Product Line Manager, Optical Components

CommScope; Shakopee (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CommScope in Shakopee, MN seeks a Product Line Manager for Optical Components to lead the development of a new product line and expand existing offerings across key markets.

You will own product line strategy, pricing, profitability, and cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Distribution Channels, managing P&L and driving growth through market opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience leading product line strategy, pricing, profitability and marketing.
• Ability to identify growth opportunities and drive market share expansion.
• Strong cross-functional leadership across Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing and Distribution.

Responsibilities

• Manage the product life cycle and P&L for the line, including revenue and gross margin.
• Drive new product development, launches and line extensions to market.
• Collaborate with Sales, Engineering and Marketing to create proposals and collateral.
• Develop business cases, pricing strategies and market analyses.
• Lead market research to define requirements and optimize market penetration.

Skills

Business development mindset

Hunter mentality

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer engagement

Strategic market opportunities

P&L awareness

Job description

Title: Product Line Manager, Optical Components

Location: Shakopee, Minnesota, United States

In our ‘always on’ world, we believe it’s essential to have a genuine connection with the work you do.

At the furthest frontiers of innovation, CommScope Data Center Solutions is committed to helping our partners and customers think bigger, build better and evolve smarter in their data center, data center interconnect, fiber entrance & service provider connectivity strategies. As the collaborative, go-to authority for high-density, low-latency fiber-optic infrastructure, CommScope Data Center Solutions helps the world’s networks scale up, scale out and scale across.

With the global manufacturing capacity to meet customers’ ambitious growth, our solutions help conquer network complexity, accelerate deployments, and deliver long-term evolutionary performance. Together, we help operators stay ahead of evolving AI applications and increasing demands.

CommScope is recruiting a Product Line Manager for our Passive Optical Devices Business across service provider, hyperscale, enterprise and data center markets.

We are looking for an industry leader with a strong business development mindset and a hunter mentality who actively seeks new opportunities, challenges conventional thinking, creates market momentum, and drives profitable growth. This individual should be equally comfortable engaging customers, influencing strategy, identifying acquisition or partnership opportunities, and building the business beyond its current footprint.

How You’ll Help Us Connect the World

The position is responsible for developing a new product line into a profitable product line, or expansion of existing products into new regions and/or major customer through PLM team/s. Strong emphasis on bringing new products and line extensions to market but also has overall product line management responsibility. Responsibilities include product line strategy, new product development, pricing, profitability, and marketing. In addition to classic product management functions, individuals will successfully commercially manage new products and collaborate with the CommScope Broadband business. Position has cross-functional responsibility working with Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Distribution Channels. Recruit, select, manage and develop employees. Determines what information is needed and conducts research analysis and market research to define new product requirements. Analyzes sales and other financial data to derive information vital to influence/support managerial decisions concerning market penetration, product modification, and market expansion for new products and proposes recommendations as appropriate.

• Manage the product life cycle. Accountability for the product lines P&L, including revenue attainment, gross margin and operating income. Supports sales and marketing efforts by leading research of market opportunities and competitors with existing product line in assigned markets. Manage and develop sales and marketing presentations where additional technical expertise is required on specific solutions, applications, architectures, or assigned markets. Responsible for providing expertise and maintaining product evaluations on competitive product offers and acts as main customer contact on issues related to the product.
• Through close contact with target market and customers, responsible for new product visioning and idea generation. Attends trade shows, reviews market / trade publications and interfaces with sales workforce. Participates in technology and product roadmap development. Develops business cases for new product development including financial evaluations (RR, ROI, OPP, Cost), competitive and market analyses, customer needs, critical success factors, sales justifications, and other business case components. Defines target markets / customers and product positioning.
• Develops product definition including price, cost and performance objectives, reliability and functional features, manufacturability, and life cycle forecasts. Identifies and selects sales channels to distribute products to targeted markets / customers. Develops new production introduction plan.
• Responsible for the launch of new products. Initiates and participates in the development of all marketing collateral material. Establishes sales promotions and special incentive programs. Prepares technical databases for proposal generation. Develops and conducts product, market and application training. Ensures successful transition to manufacturing. Supports sales through joint sales calls. Conducts product review meetings. Establishes and monitors product introduction budget.
• Responsible for profit and loss (P&L), evaluating, recommending and initiating cost reductions, discount analyses and inventory levels. Develops and evaluates opportunities for new products and / or line extensions. Identifies new target markets and related strategies.

Technical Expertise

• Deep understanding of passive optical networking technologies and applications, including:
• DWDM/CWDM solutions
• WDM filters
• Optical splitters
• Couplers
• TAPs
• Coexistence modules
• PON architectures and deployments

Business Leadership

• Product Line Management, portfolio management, or business development experience within optical networking, broadband, telecommunications, or related markets.
• Demonstrated ability to identify growth opportunities, develop strategic initiatives, and drive market share expansion.
• Experience managing product lifecycles, pricing, forecasting, and investment priorities.
• Strong business development mindset with a focus on creating new opportunities, expanding customer relationships, and identifying adjacent markets for growth.

Customer & Market Engagement

• Direct experience working with Tier 1 service providers, cloud providers, hyperscalers, enterprise customers, or the fiber broadband ecosystem.
• Strong commercial orientation with the ability to translate market insights and customer requirements into profitable growth strategies.
• Proven ability to influence customers, cross-functional teams, and senior leadership.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for an industry leader with a strong business development mindset and a hunter mentality who actively seeks new opportunities, challenges conventional thinking, creates market momentum, and drives profitable growth. This individual should be equally comfortable engaging customers, influencing strategy, identifying acquisition or partnership opportunities, and building the business beyond its current footprint.

Why CommScope

CommScope is on a quest to deliver connectivity that empowers how we live, work, and learn. Our employees push the boundaries of communications technology that enables game-changing discoveries like 5G, the Internet of Things, and gigabit speeds for everyone, everywhere. With our unmatched expertise in copper, fiber, and wireless infrastructure, our global clients rely on us to outperform today and be ready for the needs of tomorrow.

If you want to grow your career alongside bright, passionate, and caring people who strive to create what's next…..come connect to your future at CommScope.

CommScope is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO), including people with disabilities and veterans. If you are seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process, please contact us to submit your request at [e-mail]. You can also learn more about CommScope’s accommodation process and EEO policy at https://jobs.commscope.com