Crane Building Services & Utilities
Senior Product Manager

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Senior Product Manager
We currently have a vacancy for the role of Senior Product Manager at our Hitchin site. Reporting to the Business Line Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for product category management within the utilities portfolio of products.
This role involves managing 3 main areas:
- Developing and executing product roadmaps
- Ownership of strategic initiatives
- Supporting the operation of the P&L
The Senior Product Manager will develop business cases where appropriate for decision making and be required to scope, pitch, and report on their execution.
Specific Responsibilities
- Commercial management of product categories to support geographic and product line growth and profitability.
- Support operational planning, monitoring and reporting business performance targets, market analysis, and competitor analysis.
- Build and maintain product roadmaps. This requires the delivery of NPD, ownership of the required capital expenditure request, product launch, and profitability in line with P&L targets.
- Directly lead voice of customer engagement to validate competitor analysis, market sizes, customer pain points and technology trends that can be converted into business actions driving growth.
- Support the development, presentation, monitoring and execution of strategic and operational initiatives in line with planned commitments.
- Identify new opportunities for the business within existing and new markets.
- Detailed monitoring and reporting of market segmentation, customer profiles and windows to market.
- As a key part of the operational planning cycle directly support the business line manager in converting strategic targets into operational targets for the year.
- Work collaboratively with commercial, supply chain, and operation team members to complete the sales inventory and operations planning process regularly in line with the planned cost of sales.
- Engage with commercial teams to understand monthly regional forecasts and product line performance.
- Identify, scope and lead the delivery of regional and customer-specific initiatives to deliver on-plan performance for product lines and regions.
- Detailed monitoring and reporting of forecasts, pricing, cost of sales for end-of-month reviews.
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The successful candidate must be educated to degree level (or equivalent) in technical and business management subjects with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Product Management. Applicants will have project management qualifications and experience, be able to demonstrate strategic thinking and analytical skills in conjunction with excellent presentation skills. A proven record of efficiently managing multiple tasks and priorities combined with excellent analytical, communication and excellent cross-functional team leadership skills are essential for this role.


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About Us
Crane Building Services and Utilities (BS&U) is part of the Fluid Handling Division of Crane Co. founded in 1855, which is a global, multi-industry, New York Stock Exchange quoted company. We design, manufacture, package and market engineered flow control solutions for the HVAC and Utility sectors, with strong sales into key growth export markets.
The name Crane speaks of who we are, what we stand for and how our customers perceive us: A company with history and tradition, but also a company that is innovative, quality minded and one which acts with integrity and still holds to the resolution of its founder.
Crane Co. was founded on 4th July 1855 by Richard Teller Crane who made the following resolution:
"I am resolved to conduct my business in the strictest honesty and fairness; to avoid all deception and trickery; to deal fairly with both customers and competitors; to be liberal and just towards employees; and to put my whole mind upon the business."
The essence of this resolution is the business policy of Crane Co. today.
We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity is key to our success and as such we are seeking applications from candidates who will contribute their different backgrounds, cultures and experiences to our business.
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