Senior Product Manager, Data Center Applications

Description:

The Senior Product Manager -Data Center Applications role will be responsible for building a winning product strategy to drive long term advantage in Flukes core marketplace as well as the high growth data center and enterprise IT addition to defining business models to support successful new product launches to growth of the business this subject matter expert will also be responsible for continuously improving business financial health of the product line and monitoring competitive dynamics.

The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of data center workflows operations and the business environment with a customer-centric mindset and strong strategic thinking skills. Experience required: 10 Years in a Product Management or Marketing role at least 5 of the most recent years must be in the Data Center or Cloud Infrastructure space.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define strategy and execution plan for the product portfolio and life cycle from inception through commercialization to maturity and own key performance metrics including sales units margin and core focus on software-enabled data center and enterprise IT solutions to drive recurring revenue growth.
• Define and execute a compelling global product/software vision and roadmap to deliver sustained product leadership over the short medium and long-term using NPIs (new product introductions) sustainment of existing products and EOL (end of life).
• Drive the development of new products while working in collaboration with Engineering Operations Marketing & Sales.
• Gain deep understanding of customer experience competitive dynamic market trends and workflows through customer research and market work.
• Identify critical trends and product leadership opportunities in a competitive landscape. (Including pricing industry structure technology/product positioning and advantage)
• Create and deploy pricing warranty product life cycle (EOL) policies.
• Work closely with customers with a consultative engagement mindset to understand unique needs and guide commercial & technical teams to co-develop effective solutions.
• Play an active role in supporting business development partnership technology and M&A activities.
• Bring thought leadership internally and externally including delivering presentations on performance strategy and customer insights to executive leadership.

Qualifications:

Strong critical thinking project management dynamic organizational and analytical skills with ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously is a requirement. The successful candidate is a self-starter highly motivated analytical attentive to detail and has experience with working successfully in matrix organizations. Additionally strong candidates will have a passion to understand customers experience pain and delight with our products as well as competitive products.

• Customer obsessed Experience researching and learning about customers experience via multiple methods (interviews surveys focus groups etc.)
• Strategic must be able to effectively balance and align long and short-term priorities for the product line making trade off recommendations and adjusting to changing market dynamics
• Leadership - must be able to lead and influence inter-company and cross-functional teams to meet goals and objectives.
• Critical thinking must be a strategic thinker who can effectively collect and synthesize market intelligence into an actionable & winning strategy while agilely pivoting as the situation requires.
• Results Oriented must be able to prioritize and execute to deliver measurable results.
• Communication - must be able to effectively and concisely communicate complex information across all levels of the organization and across functional boundaries.
• Masters of Business Administration (MBA) preferred or BS/BA equivalent experience
• 10 Years experience in a Product Management or Marketing role 5 of which must be in the Data Center or Cloud Infrastructure space
• Knowledge and subject matter expertise in data center industrial and/or enterprise communication network markets is required
• Experience with Lean Portfolio Management a plus
• Ability to travel including internationally up to 25% of the time