What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at Wabash?
About the Role:
As a Product Manager, you are responsible for Product Ownership, customer advocacy, strategic alignment, and single point orchestration of a visionary product strategy. You will plan, manage, and support a portfolio of products and solutions.
Your Responsibilities:
At Wabash, we pride ourselves on being empowering, and there are some things we feel very strongly about:
Affirmative Action/EEO Statement:
Wabash is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for its associates and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, or other protected class or activity under federal, state, or local law. All employment decisions must be based on neutral, legitimate criteria. All employment policies and rules shall be applied equally to similarly situated associates.
As a Product Manager, you are responsible for Product Ownership, customer advocacy, strategic alignment, and single point orchestration of a visionary product strategy. You will plan, manage, and support a portfolio of products and solutions.
Your Responsibilities:
- Support the selling process, gather the voice of the customer, and translate insights into a tangible product strategy
- Develop and maintain product roadmaps, in alignment with corporate strategy, business plans, market and customer assessments to fully leverage customer value creation opportunities.
- Utilize product roadmaps to prioritize resource allocation in the execution of product strategy
- Oversee the developing and managing of new product idea funnels
- Understand and articulate the alignment of Customer problems, company capabilities and technology solutions
- Assist and create go-to-market programs that align with the buying process
- Support commercial organization with market and product expertise
- Seek opportunities to enhance our value proposition, product and service coverage, capabilities, and speed to market
- Develop tools and processes that promote high levels of open communication, critical thinking, and accountability throughout the enterprise.
- Other duties as assigned
- Bachelor's Degree (Preferred Major: Engineering, Finance or other technical or business major)
- 5-10 years of experience in a B2B or B2C Product Development environment
- At least 7 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment
- Knowledge in operational level financial management and decision making
- Familiarity with value proposition design, market definition, and segmentation
- Six Sigma (Green Belt, Black Belt or Master Black Belt) Certification preferred
- Master's Degree (Degree Desired: MS or MBA) preferred
At Wabash, we pride ourselves on being empowering, and there are some things we feel very strongly about:
- Embrace Diversity and Inclusion -- Solicit and respect the input of others, celebrate differences, and strive for transparency and inclusiveness
- Seek to Listen -- Actively listen to reach the best solution and make the strongest decisions
- Always Learn -- Strive to improve; do not quit or settle for the status quo
- Be Authentic -- Demonstrate honesty, incredible energy, and grit in everything you do
- Win Together -- Collaborate, seek alignment, and excel at cross-group communication to success as one team and One Wabash
Affirmative Action/EEO Statement:
Wabash is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for its associates and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, or other protected class or activity under federal, state, or local law. All employment decisions must be based on neutral, legitimate criteria. All employment policies and rules shall be applied equally to similarly situated associates.
