Product Manager

Position Description

At a Glance

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Product Manager to join the Finelite Team in Union City, CA.

Description

As Product Manager, you will guide the product development life cycle from cradle to grave by identifying potential products; conducting market research; generating product requirements; determining specifications, product development timetables, and facilitate plans and efforts for product introduction. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company to improving or developing processes for onboarding new technologies. You will build products from existing ideas and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and industry experts. You must possess a unique blend of business, people and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You will command the skill of time and project management to balance multiple projects and prioritize time and resources to meet project deadlines. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the architectural lighting market, including products, trends, customer needs and technologies.

You must be able to effectively communicate with all areas of the company and customers.. You will be tasked with defining, developing and managing products and must engage teams in every aspect of the development process. You will be the expert and champion both internally and externally for your products and will be required to communicate the product line’s values. You will be required to use your interpersonal skills to influence team members across multiple functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Roadmap Development: develop and execute a product roadmap that is aligned with market trends, customer needs and company goals
• Lifecycle management: Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
• Market Research and Analysis: Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and other key stakeholders.
• Data Analytics: Analyze market performance data of current product portfolio and provide strategic recommendations to leadership stakeholders
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Using project management skills to drive the development and execution of a product solution across all cross-functional teams from market requirements through launch.
• Customer & Sales Support: provide ongoing support to sales, marketing and customers on product specifications through training and presentations.

Qualifications

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or a related field; MBA preferred
• 5+ years of product management experience
• Knowledgeable in lighting and/or building controls highly valued

Preferred Skills

• Strong data analysis & presentation skills
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Strong interpersonal skills – highly collaborative and able to work effectively in a team
• Excellent communicator and listener to multiple audiences.
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• This position requires travel to customer and non-customer sites in (10%).

Company Info

About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR). For more information, visit

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit

About Legrand’s Lighting Sector

Legrand’s Lighting Sector consists of five lighting brands; , , , and which focus on architectural, decorative, and downlighting and which focuses on lighting for demanding environments. We employ a talented group of employees that love lighting to design and manufacture high performance, energy efficient LED lighting solutions for applications in commercial, educational, healthcare, as well as challenging environments such as tunnels and correctional facilities. With an eye toward sustainable design, our focus is on specification-oriented products and solutions that meet the functional needs of spaces while working in harmony with the designer’s vision for those spaces. We work with architects, engineers, and contractors to supply lighting built specifically for their client’s projects.

Equal Opportunity Employer