Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Lincoln Electric is a high-performance industrial machinery and technology leader who helps customers manufacture and maintain vital equipment and infrastructure. Lincoln Electric’s innovative solutions enable higher quality and productivity across a variety of processes including welding, cutting, brazing, machining, process automation, and field repair. The Company leverages proprietary technologies and expertise in materials science, power electronics, automation, and intelligent software to help customers build better and achieve resilience in their operations. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is the essential ‘Linc’ that keeps the economy running. The Company operates 71 manufacturing and automation facilities across 20 countries and serves customers in over 160 countries. For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the Company’s website at https://www.lincolnelectric.com.

Location: Euclid - 22801
Req ID: 29452

Purpose

The Senior Product Manager, Alloys & Aluminum, Americas is an experienced professional that leads our stainless, nickel, chrome-moly and aluminum welding consumable product categories. They focus on developing and aligning product line strategies to the broader consumables portfolio’s objectives. This individual is responsible for the mature product portfolio, strategy, and roadmap execution for these product categories across the Americas region (north, central and south america) and serves as a key resource for engineering, sales, operations and the broader product management organization.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Product Line Strategy & Roadmap Execution - Develop and own the 5 year strategic roadmap for the alloys & aluminum product lines, ensuring alignment with the Americas Consumables portfolio objectives. Identify opportunities for new product introductions, product line expansions, technology advancements and manufacturing location optimizations.

Financial Performance - Monitor and drive category-level revenue, pricing, and profitability of new products to contribute 1.5% incremental sales growth annually. Manage the alloys & aluminum consumable mature product portfolio to achieve MSD % improvements of annual revenue, profitability and working capital annually.

Product Lifecycle Management - Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle across the alloys & aluminum product lines. Make data-driven decisions on feature prioritization, product improvements, and discontinuations. Work closely with engineering and operations to improve manufacturing efficiency.

Cross-Functional Coordination - Partners with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing and sales teams to ensure operational readiness.

Customer & Competitive Insights – Partner with market intelligence team to conduct in-depth customer research to validate market needs and guide product development. Track competitor activities and emerging trends within the target markets.

Subject Matter Expertise - recognized as an expert and advisor within the organization on alloy and aluminum welding consumables and the product management function. Anticipates internal and external business challenges; recommends process, product or service improvements. Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on business. Contributes to the development of functional strategy. Leads teams or projects with broad visibility to achieve milestones and objectives. Operates with broad latitude in a complex environment

Success Metrics

• Product Line Strategy – 5 year product line roadmap realization rate (%)
• New Product Incremental Revenue – Attainment to 1.5% of annual new product sales growth
• Mature Portfolio Financial Performance - Annual Sales, Profitability and Working Capital Growth
• Portfolio Lifecycle Management – Portfolio sales vitality rate % and 80/20 KPI improvements
• Customer & Market Insights - Customer adoption rate of new features (%)
• Leadership & Team Development - Leadership influence in product line-wide decisions
• Innovation & Process Improvement - Number of product line-level new products, SKU reductions, and process improvements

Basic Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in product management or related functions.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, marketing, or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Strong experience in product line strategy, competitive analysis, and customer insights.
• Ability to manage commercial aspects of the product line while also overseeing operational considerations that impact the financial performance of the product line.

Competencies

• Assigned by Job Code

Lincoln Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunity for applicants, without regard to their race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

Nearest Major Market: Cleveland

Job Segment: Welding, Machinist, Manufacturing