Product Manager - Manufacturing

Location

New Orleans, LA

Job Category

Engineering

Division

Intralox

Intralox is currently seeking a Product Manager for our Manufacturing Team to work out of our New Orleans, LA office. The successful candidate will manage a portfolio of products across their life cycles from a manufacturing perspective, as well as help shape the vision for how product management evolves within Intralox manufacturing over the next 3-5 years.

Intralox is a division of Laitram, L.L.C., with an extensive portfolio of innovative conveyance solutions and services that improve lives and optimize businesses worldwide. Our global workforce of over 3,000 employees in 20+ countries consists of reliable problem solvers, continuously developing and directly delivering solutions that have driven our customers' growth worldwide for more than 45 years.

Intralox was founded on the principle of doing the right thing, by treating customers, employees, and suppliers with honesty, fairness, and respect. We invest heavily in these values and aim to practice our business philosophy principles every day, which is why we have been consistently recognized for innovation and workplace excellence. We believe in the power of a good idea no matter where it comes from, using trust as the foundation to how we work, and that self-managed people are our greatest asset.

Responsibilities

• Own the manufacturing product strategy and roadmap for a dedicated product line, serving as the subject matter expert for products under management.
• Lead product lifecycle management, with a focus on manufacturing cost and profitability:
• Understand cost structure and manufacturing operations for products under management.
• Identify the products and opportunities with the highest potential for improvement and partner with engineering and commercial teams to pursue cost reduction.
• Partner with Quality, Engineering, and Production Control on product-level issues that affect cost or availability.
• Identify and mitigate risk across key lifecycle events, including launches, cutovers, and obsoletions.
• Maintain visibility into manufacturing capacity, align it with forecasts, and flag constraints early so leaders can act before they become urgent.
• Maintain continuity after new product development closes, through full stabilization.
• Partner with leadership to evaluate and prioritize product-level opportunities using cost, capacity, and customer-impact data, focusing the organization on the vital few.
• Build strong relationships with commercial, finance, and supply chain partners to represent manufacturing in key decisions.
• Champion a steering committee for overall manufacturing product management and the direction it moves in
• Influence across functions without direct authority, driving consistency and reducing duplicated effort across teams that touch product management work.

Requirements

• Business or Engineering degree or equivalent work experience
• 3-5 years of Product Management experience, plus demonstrated experience standing up a process, program, or function
• Manufacturing or operations experience (process flow, cost drivers, capacity) a plus
• Self-starter who builds structure and process in ambiguous environments, with a track record of influencing cross-functional partners
• Strong background in financial analysis of products and/or business operations overall.
• Ability to understand product value streams and evaluate profit margins on products
• Lean or continuous improvement mindset (waste elimination, focusing on the vital few)
• Strong communication
• Willing to travel (up to 15%) to global manufacturing sites

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