Product Manager, Respiratory

CAIRE Inc.; Ball Ground (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CAIRE Inc. in Ball Ground, GA is seeking an experienced Product Manager to own the product lifecycle from concept to end of life. You will lead cross-functional teams across Sales, Engineering, Operations, Regulatory, and Finance to shape strategy, pricing, launches, and training.

A hardware background is preferred and travel up to 20% is expected. The role requires 5+ years in product management, strong analytics (Power BI, Excel, Salesforce), and excellent communication to drive market

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, engineering, business or management.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated successful product management experience.
• Background in hardware products is preferred.
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership and influence across functions.

Responsibilities

• Own full life-cycle management from development to end of life, including VOC, strategy, market opportunity and value propositions.
• Drive roadmap for product development and OEMs; conduct regular roadmap reviews with stakeholders.
• Lead cross-functional teams to enable product enhancements and new development projects.
• Develop and deliver marketing content to support the product development process.
• Define user needs and align business and technical strategies.
• Lead product launches, pricing, positioning, and training with sales/marketing.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Data analysis

Customer focus

SalesForce

Power BI

Excel

Strong verbal & written communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, engineering, business or management

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Salesforce

Job description

Are you ready to steer innovation and shape the future of our respiratory products? We are on the hunt for a dynamic and visionary Product Manager to join our talented team. Imagine a role where you are at the epicenter of creativity, strategy, and execution, collaborating seamlessly with Sales, Engineering, Operations, Regulatory, and Finance teams.

In this pivotal position, you will inspire cross-functional teams to create and maintain an innovative and profitable product portfolio. Your strategic decisions will be fueled by deep, data-driven insights and a profound understanding of the market landscape, customer needs, and competitive dynamics. If you are passionate about driving innovation and making a tangible impact, we want you on our team to help us reach new heights!

We are seeking to fill this position in our Ball Ground, GA office with a minimum of 3 days in the office per week.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Responsible for full life-cycle management of products from new product development to end of life, including voice of the customer, setting strategy, market opportunity, positioning and value propositions.
• Drive the product roadmap for product development and OEMs. Lead regular product road-map reviews with key stakeholders.
• Work closely in a cross-functional team to shepherd product enhancement and new product development efforts, as well as OEM projects.
• Provide marketing deliverables to the product development process.
• Define user needs and product requirements and align business and technical strategies.
• Responsible for product launches, pricing & positioning, launch training, sales & marketing tool kit development in collaboration with Downstream Marketing.
• Drive product line profitability through proactive work with sales, engineering, operations and finance.
• Develop and maintain business cases for respiratory projects.
• Develop sales training material for external customers, distributors and internal sales team members.
• Maintain high level of application knowledge by continually improving knowledge and know-how related to respiratory products.
• Monitor sales and margin results and track and recommend appropriate actions
• Visit customers and conduct market research to validate marketing requirements.
• Provide on-going product expertise to operations and sales teams.
• Strong customer facing skills including being comfortable presenting to large audiences.

Competencies/Success Factors

• Business or Job-Specific Knowledge
• Organizational Savvy
• Personal Energy / Enthusiasm
• Autonomy / Self-Direction
• E.Q.
• Customer Focus
• Leadership

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel objects, tools or controls and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Travel

Ability to travel up to approximately 20%, including internationally.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, engineering, business or management
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated successful experience in product management, new product development and product launch
• The desired candidate will have a background that includes hardware products
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership abilities and capability to lead through influence
• Experience in change management / process improvement
• Demonstrated business planning skills
• Strong Data Analysis skills (Power BI, Excel and Sales Force)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Education and Experience

• Experience in medical devices is a plus.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

None required for this position.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

CAIRE is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or membership in any other class protected by federal, state, or local law.