Acuity · 17 hours ago
Senior Manager Product Lifecycle Management
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$104K/yr - $187K/yr
10+ years expAcuity Inc. is a market-leading industrial technology company that focuses on innovative solutions in lighting and building management. The Senior Manager Product Lifecycle Management will lead strategic transformation initiatives, overseeing multiple efforts to align with business objectives and drive collaboration across teams.
ElectronicsLightingManufacturingSmart BuildingSmart Home
Responsibilities
Driving strategic vision and maximizing platform value, focusing on improving business workflows leveraging the digital and data capabilities of PLM and ensuring adoption of the PLM digital capabilities
Proactively define scope, success criteria, and delivery milestones in collaboration with stakeholders. Holds the vision while enabling flexibility for delivery teams
Working with the business and product teams to define the target state for product lifecycle management with deep understanding of the product engineering domain and how the digital capabilities will enable workflows, SLAs, product delivery in the target state
Working across business and technology stakeholders and across Luminaires, Electronics and AIS to ensure alignment on vision, roadmap, requirements, release strategy and roll out plans and roadmap. Work closely with the Product management team to measure adoption, productivity and satisfaction with PLM capabilities and work with the tech team to translate user input to product backlog for improvements
Defining and prioritizing the development and implementation of PLM capabilities to meet business needs across ABL, AIS and Tech functions. Align roadmap and sequencing with digital transformation and business growth and productivity goals
Working with the product team to act as a bridge between stakeholders and engineering, ensuring priorities and requirements are well-defined and aligned with business objectives and are well understood from change management perspective. Work with business to align work processes and define data in service delivery to match standard functionality
Lead the change management, working with the team to plan release of capabilities, communications, training and transition to enable new ways of working. Understanding change implications at a sufficient level of detail for processes, end to end data flows, service level agreements, user satisfaction and experience to help the team navigate watch outs, anticipate and mitigate risk and disruption
Synthesizing insights from traffic patterns and user requests to continuously improve technology and business processes, and work with the team to enable self-service and automate transaction processing
Facilitates weekly and bi-weekly syncs across workstreams and with key stakeholders to report progress, drive accountability, problem solve blockers, and create transparency for risks ahead of time. Help the team frame trade-offs, keep record of key decisions, facilitate escalation as needed
Sets operating rhythms (steering committees, touchpoints, cross-functional reviews) and shares clear meeting goals and outputs, sets agenda, keeps the notes on key takeaways and follows up on actions as needed
Overseeing product backlog, collaborating with teams to enhance platform capabilities for continuous improvement after the initial release of PLM
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in complex program or product management role
Knowledge of product engineering space, product lifecycle management principles, processes, and best practice preferred
Strong leadership and people management skills to lead and motivate teams, drive collaboration, and make decisions that impact the product lifecycle and master data domains
Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and their role in managing master data end to end
Experience with Lighting or other relevant manufacturing involving supply chain, order fulfillment including products, engineering, competitors, trends, and customer needs
Demonstrated track record of establishing digital strategy, deploying new digital capabilities that fundamentally change business process, using data and analysis to support strategy and prioritization, and day to day product execution
A track record of driving innovation and bringing new products or features to market successfully throughout the product lifecycle
Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to work well with highly cross-functional teams
Data driven mindset, which includes analytical skills to analyze data, market trends, and product performance throughout the lifecycle to make informed decisions
Strong communication skills in both written and verbal forms
Benefits
Health care
Dental coverage
Vision plans
401K benefits
Commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role
Company
Acuity
Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Neil Ashe
CEO
Vernon J. Nagel
Executive Chairman
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