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Why Work at Banner?

For over 50 years, Banner Engineering has been at the forefront of industrial automation. We offer products and solutions including award-winning sensors, wireless solutions, machine safety, indication and LED lighting. From Fortune 500 leaders to innovative startups, Banner's award-winning products and solutions are helping companies around the world increase efficiency, reduce costs, safeguard equipment, and protect personnel. Our commitment to innovation shows through a continuous, market-driven evolution of products and technology. With engineers employed in nearly every major department, engineering is in our DNA.

Banner is a rapidly growing company that offers many personal development opportunities, an excellent benefits package, and a collaborative team of employees who are passionate about what they do.

Position Summary

In this position, you will lead the market success, growth, and lifecycle management of Banner Engineering's Advanced Industrial Process Sensing portfolio within the Networking & Condition Monitoring Business Unit. This role is responsible for managing and expanding an established portfolio while helping guide Banner's expansion into adjacent process sensing and instrumentation categories. Strategic growth areas may include temperature measurement technologies, flow sensing solutions, and future industrial process monitoring offerings.
This position reports to the Vice President of High Value Manufacturing.

What You’ll Be Doing

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working individually and collaboratively, staying on top of tasks and making a meaningful impact across teams and projects. Below are some key responsibilities of the role.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Advanced Industrial Process Sensing portfolio, including established condition monitoring solutions and strategic adjacent growth initiatives.
• Contribute to development and maintain portfolio roadmaps that strengthen existing product offerings while supporting expansion into adjacent process sensing technologies and instrumentation markets.
• Drive portfolio growth through enhancements to existing product families and development of strategic adjacent offerings in process sensing applications.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis activities to identify new product and market opportunities.
• Develop product requirements and business cases for new product enhancements and adjacent portfolio additions.
• Partner closely with engineering teams throughout product development and lifecycle management activities.
• Lead new product launch activities including positioning, pricing, sales enablement, and commercialization.
• Work closely with sales, marketing, business development, distributors, OEMs, and end users to identify growth opportunities.
• Monitor product performance, revenue growth, profitability, market share, and customer adoption.
• Support annual planning, forecasting, and portfolio investment prioritization activities.
• Present portfolio recommendations and market insights to business unit leadership.
• Lead and participate in special projects as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Bring to the Table

To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily, and regular attendance is required. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to perform this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to support individuals with disabilities.

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or related technical discipline.
• A minimum of 3–5 years of product management, application engineering, technical marketing, or business development experience within industrial automation, sensing, instrumentation, or process control industries.
• Demonstrated success managing and growing industrial technology product portfolios.
• Strong understanding of industrial sensing technologies and customer applications.
• Experience conducting market analysis, competitive assessments, and customer research.
• Strong communication, presentation, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Ability to influence decisions and drive results without direct authority.
• Availability for domestic and occasional international travel.

Preferred

• Experience with temperature measurement technologies, including RTDs, thermocouples, thermal monitoring, or related industrial sensing applications.
• Experience with flow measurement, industrial instrumentation, process monitoring, or related sensing technologies.
• Experience serving water/wastewater, food and beverage, chemical processing, energy, pharmaceutical, data center, or manufacturing industries.
• Experience managing global product portfolios.
• Knowledge of industrial networking, IIoT, predictive maintenance, or condition monitoring solutions.
• Familiarity with Banner Engineering products and solutions.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

What to Expect at Work

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to support individuals with disabilities.

• Sit for up to 8 hours per day.
• Exposed to a computer screen for extended periods.
• May require repetitive motions such as utilize a computer mouse, keyboard, computer, and other standard office equipment.
• Communicate with others frequently.
• Occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to work on-site in a manufacturing environment and travel to other facilities when needed.
• Ability to travel by car or airplane to customer sites (20% or less).

Working Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those you may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Corporate office environment – indoor and climate-controlled.
• Frequent interaction with internal departments, cross-functional teams, and external partners, as well as employees across all levels of the organization—including entry-level staff, senior leadership, clients, or vendors.
• Position is normally in office with occasional travel to visit customers, distributors, or attend industry trade shows.

Pay and Benefits

Banner Engineering is committed to offering competitive pay and benefits, including, but not limited to:

• 401(k) with match
• Student Loan 401(k) match program
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plans
• HSA (Health Savings Account) with company contribution
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Sales and Profit Sharing Eligibility
• Flexible work hours
• Life Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Pet Insurance

Base Pay Range: $110,000 - $175,000

*Please note some career sites assign estimated compensation ranges that may not accurately reflect what is offered by Banner Engineering.

Core Values

Customer Driven, Accountability Focused, Integrity Always, New Solutions – Every Day

If you excel in a dynamic, collaborative environment and are looking for meaningful challenges and opportunities to grow, you’ll find a great fit here. Banner Engineering is a premier employer headquartered in MN, offering competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development as we rapidly grow in the Industrial Automation industry.

Banner Engineering is an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Affirmative Action (AA)/Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/D/V

This job description reflects management’s assignment of key responsibilities; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.