Water Tech Product Lifecycle Specialist

Badger Meter; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay

Annual Bonus

Paid time off (15 days) + 11 holidays

Retirement plan contributions

Tuition reimbursement

Health, Vision, Dental coverage

EAP

Disability coverage

HSA & FSA

Job summary

Badger Meter, Milwaukee-based, seeks a Product Management Support professional to assist with lifecycle management for municipal water product lines, pricing, and collateral development.

You will partner with the Product Manager and Marketing Manager to analyze markets, collect VoC data, and respond to customer inquiries while supporting RFPs and competitive analyses. This role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college.
• 1 – 3 years’ experience in product management support role.
• Basic financial literacy; can generally understand a P&L and how product decisions impact volume, revenue and margin
• Advanced skill level in MS Word and MS Outlook
• Intermediate skill level in MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Visio

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing short and long range business plans for the product line.
• Develop an understanding of the assigned product architecture and offerings well enough to answer common customer/sales questions unaided and support RFP responses.
• Support and observe customer interviews and synthesize Voice of Customer (VoC) themes; monitor third party research sources for relevant content impacting the product line; participate in win-loss calls to understand common threads across commercial opportunity outcomes.
• Support product life cycle management as directed by the Marketing Manager predominantly via the tracking of feature release status against plans.
• Coordinate with internal partners to implement plans as directed by the Marketing Manager.
• Assist with product pricing policies based on established gross margin objectives and assist with preparation of plans for margin improvement where necessary.
• Assist in the development of marketing specifications as appropriate.
• Track competitor activity, prepare competitive analysis (ex. Battlecard tools) for assigned products and support the formulation of competitive counter strategies for new and existing products.
• Assist in the development of product promotional items and collateral including product literature, product training and product distribution plans to achieve Business Plan objectives for assigned products

Skills

MS Word

MS Outlook

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel

MS Visio

Product management

Financial literacy

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

MS Word

MS Outlook

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel

MS Visio

Job description

Badger Meter, Milwaukee-based, seeks a Product Management Support professional to assist with lifecycle management for municipal water product lines, pricing, and collateral development.

You will partner with the Product Manager and Marketing Manager to analyze markets, collect VoC data, and respond to customer inquiries while supporting RFPs and competitive analyses. This role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and data-driven decision making.