Senior Product Manager

If you are a product and marketing professional looking for an opportunity to grow Emerson has an exciting opportunity for you! Based in our St. Louis MO location the Product Manager coordinates the management of the entire product life cycle and drives innovative and strategic direction for the assigned product lines. The candidate will report to the Director of New Product Development working cross-functionally to develop and launch new products. This includes idea generation product discovery customer and market need analysis project management customer support and supervising market acceptance of launched products.

Ready to make your mark and embark on an exciting journey with us We cant wait to hear from you!

In this Role Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Position the product portfolios to win in the marketplace by assessing portfolio financial health supervising market trends and competitive activity and understanding existing portfolio gap and opportunities.
• Conduct customer market and product discovery and analysis for roadmap projects for assigned areas.
• Work with the sales team and customers to reflect the voice of customers understand needs and align on business cases and prioritization.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to understand technology capabilities trends design and ergonomics to advance the category. You will work collectively to ideate solutions and demonstrate early-stage prototypes for internal customer and market feedback.
• Lead new product development projects in the assigned product areas leading global cross-functional and collaborative teams to complete projects including reporting on key project achievements ensuring project accountability by assigned individuals and departments and performing within a stage gate process and Emerson management process.
• Collaborate with sales teams on customer focused product portfolios for differentiated assortments.
• Develop detailed product category understanding to be viewed as knowledgeable on customer product and segment expert including serving as the point of contact for customer and channel needs.

Who You Are: You optimally communicate in various settings: one-on-one small and large groups or among diverse styles and position levels. You push yourself and help others achieve results. You deal constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes. You set objectives to align with broader organizational goals. You foster teamwork allowing others across the organization to achieve shared objectives. You establish and maintain effective customer relationships. You encourage diverse thinking to promote and nurture innovation.

For This Role You Will Need:

• Bachelors degree in marketing engineering finance or an equivalent with 5 years relevant experience or Masters Degree in relevant business field with 3 years relevant experience.
• Successfully brought new products to market for retail consumers.
• Proven effective team leadership working cross-functionally.
• Ability to navigate the organization collaborating effectively with multiple collaborators independently and in teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Highly self-motivated with proven initiative to drive projects and incremental opportunities.
• Displays analytical abilities and experience creating and using quantitative analysis spreadsheet/database tools to assist in planning and decision making.
• Participated in product discovery designing and implementing customer touch points or research to get product and user insights.
• Legal Authorization to work in the United StatesSponsorship will not be provided for this role.
  

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

• Demonstrated experience in financial modeling and business case development.
• Leadership of product and/or customer discovery and research that identify user needs and new product requirements.
• Previously supported new product development process through leading projects or direct participation in supporting functions to deliver products to market.
• Project management software experience.
  

Our Culture & Commitment to You:

At Emerson we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued respected and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation collaboration and diverse perspectivesbecause we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship training or leadership opportunities we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.

We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing flexible competitive benefits plans to meet you and your familys physical mental financial and social needs. We provide a variety of medical insurance plans with dental and vision coverage Employee Assistance Program 401(k) tuition reimbursement employee resource groups recognition and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal) vacation and holiday leave.

Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E F-1 (including those with OPT or CPT) H-1 H-2 L-1 B J or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future are not eligible.

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