Industrial Product Manager
Location:
Chicago, ILA global industrial manufacturing organization is seeking an Industrial Product Manager to drive the strategy, growth, and profitability of an engineered electrical product portfolio. This role works closely with engineering, sales, operations, marketing, and customers to translate market needs into product direction and commercial results. This role is focused on physical, engineered electrical products. Candidates should have product management experience with electrical/electromechanical components, connectivity products, industrial electronics, power products, automation components, or similar engineered hardware. This is not a software, SaaS, digital-product, or IT product management role. The ideal candidate combines technical product knowledge with strong commercial judgment and is comfortable independently owning a product line from strategy through execution.
What You’ll Do:
Own product strategy, roadmap, positioning, and lifecycle for an engineered electrical product portfolio.
Drive pricing strategy, margin improvement, profitability, and overall commercial performance.
Identify new product and market opportunities through customer feedback, competitive intelligence, market analysis, and product performance data.
Partner closely with engineering on new product development, product improvements, technical requirements, and product priorities.
Work with sales and customers to understand applications, identify opportunities, support product adoption, and strengthen market positioning.
Develop and execute strategies across direct customers, distributors, and other channel partners.
Monitor orders, demand, pricing, margins, inventory, and product performance to identify opportunities and address issues.
Partner with marketing and sales on product launches, training, sales enablement, promotions, and market-development initiatives.
Make informed product and commercial decisions by balancing customer requirements, technical considerations, profitability, and broader business priorities.
Independently drive product decisions and cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution.
What You’ll Bring:- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related discipline preferred.
- Product management experience within industrial manufacturing or engineered physical products.
- Direct experience with electrical/electromechanical components, connectivity or interconnect products, industrial electronics, power products, automation components, or closely related engineered hardware.
- Experience owning pricing, margins/profitability, product lifecycle, and portfolio performance.
- Demonstrated experience partnering directly with engineering on technically complex physical products.
- Experience translating customer and market requirements into product strategy, product improvements, and new-product opportunities.
- Experience supporting industrial customers and/or distribution or channel partners.
- Strong technical and commercial judgment with the ability to make decisions involving customer needs, product capabilities, competitive positioning, and profitability.
- Demonstrated ability to independently own and drive a product line while influencing across engineering, sales, operations, marketing, and other functions.
- Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
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