Senior Product Manager – Refrigeration Strategy & Growth

Panasonic Avionics Corporation; Bridgeton (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

Voluntary Benefits

Hussmann Retirement Savings & 401k

Job summary

Hussmann in the St. Louis, MO area seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead marketing and business strategy for Self-Contained refrigeration products within the Core and Distributed portfolio.

You will shape product strategy, annual BP, and long-range plans while guiding development and lifecycle management across the portfolio. The role requires collaboration with sales, engineering, finance, and manufacturing to build strong business cases, drive profitability targets, and accelerate growth

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, marketing or business administration is required; MBA is preferred.
• 8 years of relevant marketing experience within durable goods companies.
• 5 years in product leadership/management.
• Experience supporting product & marketing management, new product development and strategy activities.
• Strong business and financial acumen including the ability to build business cases.
• Strong IT acumen to incorporate new tools for enhanced product profitability.
• Must understand product and competitor analyses.
• Must be able to travel up to 25% - occasional international travel.
• Experience with refrigeration products preferred.
• Spanish language ability preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop multi-year product roadmap for portfolio of air-cooled and water-cooled self-contained products.
• Lead the marketing and business planning process for the identified products.
• Work cross-functionally with sales, engineering, manufacturing, finance, etc. to develop business cases and set profitability expectations, define objectives and short- and mid-range action plans for growth of the products within this portfolio.
• Oversee the commercialization activities (forecasting, pricing, promotion, marketing communications, packaging, collateral materials, training, product management, etc.).
• Assess and evaluate the channels of distribution to devise channel marketing strategies.
• Enhance and build brand strength to capitalize and leverage the company’s competitive advantage.
• Develop and train market and sales team personnel on the product.
• Continuously review performance of all aspects of the product group compared to plans and objectives.
• Establish strong communication and partnering relationships between marketing and the sales organization.
• Assure market intelligence is gathered and analyzed including customer needs, market trends, competition, and opportunities.
• Ensure timely adjustments to changing markets and competitive conditions.
• Provide marketing, sales, and business management direction to internal units, including allocation of resources.
• Frequent contact with sales, manufacturing, engineering, logistics, purchasing, and finance is expected.
• Identify cost savings opportunities and direct value analysis/value enhancement programs.

Skills

Product leadership

Marketing strategy

Financial acumen

Market analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Spanish (preferred)

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/marketing/business administration

MBA (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Hussmann in the St. Louis, MO area seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead marketing and business strategy for Self-Contained refrigeration products within the Core and Distributed portfolio.

You will shape product strategy, annual BP, and long-range plans while guiding development and lifecycle management across the portfolio. The role requires collaboration with sales, engineering, finance, and manufacturing to build strong business cases, drive profitability targets, and accelerate growth