Duke Manufacturing Co. ยท 3 days ago
Product Manager
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Food and BeverageMachinery Manufacturing
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Responsibilities
Provide product and category leadership and management, including prioritization of activities within the product lifecycle.
Understand market, customer and technology trends, including the competitive landscape. Lead voice of customer (VOC) and environment of customer (EOC) activities.
Be the customer advocate for needs/features/value, prioritizing to drive minimum viable product (MVP) thinking. Lead commercialization plans.
Drive strategic pricing and VA/VE activities. Collaborate with marketing and value stream to clearly articulate value propositions.
Uncover consequential customer pains/gains through VOC & EOC activities.
Scale existing platforms to new customers, fold existing products into platforms, and create platforms around new opportunities.
Discover, develop, and filter attractive product/service/business model opportunities.
Sustain daily guidance and support - balancing customer and business needs.
Qualification
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Required
5-7 years' experience (business to business) in product management, product development, or product marketing.
Capital goods experience preferred.
Strong business acumen and insight. Uses knowledge of marketplace business drivers, strategies, and tactics to guide decisions. Utilizes quantitative and qualitative data analysis to drive decision-making.
Strategic Mindset. Skilled at uncovering spoken and unspoken pain, linking trends to business implications, and working through ambiguity to identify gaps and test value propositions.
High decision quality and judgement. Strong critical thinking skills - able to uncover root cause, evaluate tradeoff decisions, and pull information from multiple diverse sources to drive decision making, even in the absence of complete information.
Self-motivated, takes initiative and drives results.
Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills. Is effective in a variety of communication settings: one on one, small and large groups, or among diverse styles and position levels.
Customer focus. Seeks engagement with customers and partners to learn, gain insights, and validate solutions.
Technical Acumen. Ability to understand available and future technologies to drive product strategy.
Preferred
Masters degree / MBA preferred, or a Bachelor's degree and relevant on-the-job training and experience.
Up to 25% travel may be required to customer locations, trade shows and conventions.
This is a hybrid work-from-home position that requires the employee to be able to work in our St. Louis office up to three (3) days per week.
Company
Duke Manufacturing Co.
Duke Manufacturing Co. designs and manufactures more than 4,500 foodservice equipment products for a wide-range of clients located across the U.S.
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