Senior Director - Product Management/Kinetix

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company's new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.
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Role Summary/ Essential Responsibilities:
The Senior Director - Product Management/KinetiX will be responsible for assisting with strategy, roadmap, and feature definition to create the best solutions for our customers and industry. This Senior Direct - Product Management will be accountable for Wabtec's Kinetix Product Line within Digital Intelligence. Kinetix is a product family that includes wayside inspection systems including vision-based technologies. The successful candidate will analyze market and competitive conditions and participate as part of the team that lays out a product vision that is differentiated and delivers unique value based on customer demands. This role spans many activities from strategic to tactical and provides cross-functional leadership, building bridges between development, sales and marketing, engineering, supply chain, etc. This position has overall P&L accountability for the KinetiX product line. The commercial organization for KinetiX will report to this person.
Additionally, you will:

• Outline NPI product development strategy, resource, and execution plan in-line with the allocated investment funding for the year; Work with Engineering and Project Management to ensure overall product deliverables to the end-customer in line with budget and customer contract milestones.
• Define overall portfolio and product strategy to create a detailed multi-generational product roadmap documented and maintained.
• Lead cross-functional teams across engineering, product owners, user experience, project, dev ops and services to formulate and sets the vision for product strategy and execution. Cross-functional teams include both partner and Wabtec onshore and offshore teams.
• Responsible for implementing the full product planning process, including business case definition, market / competitive analysis, target customer identification and growth forecast targets.
• Directly responsible for commercial organization including managing a sales pipeline, forecasting, delivering orders to support sustainable growth.
• Drive communication of modernization of the product family to both customers and internal constituents
• Work closely with end-users to capture feedback for further refinement of product user stories for verification and validation of the final production product release.
• Responsible for acceptance and definition of done to ensure development deliverables align with product vision and roadmap.
• Work and execute on inorganic opportunities to drive revenue growth, scale, and augment existing capabilities.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or Business.
• Demonstrated commercial intensity and a relentless drive to win and grow the product line and revenue.
• Strong business analysis, problem solving, and strategy development skills.
• Willingness to travel to up to 25% for support customer discovery and product sessions.
• Familiarity with product delivery, development and deployment process flows and activities with a demonstrated capacity for Product conceptualization.
• A minimum of 10 years of product management or software engineering experience or,
• A minimum of 5 years of transportation/rail industry experience
• Willingness to travel to up to 25% of your time both inside/outside to support customer discovery and product sessions.

Business Acumen:

• Strong business analysis, problem solving, operations, project management and/or prior product management experience.
• Evangelizes new technology and identifies new opportunities based on product trends.
• Able to define and set commercial pricing strategy for tiered product/ services offerings.

Leadership:

• Strong oral and written communication skills and presentation skills
• Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analytical skills and best practice.

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world's toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world's brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles...people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.