Associate Product Manager
Garden Grove, CA - USA
Job Summary
Help grow a safer cleaner healthier future for everyone every day.
The Associate Product Manager operates at the commercial and technical intersection of Sensorexs product portfolio: building the product roadmap defining product requirements maintaining technical product documentation developing technical training for internal and external audiences and supporting pricing strategy. This role reports to the Vice President of Sales and Marketing and partners closely with Engineering Sales Manufacturing Finance and Customer Service to make sure Sensorexs products are well-specified well-documented and well-understood by the people selling and supporting them and priced to win in the market.
This is a hands-on detail-oriented role for someone who wants to build a career within a technical engineered-products environment. The candidate will also play a role in defining value propositions features and benefits for marketing our products and will co-develop market launch plans for new products. The ideal candidate is comfortable reading a datasheet sitting in on a customer application call and pulling together a pricing analysis all in the same week. Over time this role can prepare someone for many optional career paths.
Product Roadmap & Requirements
- Build and maintain the product roadmap incorporating customer feedback sales input and competitive and market trends.
- Gather and synthesize Voice of Customer (VOC) input from Sales Customer Service and direct customer conversations to identify unmet needs and product improvement opportunities.
- Translate customer and market requirements into clear well-organized marketing requirement documents (MRDs) for stage-gated new product development (NPD).
- Coordinate sample and beta testing with customer partners and commercial readiness activities to support new product development and product launches.
- Track product performance and lifecycle status across the portfolio flagging risks gaps or opportunities to expand or contract the portfolio.
Technical Product Documentation
- Work with technical support and marketing and communications colleagues to assure the accuracy currency and quality of product documentation including specification sheets datasheets instruction manuals installation guides and application notes.
- Work with Engineering to ensure new and revised products are accompanied by complete accurate and professionally presented documentation before market release.
- Maintain documentation standards and ensure consistency in technical language specification format and regulatory or compliance references across product literature.
Technical Product Training
- Develop and deliver technical product training for Sales Customer Service and the distributor network so that customer-facing teams can confidently represent Sensorexs product line.
- Build training materials and internal reference guides (selection guides comparison matrices FAQs) that translate technical product detail into practical sales-ready knowledge.
- Partner with technical subject matter experts to keep training content current as products and applications evolve.
Pricing Strategy
- Support development and maintenance of pricing for the portfolio balancing competitiveness margin targets and perceived customer value.
- Conduct competitive price benchmarking and analyze the impact of pricing changes on volume margin and revenue.
- Recommend pricing updates discount structures and price-list that are supported by data and a market-based rationale.
- Bachelors degree or higher in Chemistry Engineering Business or a related field.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn customer market and pricing data into clear recommendations.
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to produce clear well-organized technical documentation and training content.
- Comfortable working cross-functionally across the entire organization.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with the ability to manage several workstreams at once.
- 13 years of experience in product management technical sales applications engineering or a related technical/commercial role.
- Exposure to water quality instrumentation sensors or other technical/engineered products.
- Experience reading and interpreting technical specifications wiring diagrams or instrument communication protocols (4-20mA Modbus/RS-485).
- Familiarity with pricing analysis or competitive benchmarking.
- Experience creating training materials or technical documentation for internal or external audiences.
- Competitive base salary: $80000$90000
- Competitive benefits package including 401(k)
- Annual bonuses based on profit growth of the company
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About Company
Our purpose is to grow a safer, cleaner, healthier future for everyone, every day. Halma is a global Group of life-saving technology companies. Our companies provide innovative solutions to many of the key problems facing the world today. Our Sectors: Safety technologies that ... View more