Product Manager

Company Overview:
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone

Role Summary: The Product Leader will oversee and lead all product management activities for an assigned product, including associated accessories and aftermarket worldwide. The Product Leader will define the product roadmap and execute strategies and tactics to drive increased revenue, market share and profitability for these products within the target markets In so doing, the Product Leader will be responsible for coordinating the efforts of multiple product management, sales / commercial operations, Engineering/R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain resources in ensuring the objectives are reached.

The product leader will ensure all associates act with an enterprise mindset, in accordance with FLS Flowserve (FLS) policies and procedures with integrity, honesty, trust and professionalism. Provide personally and through teams, excellent responsive and customer centric support to both internal and external customers. Establish first
- class communication and collaboration as the standard for yourself and your team. Due to the highly technical nature of these products, the Product Leader will also play an important role in internal training and in tactical

Responsibilities & Requirements:

- This role will define the boundaries of the product, strategic objectives, value proposition and linkages to other FLS products
- Developing a roadmap and defining realistic targets for costs, total revenue, gross margin, and market share for the product line over 1, 3, and 5-year horizons
- Defining the individual products within the product line that are required to satisfy the overall product line targets and objectives
- The features, functionality, standard market level selling prices, lead times, and sales channels (with Platform and Sales leadership).
- The target product cost, manufacturing lead time, and global manufacturing footprint (with Platform and Sales leadership).
- Creating appropriate and necessary tools and other collateral needed to quote, promote and sell products and conduct associate and customer training on those tools and collateral
- Where applicable, defining and controlling the global product technical definition in various configurators and pricing systems where the product can be quoted or sold (with Commercial Operations)
- Collaborating with Marketing on defining and creating all needed product literature and documentation including web site content and social media campaigns
- Leading competitive benchmarking efforts to ensure market positioning is consistent with strategic objectives for the product for the product line, develop and regularly updating a forward-looking product roadmap that link together the near
- and long-term financial objectives (price, volume, gross margins) of the product with the benefits derived from discrete tactical projects.
- Developing and maintaining detailed project charters that are clearly bounded in time, scope, and cost for each project defined within the Product Roadmap. Projects may include:

- pricing,
- promotion and advertising,
- R&D projects,
- manufacturing improvements,
- localization initiatives,
- strategic alliances, partnerships, etc.
- Assessing the return on investment for each project and reconciling the resource needs for those projects against individual unit or functional budgets
- Supporting the execution of these projects on an as required basis (product development projects will be driven and managed directly). Monitor the overall volume, revenue, profitability, hit rate and warranty costs of the product line, both before and after the projects.
- Assists in all necessary training in local region, subregion: customers, engineering, repair centers, sales force, field service etc. Coordinates with the Educational Services Group as required. Provide tactical sales support as necessary.
- Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Experience / Skills:

- A well-developed understanding of the target downstream refinery processing market including the relevant processes and systems and the role of FPD products therein.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to assemble and manage cross functional teams. Excellent oral and written presentation and communications skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills both oral and written.
- Ex