Director, Global Product Management, Phased Array & Eddy Current Sensors at Wabtec in State College, PA

Job description

The Director, Global Product Management is a critical leadership role within the Wabtec Inspection Technologies Global Product Management & Marketing (PMM) organization.  Reporting to the Global VP PMM for NDT, this role is responsible for leading a team of Product Specialists to sustain and grow the market share of the Phased Array sensors and Eddy Current sensors product lines, while maintaining a long-term vision to meet market needs.    The Director, Global Product Management is accountable for assigned product lines P&L development against targets and key product market share development globally, as well as within regions and targeted market segments.  In this effort, this role will coordinate and collaborate very closely within the Product Management team, with Sales Leadership, as well as with Application Engineering teams.      The Director, Global Product Management must work collaboratively with regional Sales Management and Applications Engineering teams to collect market intelligence data (VoC, VoS, win/loss root cause analysis, industry trends, market share, market opportunity in targeted segments, competitor activities/trends).  It is critical that the Director, Global Product Management utilizes this market intelligence data to focus our efforts toward Innovation that Matters.  The Product Management team must continually refine our development strategies and priorities to create products and solutions based upon what actually matters to our customers.     The Director, Global Product Management is responsible for the development and maintenance of their assigned Product Line Strategies and Product Road Maps (PRM).  This activity will be coordinated with Global Working Groups comprised of team members selected by the Director and VP PMM from Global Product Marketing, Sales, Application Engineering, and R&D.    The Director, Global Product Management is responsible for regular collaboration and coordination with R&D to ensure that PRM projects are well executed, and for execution of Product Launch / NPI activities with Winning Go-To-Market strategies and unparalleled Unique Customer Value Propositions.  Launch / NPI activities must be well-coordinated with Global and Regional Leaders from Sales, Applications Engineering, and Marketing.      ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES •        Team Management & Talent Development: Oversee team of Product Specialists. Where applicable, based on Product Line(s) assigned, oversee a team of Application Specialists and/or Application Scientists. Provide timely and complete roll-up of Global Product Management team activities, KPIs, Problem Solving Process documents, and PDCA Action Plan improvement initiatives. Responsible to monitor, optimize and achieve product performance within business objectives. Responsible for monthly monitoring and analysis of actual achievement vs KPIs to identify requirements for improvement. Drive global solutions to achieve business goals. Delegate key responsibilities for specific products/product lines as appropriate to team members.  While maintaining ownership over the complete Business Line KPIs, foster talent development among Product Specialists through delegation of KPI measurement, management, problem solving, PDCA Action Plan improvement initiatives.  Ensure that KPIs that are managed by team members are effectively rolled up into Business Line KPIs in a timely manner for reporting purposes. Ensure that team members are regularly exposed to a range of activities to foster talent development.  This includes responsibility for regularly (daily) product support activities with customers and sales team members, participation in R&D activities, attendance at working group meetings, regular collaboration with the Sales and Application Engineering organizations, and regular travel to meet with customers,