Hach Company Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Hach is a leading company in the field of water quality solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead the team in developing and executing the global product management strategy. This role involves mentoring the team, collaborating with various functions, and driving portfolio growth through strategic partnerships and innovation.
Responsibilities:
• Provide clear vision, coaching and mentorship to team.
• Lead the development and execution of the global strategy for portfolio growth showing clear linkage between customer needs and global market trends.
• Accountable for overall success of assigned product lines including achievement of revenue, margin, growth, and quality metrics.
• Build and develop a highly engaged, high-performing, customer-oriented organization.
• Motivate team to perform at their highest levels.
• Achieve goals beyond just revenue achievement to include Share Gain and Margin Expansion.
• Identify and engage strategic partners to accelerate Hach’s global product and business strategies.
• Identify and establish relationships and partnerships based on Product Road requirements with external organizations (e.g. technology firms, universities, start-ups, etc); contribute to contract development, drive successful commercialization and achieve profitable growth for both Hach and the partner.
• Identify and cultivate acquisition targets aligned with Hach’s long-term growth strategy; engage when necessary in diligence, acquisition transactions and integration of target companies.
• Champion VES throughout the team to ensure systematic sustainable growth.
• Partner with Regional commercial teams to demonstrate new and higher standards for well-executed new product introductions and commercial tactics to drive growth for existing products.
• Influence New Product Development (NPD) roadmap decisions and product definitions through market driven insight.
• Ensure Lab portfolio is up-to-date, including product feature updates and potential digital connectivity strategies.
• Collaborate with R&D (Engineering) counterparts to ensure successful execution of projects.
• Develop a strategic rationalized portfolio of products within the product line, including growth, margin improvement and lifecycle related initiatives.
• Manage relationships, deliverables, and expectations while leveraging the expertise of various business units and functions across Hach and Veralto.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience.
• 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.
• Insights: ability to perform detailed analysis, connect insights, articulate a vision, develop a strategic plan, and execute at a tactical level.
• Collaboration: manage relationships, deliverables, expectations and leverage expertise of business units and functions across Hach and Veralto.
• Ownership: approach work with a strong sense of accountability, commitment, and urgency.
• Growth Mindset: creatively develop paths forward to growth where others get stuck, commit to continuous improvement at personal and organizational levels.
• Continuous Improvement: confidence and self-motivation to proactively identify root cause of issues, propose solutions and fill leadership gaps.
• Influence: can quickly establish credibility, trust, and support with all levels of the organization including peers, direct reports, and senior management.
• Must be able to travel up to 30% of the time; both domestic and international travel is required.
• Fluent in English.
Preferred:
• MBA preferred.
• Product management/ commercial experience preferred.
Company:
Hach Company manufactures and distributes analytical instruments and reagents used to test the quality of water and other liquid solutions. It is a sub-organization of Veralto. Founded in 1947, the company is headquartered in Loveland, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.