Global Product Manager (Chemistry)

Imagine yourself…

• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project. 

• Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence. 

• Contributing to a brighter, more sustainable future. 

At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.  More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

The Global Product Manager (GPM) is a key strategic position within the Advanced Chemistries Business Unit.  As the Global Product Manager, you will own the performance and overall lifecycle of your respective product line.  The GPM drives growth by leading the assigned product strategic plan for the respective verticals and applications.  This includes understanding customer pain points, the interconnectedness of Hach’s solutions and developing and executing strategies to drive growth with existing customers and discovering new opportunities.  This role will ensure alignment with the regional commercial, marketing, service, R&D, and operations teams.  A successful GPM is customer focused, strategic, action oriented, has a strong organizational agility and leads by influence to identify and implement growth initiatives.  Further, a GPM leads new product launches and commercialization.

This position is part of the Advanced Chemistries Business Unit team located in Loveland, Colorado, and will be hybrid.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Responsible for overall success of relevant products including achievement of revenue, margin, and technical performance/quality metrics
• Support development and execution of strategy for portfolio growth by understanding global market trends and prioritizing strategic initiatives
• Drive Launch Excellence through development of product go-to-market strategy to ensure critical success metrics are achieved for new products and commercial initiatives
• Establish/maintain value proposition for New Product Introduction and existing products
• Develop evidence driven competitive strategy to ensure that our products and solutions are differentiated and defensible
• Build 1–3-year global product forecasts for on-market products.  Identify and prioritize product-specific evidence generation to support market shaping strategies
• Inform NPD roadmap decisions and product definitions; develop/validate business cases for new product opportunities
• Identify market trends and needs for products and ensure that product designs match customer demand while delivering profitable market share

The essential requirements of the job include:  

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field; MBA preferred
• Minimum 2 years of experience; product management / commercial experience preferred
• Strong critical thinking skills: ability to synthesize a collection of facts into logical and actionable conclusions
• Strong written and oral communication skills for direct communication with customers, colleagues, and partners at all levels and across all functions and regions of the organization
• Able to elicit and understand customer needs and translate customer needs into product requirements
• Able to identify and prioritize the tasks necessary to meet long- and short-term objectives, effectively manage time and multi-task to achieve these objectives
• Must be able to travel up to 20% of the time; both domestic and international

Hach is proud to part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Verlato's vibrant global network of 16,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.

For Colorado roles only: We anticipate this requisition will be open for a minimum of five days, though it may be open for a longer period of time. We encourage your prompt application.

US ONLY: 

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $110,000.00 - $140,000.00 USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. 

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We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at [email protected] to request accommodation.
 

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