Senior Manager, Global Product Management

This position may be located in Germany, Italy, or United States.

The Leader, Global Product Management will be responsible for shaping a unified, global product strategy that protects the legacy of JOA’s flagship products while unlocking growth, efficiency, and innovation across both the JOA and CCS brands.

Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions of the Job:

1. Product Lifecycle Management

• Oversee new product introductions, platform upgrades, and end-of-life decisions for both legacy portfolios.
• Establish global standards for performance, features, durability, reliability, and cost targets.
• Drive modularization and shared component strategies where appropriate.

2. Market & Customer Insight

• Analyze global market trends, customer segments, competitor offerings, and price structures.
• Maintain close relationships with major customers—both long-standing premium buyers and the value-focused customer base inherited from Italy.
• Identify unmet needs and recommend next-generation features or entirely new product lines.
• Direct New Product Development by initiating new and/or improved feature, performance or upgrade requests founded in voice of customer and voice of market analysis.
• Direct customer requested opportunities to the proper platform management channels.

3. Intellectual Property Utilization

• Partner with engineering and legal teams to apply our strong IP portfolio across the entire product line (US -founded and IT-founded).
• Assess opportunities to leverage IP to strengthen differentiation, simplify designs, or block competitive threats.

4.

Leadership

Within-Function and Cross-Functional

• Build and manage a team of product line “Platform Managers”.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, marketing, finance, sales, and service teams across the U.S. and Italy.
• Guide Engineering and R&D prioritization based on clear business cases, ROI, and strategic importance.
• Support operations in aligning manufacturing strategies—premium builds, value-tier builds, and hybrid solutions.

5.

Commercial &

Support

• Partner with Sales to translate VOC/VOM insights into market positioning, pricing guidance, product training, and competitive talking points.
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing on launch strategies for new platforms and updates, incorporating customer feedback, market needs, and competitive intelligence.
• Work jointly with Sales and Marketing to communicate the strengths of the combined portfolio, ensuring messaging reflects customer and market priorities while protecting brand equity.
• Establish an ongoing feedback loop with Sales to capture emerging customer needs, competitive activity, objections, and market trends and incorporate those insights into product and commercial priorities.

6. Product Integration Leadership

• Serve as the product bridge between U.S. and Italian operations, ensuring disciplined alignment and transparent communication.
• Identify operational redundancies and product synergies that can improve efficiency without compromising quality.

7. Platform Management

• Own and optimize assigned machinery platforms to maximize profitability, standardization, and scalability by aligning customer requirements with proven designs, technology libraries, preferred vendors, layouts, and processes.
• Drive platform strategy and continuous improvement by monitoring customer and market needs, emerging materials, machinery, processes, and competitive developments, and translating insights into platform, technology, and capability roadmaps.
• Provide technical and commercial leadership throughout the sales and project lifecycle, including evaluation of customer specifications, equipment selection, layouts, engineering estimates, performance criteria, risk assessments, and other engineering inputs required for proposals and successful machine integration.
• Champion successful project execution and platform governance by partnering with project managers and cross-functional subject matter experts to manage technical risk, control platform changes, maintain design standards, and achieve customer expectations for quality, cost, scope, and on-time delivery.
• Serve as the platform subject matter expert and thought leader, representing JOA with customers and at relevant industry events while maintaining platform knowledge, protecting proprietary information, advancing strategic technologies and processes, and developing others to ensure succession of critical knowledge and capabilities.

Occasional Job Responsibilities

Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business Administration from a four-year college or university.
• 6+ years related engineering or product management experience; or 10 – 12 years of progressively responsible related experience including supervisory experience.
• This role requires sound judgment, disciplined execution, and respect for how great companies are built over time.
• Product management or product strategy perspective and/or experience in industrial machinery, capital equipment, or related engineered products.
• Demonstrated aptitude to assess, understand, and manage global product portfolios.
• Strong technical aptitude with an appreciation for engineering rigor and manufacturing discipline.
• Experience integrating product lines post-acquisition is a strong advantage.
• Ability to travel globally as needed.
• Fluid in written and spoken English.