseeing product lifecycle management across multiple product lines, including roadmap alignment and portfolio rationalization

Demonstrated expertise working with customers directly to establish VOC and developing a product strategy around that with respective teams

Strong track record of driving cross-functional alignment at scale, resolving systemic handoff issues, and ensuring consistent execution across multiple programs, sites, or teams

Experience synthesizing market trends, customer insights, and competitive dynamics across product lines to inform portfolio strategy and guide product prioritization

Experience managing direct reports, including leading, mentoring, and coaching, building bench strength, and elevating capability across the team

Experience influencing decision-making across functions and organizational levels, balancing short-term execution with long-term strategic outcomes

Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with experience representing the product portfolio to senior leadership, customers, and internal stakeholders

Willingness and ability to travel approximately 25% or more in support of customers, business engagement, and cross-functional leadership

Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related discipline

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