Pentair is looking to solve the business problem of driving portfolio growth and achieving profit margin expectations for their Commercial & Infrastructure Flow business, specifically for clean water, vertical turbine, split case, and solids handling pump product lines.
Requirements
- Demonstrated technical aptitude and ability to manage a portfolio of engineered products/projects.
- Proven ability to analyze, interpret, and draw meaningful and accurate conclusions from large data sets.
- Demonstrated customer focused, data driven mindset with financial acumen.
Responsibilities
- Lead, oversee, and communicate all product portfolio strategic initiatives & opportunities, such as branding, line extensions, portfolio optimization, channel expansion opportunities, maintenance of current products, product obsoletion/discontinuation, pricing, and lead time/stocking strategy, across the organization while serving as the key advocate & champion for Infrastructure product lines.
- Execute strategic initiatives to successfully drive sustainable organic growth (identify, prepare, execute, and track plans to grow the business), and to achieve profit margin expectations.
- Collaborate with all cross-functional and category leadership teams (sales, finance, marketing, engineering & manufacturing operations) to establish and execute channel strategy, develop demand plans, deliver on financial targets, and participate in SIOP process.
- Partner with Operations, as well as Finance, Supply, and Engineering, to optimize product cost and customer pricing to maximize revenue and margin.
- Serve as subject matter expert (SME) for assigned product families to support internal teams, field sales, channel partners, and end-users as required, including supporting the development of training materials for the assigned product lines, and providing collateral support for specifying Engineers, such as launch kits, competitive alerts, sales communications, instruction sheets, etc.
Other
- Have earned a bachelor’s (B.A. or B.S.) degree in a relevant field.
- Have 7+ years of progressive, cross-functional experience across areas such as product management, operations, strategic marketing, finance, and/or engineering, in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
- Excellent organizational, communication, relationship-building, and project management skills; including experience coordinating multiple, time-sensitive projects.
- Demonstrated ability to be a thought-leader and presenter for key initiatives with internal and external audiences at all levels.
- 15-25% travel (including international as needed) for tradeshows, conferences, customer visits, and other business-related needs.
