Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager (Burton on the Wolds, Leicestershire)

We are more than just a power management company, we are committed to inclusion, diversity, and sustainability. You will be part of a global team committed to delivering on our brand promise: "Make what matters work" We pride ourselves on building a culture that reflects our shared goals, beliefs, and attitudes.

We are ethical - We are passionate - We are responsible - We are efficient - We are transparent - We are learning. We are EATON!

What you'll do:

You will beresponsible for the development and implementation of strategic product plans for a range of assigned product lines, in this instance LV, UL and MV, and acts as the "general manager", with full P&L accountability for all activity associated with those product lines including technical support and custom solution requests. The measure of success is implementation of the plan. Evaluates customer product requests. Leads product development resources and co-ordinates 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. Assess competitive product offerings. Evaluates and helps prioritize 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
• Ensure that Field Application Engineers plan and deliver a technical support programme of training for employees and customers in addition to supporting tenders and supporting commercial teams.
• 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 Eaton's 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 Cooper Industries 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

• The minimum requirements for this position are a degree in Marketing, Business, and/or Engineering, and relevant years prior experience in sales of fuses and fuse gear, marketing, application engineering or product engineering, or relevant years' experience in a sales or marketing capacity with an electrical or electronic manufacturer.

• 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.