Senior Product Manager

Crane Building Services & Utilities; Hitchin; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering firm based in Hitchin is seeking a professional focused on commercial management of product categories to support growth and profitability. The role involves building and maintaining product roadmaps, supporting operational planning, and leading customer engagements for market insights. Candidates should be proactive in identifying new opportunities within various markets. This position allows for strategic impact in a company with a rich history and a commitment to integrity and diversity.

Responsibilities

• Commercial management of product categories to support growth and profitability.
• Support operational planning and performance monitoring.
• Build and maintain product roadmaps with NPD delivery and P&L targets.
• Lead voice of customer engagement for market analysis.
• Identify new opportunities in existing and new markets.

Job description

Specific responsibilities include :

• Commercial management of product categories to support geographic and product line growth and profitability.
• Support operational planning, monitoring and reporting business performance targets, market analysis, and competitor analysis.
• Build and maintain product roadmaps. This requires the delivery of NPD, ownership of the required capital expenditure request, product launch, and profitability in line with P&L targets.
• Directly lead voice of customer engagement to validate competitor analysis, market sizes, customer pain points and technology trends that can be converted into business actions driving growth.
• Support the development, presentation, monitoring and execution of strategic and operational initiatives in line with planned commitments.
• Identify new opportunities for the business within existing and new markets.
• Detailed monitoring and reporting of market segmentation, customer profiles and windows to market
• As a key part of the operational planning cycle directly support the business line manager in converting strategic targets into operational targets for the year.
• Work collaboratively with commercial, supply chain, and operation team members to complete the sales inventory and operations planning process regularly in line with the planned cost of sales.
• Engage with commercial teams to understand monthly regional forecasts and product line performance.
• Identify, scope and lead the delivery of regional and customer-specific initiatives to deliver on-plan performance for product lines and regions.
• Detailed monitoring and reporting of forecasts, pricing, cost of sales for end-of-month reviews.

ABOUT US

Crane Building Services and Utilities (BS&U) is part of the Fluid Handling Division of Crane Co. founded in 1855, which is a global, multi-industry, New York Stock Exchange quoted company. We design, manufacture, package and market engineered flow control solutions for the HVAC and Utility sectors, with strong sales into key growth export markets.

The name Crane speaks of who we are, what we stand for and how our customers perceive us : A company with history and tradition, but also a company that is innovative, quality minded and one which acts with integrity and still holds to the resolution of its founder.

Crane Co. was founded on 4th July 1855 by Richard Teller Crane who made the following resolution :

"I am resolved to conduct my business in the strictest honesty and fairness; to avoid all deception and trickery; to deal fairly with both customers and competitors; to be liberal and just towards employees; and to put my whole mind upon the business."

The essence of this resolution is the business policy of Crane Co. today.

We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity is key to our success and as such we are seeking applications from candidates who will contribute their different backgrounds, cultures and experiences to our business.