Hybrid Product Manager – Portables

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About the role

  • Global Product Manager responsible for the portable fire suppression product portfolio. Collaborating with global teams for product strategy and market alignment while ensuring compliance with regional regulations.

Responsibilities

  • Assess global and regional market trends, customer needs, and voice-of-customer insights
  • Conduct market sizing, segmentation, and targeting across regions and applications
  • Perform ongoing competitive, regulatory, and standards analysis for the global Portables portfolio
  • Monitor regional differences in codes, certifications, and customer requirements, particularly across North America and Europe
  • Develop and maintain the global product line strategy and roadmap for the Portables portfolio
  • Define clear value propositions for individual products and configurations by region and customer segment
  • Establish pricing and positioning guidelines that balance global consistency with regional flexibility
  • Communicate product strategy, value propositions, and lifecycle plans across the global organization
  • Contribute to and maintain a multi-year global product roadmap
  • Lead new product development and major enhancements using a structured, multi-stage gated development process
  • Partner with global engineering and manufacturing teams in the U.S. and Germany to define product requirements, including cost, quality, compliance, and timing targets
  • Develop detailed business cases for new products, regional variants, and major enhancements
  • Manage the global product portfolio with accountability for SKUs, pricing, profitability, quality, warranty, and regional sales performance
  • Drive portfolio simplification, SKU rationalization, and harmonization initiatives where appropriate
  • Analyze sales trends and proactively communicate product updates, transitions, and roadmaps to internal stakeholders and customers
  • Interface regularly with end users, sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams across regions

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field
  • 3–5+ years of business experience
  • Experience managing products through a phased-gate or structured product development process
  • Strong customer-facing skills with experience engaging external customers and partners
  • Proven ability to work effectively in a global, matrixed organization across multiple functions and regions
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
  • Strong financial and general business acumen
  • Ability to travel approximately 10–20%, including international travel

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
  • Comprehensive benefits package including 401(k), pension, medical, dental, and vision care (available day one)
  • On-the-job and cross-training opportunities
  • Encouraging and collaborative team environment
  • Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

Job title

Product Manager – Portables

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$100,000 - $150,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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