Senior Manager- Enterprise Product Development, Humanoids & Robotics

Timken; North Canton (OH); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Global team

Job summary

Timken is seeking a Marketing Manager/Project Manager to shape product roadmaps and align cross-functional teams across platforms and businesses. You will identify gaps, coordinate resources, and drive multi-project pipelines to ensure timely delivery and business impact.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, strong communication, and collaboration with Strategic Marketing and leadership to achieve enterprise product development goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with 10+ years of relevant experience preferred.
• Masters in Business or Engineering preferred.
• Proven ability to manage a robust product development pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Work with Strategic Marketing to keep product roadmaps relevant for key verticals.
• Identify enterprise technical requirements and gaps to guide planning and partnerships.
• Scope and initiate cross-platform product and system development projects with leadership alignment.
• Drive cross-functional project plans to timelines and budgets through hand-off points.

Skills

Project management

Strategic thinking

Effective communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s in Business or Engineering

Tools

MS Project

Job description

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What Timken makes possible begins with you.
Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next.

A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world— improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries, and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion.

Work closely with Strategic Marketing, Platforms & Businesses leadership within the humanoid and robotics key vertical to strategically create, update and manage the new product roadmap. Ensure there is a healthy pipeline of products in development and that individual business’ project timelines align to the enterprise system level timelines. Work across Platforms and Businesses leadership to gain support on resource allocation and project priority as required to achieve enterprise level (system) product development objectives.

• Work with Strategic Marketing to ensure product road maps are relevant and updated for the key verticals inside their responsibility.
• Identify enterprise technical requirements and technology gaps inside their verticals and maintain this list to support technical resource planning / development as well as M&A lists. Help find external technology partners and affiliations that can help address the known gaps.
• Scope and initiate product and system development projects that are larger and cross platform in support of the road maps. Work with enterprise and platform leaders on priorities and resources for the projects.
• Drive the full cross functional project plan to the timeline and budget until the predefined hand off points, at which time the platform or business takes over. Support this transition and ensure the day-to-day business processes are working appropriately for future product line extensions.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably mechanical with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Masters in Business or Engineering prefered.
• Project portfolio management – Ability to maintain a robust and healthy pipeline of new products and cost reductions to existing products to stay ahead of market needs.
• Project management – Ability to stay on schedule and elevate potential gaps with a suggested course of action.
• Effective Communication – Communicate and gain alignment across leadership and working levels to achieve the needs of the key vertical.
• Strategic Thinking – Clearly think at a high level to understand the current situation, define the desired end state and map a course of action that will enable achievement.

All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Timken is a global technology leader in engineered bearings and industrial motion. Our expanding portfolio of next-generation solutions helps customers around the world improve efficiency, solve their toughest challenges, and push the boundaries of performance. We employ 19,000 people globally, operate from 45 countries, and posted $4.6 billion in sales in 2025.
We have been recognized as one of America's Most Responsible Companies 6x by Newsweek and one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® 15x by Ethisphere.

Why Choose Timken?

• Over a century of knowledge and innovation
  
• A culture of top performance
  
• Products that contribute to a sustainable world
  
• A conviction to improve communities around us
  
• Competitive salary and benefits
  

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