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Product Manager – Americas

Do you have a passion for product? Do you relish opportunities to question, innovate, and build a better user experience? Are you looking to become a key strategic force within a high-growth team? If so, you could be a perfect fit for our newly created Senior Product Management role out of our Sussex, Wisconsin office.

The Avire Americas team is looking for a highly driven, product management professional intent on owning our product roadmap and delivering the best user experience in the industry! Your challenge is to continually question, evaluate product opportunities and trade-offs, and continually review products for optimization while keeping the customer at the center of your decisions. You will be a critical member of the Americas leadership team setting strategic direction for the business.

What will you be doing?

1. Actively managing the full product suite including hardware, software, and services technologies. Tasks will include reviewing business cases for new products, setting prioritization for the business, and managing the commercial product launch process
2. Reviewing the current portfolio for efficiency through product rationalization efforts and owning the end-of-life process
3. Effectively communicating, with multiple organizational functions including engineering, sales, marketing communications, and production.
4. Serving as the critical voice of the customer to the organization setting clear expectations for the engineering team
5. Evaluating the portfolio for areas of risk and deploying countermeasures to mitigate that risk
6. Working with sales and marketing to ensure that we have all necessary components to support effective product launches from internal training to customer deployment
7. Setting the pricing and positioning strategy for our portfolio with assistance from the data operations team to drive margin improvement
8. Meet stated performance objectives for both new products and the broader product portfolio
9. Other duties as assigned

We want someone who displays:

Action-Oriented Curiosity: You readily take on challenges, and you identify and seize new opportunities. You have an outstanding history of delivering on your projects. You work on the problems that truly need solving, and you effectively challenge the organization to be better. You can cut through the clutter and focus on the priorities that align with organizational objectives.

Collaboration: You embrace the unique experiences, viewpoints, and abilities of your teammates and proactively engage those differences to come to the best possible outcome. Creating an effective sales team is incredibly motivating to you, and you put your employees first recognizing that you succeed only when they succeed.

Empowerment: You thrive in an environment where you can make decisions. You do not shy away from taking a stand, and you recognize the importance of challenging the team to ensure that we strive for more. You also empower your employees to make decisions giving them the tools to do so successfully.

Accountability: You take responsibility for your actions, and you deliver on your commitments. You hold the members of your team to high standards while ensuring they have the support they need to reach those lofty goals.

Inclusion: In all aspects of your work, you treat everyone with respect.

Performance Objectives

1. New product launches are effectively commercialized
2. New product targets as a percentage of overall sales are met
3. Product lifecycle management drives gross margin improvement
4. SKU rationalization metrics are met
5. Sales professionals are provided value propositions, demos, and frequently asked questions to support commercialization

Job Skills

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills to work effectively with diverse groups of people both within, and outside, of the organization
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Fluent in English and primary language used in area of responsibility and/or location
• Proven ability to problem-solve
• Experience with Salesforce and/or Power BI
• Ability to successfully commercialize new product launches
• Strong ability to build relationships with customers
• Ability to leverage customer feedback to drive business decisions

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills at all organizational levels
• Proven ability to problem solve
• Analytical mindset evidenced by ability to build and manage KPIs relative to product performance
• A minimum of 5 years progressive product management, product marketing, product design, and/or strategic marketing experience. Experience in a manufacturing environment is a plus
• Ability to travel globally as required up to 15%
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, engineering, marketing, product design, or a related field

Who is Avire?

AVIRE combines 6 market-leading brands (Rath, Janus, E-Motive, TL Jones, Microkey, and Memco) within the elevator and emergency communications industries; currently offering light curtains, area of refuge solutions, and emergency telephones / GSMs. Each brand has a strong market presence, a unique identity, a distinct product range, and a long, successful history. The group has manufacturing locations in 4 countries, R&D in 3 countries and Sales & Marketing in 11 countries and employs over 500 people globally.

Avire is part of the Halma group (www.halma.com). Halma offers very high levels of autonomy to its operating companies, while providing support when needed, with a particular focus on talent development and investment in people.

Avire is an equal opportunity employer.

See www.halma.com/our-people for more information.

If you are interested in working for a business whose primary focus is to protect and improve the lives of people around the world, you have come to the right place. We aim to be a company that does good work, and that is good to work for.

Halma employs over 6,300 people in nearly 50 subsidiary businesses based in over 20 countries. Through innovation and acquisition, we have developed a portfolio of market-leading companies within our three sectors: Safety, Medical, and Environmental & Analysis.

Benefits

• A focus on employee development
• Opportunity for hybrid work schedule
• Competitive salary
• Complete benefits package including insurance, 401K, vacation, bonus scheme and generous parental leave

How do I apply?

If you are interested in learning more about the company and this position, please send your resume to: [email protected]