Director, Product Management

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What powers us? Our employees. From the first person hired by James Allison in 1915 to the thousands across the globe who work for Allison today, we're driving progress everywhere because we employ top talent worldwide. In both the Allison Transmission and Allison Off-Highway Drive and Motion Systems business units, our team strives to Improve the Way the World Works.  

Learn more about this role and how you can begin driving your career forward!

Benefits:

The below list features some of the benefits currently available. Eligibility may be subject to the terms and conditions of governing documents and available benefits may be subject to change at the company’s discretion.

• Choice of medical plans with prescription coverage

• Employer HSA contribution

• Dental & Vision Insurance

• Paid Parental Leave

• Short & Long-Term Disability

• Other voluntary benefits including: Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Identity Theft Protection and Pet Insurance

• 401K with generous Company match & contribution

• Accrued Paid Time Off

• 12 Paid Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday

• Robust employee wellness program

• Tuition assistance program

Job Description:

Drives product strategy and initiatives for the designated end-market(s).  This position is responsible for the product planning and overall assessment of product platform health throughout the lifecycle, including: understanding market trends and impacts, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, and marketing to develop long-term product roadmaps supporting profitable end-market growth.

Responsibilities:

• Defines and establishes the long-term product development roadmaps and strategies for the end-market portfolio. Collaborates closely with the business segment product/ technology teams, customers, OEM tech days, technology symposiums, Engine Manufacturers and strategy teams to translate corporate strategy into product portfolio strategy and to identify roadmap gaps and needs.
• Owns the creation, validation and internal publication of End Market Summaries and product roadmaps.
• Utilizes tools and templates to drive a systematic disciplined approach to assessing new product development initiatives, guided by corporate portfolio strategy.
• Conducts reviews to ensure strategic plans are successfully executed, establishing clear milestones and metrics to evaluate product strategies and related initiatives. Identify relevant product and market trends affecting current and future products within the portfolio.
• Facilitates prioritization of market and competitor intelligence mining, regarding new product development
• Improve Allison Transmission’s relationships and influence over key OEMs and End Users by strengthening product management collaboration to understand customers’ product and technology roadmaps.  Support key customer engagements and industry trade shows.   
• Assesses product platform lifecycle health and product performance monitoring against value proposition.
• Works closely with internal engineering, sales, and marketing teams to ensure information is gathered and utilized to drive decisions and action plans.
• Works with internal functions of operations, purchasing, and engineering to develop cost profiles and CapEx estimates for business case analysis, integrating and optimizing customer and supplier requirements early in the process to drive profitable growth and product positioning.

Key Performance Measures:

Tracking and improvement upon measurables of cost, investment, quality and timing reflecting leadership and decision-making in a cross functional team environment associated with continuous improvement and New Product Management initiatives that increase customer value and grow revenue and profitability; examples include tracking key cross functional tasks associated with a customer required product change, and implementation and achievement of product cost reduction activities.

Required Education:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or demonstrated aptitude of relevant product management disciplines

Preferred Education:

Master’s degree in engineering, Business Administration, or Management

Experience:

7+ years of transmission or automotive industry experience with cross functional team experience and a proven record of driving results in a matrixed organization

Knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation)

Knowledge of New Product Development (NPD) processes and program management activities

Ability to influence at all levels of the business (from entry level through the CEO)

Preferred Experience:

3+ years in a product management or product launch capacity

People and/or program leadership management

Travel Requirement: Must be able to travel 15% of the time

Must be a U.S. Person or individual otherwise eligible to be authorized to work with export-controlled items or data or perform services on military vehicles.

Allison Transmission is an equal opportunity employer. We have opportunities for all qualified applicants regardless of age, race, color, sex, religion, creed, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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Please note that Allison Transmission will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Allison Transmission will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.