Regional Product Manager

georgfischer; Apple Valley (MN); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class health benefits

PTO + Safe and Sick Time

Job summary

Uponor is seeking a Regional Product Manager in Minnesota to own the regional portfolio and manage the full product lifecycle, developing strategies aligned with global objectives and leveraging market insights to drive growth. You will collaborate with Global Product Management and key functions to optimize revenue and portfolio performance across North America.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, pricing strategy, and new product development, with periodic onsite work at our Apple

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of progressive experience in Product Management, Product Marketing, Category Management, Engineering, or Industrial Sales.
• Experience managing technical product portfolios in a B2B manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting product launches and product lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Own the regional product portfolio and manage the full product lifecycle.
• Develop regional product strategies aligned with global category objectives.
• Identify growth opportunities through customer insights, competitive intelligence, and market analysis.
• Recommend portfolio expansion, rationalization, and product enhancements.
• Develop and support business cases for new products and product enhancements.
• Provide North American market input into the global product roadmap.
• Monitor product sales, margin, profitability, pricing, warranty trends, inventory performance, and market share.
• Analyze financial and operational performance to identify opportunities and risks.
• Develop pricing recommendations and support execution of pricing strategies.
• Drive actions to improve revenue, profitability, and overall portfolio performance.
• Serve as the Voice of the Customer for assigned product categories.
• Gather customer and market insights through customer visits, field observations, distributor engagement, and other VOC activities.
• Monitor industry trends, codes and standards, competitive activity, and emerging technologies.
• Translate customer and market insights into product improvements and future innovation opportunities.
• Partner with Global Product Management to align regional priorities with long-term product strategies.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, Product Marketing, Finance, and Customer Service to advance product and business priorities.
• Support new product development through the Stage Gate process.
• Coordinate cross-functional readiness for successful product launches.
• Influence stakeholders and drive initiatives without direct authority.
• Maintain product performance dashboards and portfolio reporting.
• Support business planning, forecasting, and portfolio performance reviews.
• Develop product documentation and business recommendations to support decision-making.
• Participate in strategic planning initiatives across the product organization.

Skills

Product Management

Product Marketing

Category Management

Engineering

Industrial Sales

Job description

The Regional Product Manager is responsible for managing the strategy, performance, and lifecycle of assigned product categories within the North American market. This role uses customer and market insights, business performance data, and cross-functional collaboration to identify growth opportunities, optimize the product portfolio, and support new product development and launches.

Partners with Global Product Management and key business functions to ensure regional priorities are aligned with global product strategies while driving revenue, profitability, and long-term portfolio performance.

This role is considered a HYBRID position with periodic onsite work at our headquarters in Apple Valley, Minnesota.

What will you be doing?

Product Strategy & Portfolio Management

• Own the regional product portfolio and manage the full product lifecycle.
• Develop regional product strategies aligned with global category objectives.
• Identify growth opportunities through customer insights, competitive intelligence, and market analysis.
• Recommend portfolio expansion, rationalization, and product enhancements.
• Develop and support business cases for new products and product enhancements.
• Provide North American market input into the global product roadmap.

Commercial Performance & Financial Ownership

• Monitor product sales, margin, profitability, pricing, warranty trends, inventory performance, and market share.
• Analyze financial and operational performance to identify opportunities and risks.
• Develop pricing recommendations and support execution of pricing strategies.
• Drive actions to improve revenue, profitability, and overall portfolio performance.

Customer & Market Intelligence

• Serve as the Voice of the Customer for assigned product categories.
• Gather customer and market insights through customer visits, field observations, distributor engagement, and other VOC activities.
• Monitor industry trends, codes and standards, competitive activity, and emerging technologies.
• Translate customer and market insights into product improvements and future innovation opportunities.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner with Global Product Management to align regional priorities with long-term product strategies.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, Product Marketing, Finance, and Customer Service to advance product and business priorities.
• Support new product development through the Stage Gate process.
• Coordinate cross-functional readiness for successful product launches.
• Influence stakeholders and drive initiatives without direct authority.

Business Planning & Product Support

• Maintain product performance dashboards and portfolio reporting.
• Support business planning, forecasting, and portfolio performance reviews.
• Develop product documentation and business recommendations to support decision-making.
• Participate in strategic planning initiatives across the product organization.

What will you need?

• 5-10 years of progressive experience in Product Management, Product Marketing, Category Management, Engineering, or Industrial Sales.
• Experience managing technical product portfolios in a B2B manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting product launches and product lifecycle management.
• Building products, plumbing, HVAC, hydronics, mechanical systems, or industrial manufacturing experience preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 20% annually

What will you get?

• Best-in-class health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• 160 hours paid time off (combination of PTO and Employee Safe and Sick Time accruals- MN Based Employees)
• For more information: https://www.uponorcareers.com/en-us/employee-benefits

Disclaimers

Applicable to US job postings only (not Canada): The expected compensation range for this position is $88,298-$132,447/year. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. Internal equity among current employees will also be considered. Please note that this range represents the full base salary wage for the role and hiring at or near the top of the range is uncommon to ensure room for future pay advancement.

Uponor is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, disability, marital status, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. #LI-JD1

Uponor is the Official Plumbing, Infrastructure and Building Solutions Partner of the Minnesota Twins