Product manager

Eaton - Burton on the Wolds This role is open to candidates based in the UK - preference is close to our Burton On The Wolds site. As a key hub within Eaton's EMEA organisation, our site reports into Germany and drives innovation for our advanced fusing and switching product line. This is where big ideas turn into real-world solutions - powered by Product Line Leadership, cutting-edge R&D, and a state-of-the-art Test Laboratory that pushes performance to the next level. What you'll do: Responsible for assisting the development and implementation of strategic product plans for a range of assigned product lines. Evaluates initial customer product requests and leads product development resources, helping to co-ordinate other functional areas of the business as necessary to achieve growth, market share, cost, and profitability and volume expectations on key product projects. Leads the product launch process for the assigned product lines, assessing competitive offerings. Evaluates and helps prioritise plant, custom engineering, cost reduction and process improvement opportunities. - Evaluation of product line extension or modification requests from sales team, or external customers. Utilize a formalized process that gives quantifiable reasons to implement or reject the extension. Preparation and presentation of a business proposal for acceptable projects that includes product specification, target cost and average sell price. - Responsible for meeting profitability, volume and customer service targets. - Responsible for introducing, on schedule and on budget, competitive products that meet or exceed market expectations and making promotion, product and channel recommendations. - Evaluation of product line cost reduction, modification, and process improvement recommendations from the manufacturing team for market acceptability. This includes regular documented meetings with the teams that give clear direction and priority based on a commercial perspective. - Participation as a key member of a product development team through the concept, development, implementation and market introduction for the product or product line utilizing Eatons EBS / formal processes. - Responsibility for product literature content that includes features, benefits and performance data. This includes printed and electronic formats. Monitor these areas as part of product life cycle management. - Responsibility for sustaining core product lines to adapt to market change or to penetrate new markets and address competitive offerings. This includes recommending programs and promotional activities to strengthen market position for sustained product lines. - The Product Manager must work closely with the Market and Geography Managers to balance competing business needs. - Create, develop and maintain a five-year product plan (road map) on key products as agreed upon with the Product Management and Marketing Manager. Coordinate product planning inputs for strategic and business planning. - Responsibility for forecast information, part level, resource and financial in respect of Eaton sales & operational planning product management module (SIOP PM module), for applicable product lines for projects contributing toward innovation and vitality targets. - Responsibility for coordinating price and margin objectives with the product-pricing group. Skills: - Familiar with financial measurements of an investment opportunity and NPD process. - General understanding of manufacturing technologies and relies on manufacturing engineering to stay abreast of the latest technologies. - Understanding of markets and customers and works with the sales team to build and maintain this intelligence. - Needs to have an overview of agency standards, code requirements, industry practices and present product performance capabilities and an ability to lead and influence a cross functional team. Qualifications: Degree (Commercial or Engineering) 1 - 5 years in marketing or engineering function What We Offer Competitive compensation and benefits package Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team We make your aspirations matter - Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term - not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University. We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people's lives and the environment through power management technologies. We make your wellbeing matter - We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen. \LI-JG1