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Job Summary:
Trystar is at the forefront of advancing power solutions, and they are seeking a Product Manager - Operations Supply to own the interface between their solution portfolio and operational execution. This role is critical for setting fulfillment, cost, and supply requirements to ensure Trystar meets customer commitments and drives value across Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Planning.
Responsibilities:
• Define the fulfillment model requirements across the enterprise portfolio, setting lead time targets and cost expectations that align to customer and market requirements and Trystar’s strategy.
• Set cost-out requirements and priorities across the portfolio, working with ETO Engineering, Manufacturing, and Sourcing to drive measurable GP improvement.
• Partner with our sourcing team to develop sourcing requirements and derisk critical solution components, ensuring Trystar can sustain delivery commitments under demand variability.
• Define the operational readiness requirements for new solution introductions and M&A integrations, ensuring our operations team is prepared before commercial launch.
• Provide SIOP with broad market context, new solution launch timing, and forward-looking demand requirements — informing the process without owning cycle execution, which remains with Sales Ops and Planning.
• Identify and escalate capacity constraints, make-buy risks, and fulfillment bottlenecks that threaten delivery commitments or growth objectives; set resolution requirements for Manufacturing and Sourcing.
• Consume Finance’s margin reporting and translate it into specific cost-out targets, design-to-cost requirements, and make-buy direction for the operational teams.
• Participate in EQR Performance reviews, identifying systemic cost overruns and poor-margin configurations — and setting the requirements to address them.
• Establish dual-source and supply risk standards for critical components, working with Sourcing to develop mitigation plans against single points of failure.
• Define operational go-live requirements for new solution introductions — Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, and Planning own the execution against those requirements.
• Set the operational integration requirements for M&A transactions, including manufacturing footprint, supplier rationalization, and inventory strategy; coordinate across functions to ensure execution.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 7+ years of experience in operations strategy, supply chain management, product operations, or offering management in a B2B manufacturing or industrial technology business.
• Demonstrated experience with SIOP or S&OP processes and their commercial implications — contributing to the process without owning its execution.
• Strong understanding of CTO vs. ETO fulfillment model tradeoffs and their impact on lead time, margin, and customer experience.
• Experience driving cost-out programs across manufactured solution portfolios with measurable gross margin outcomes.
• Ability to build supply chain resilience frameworks, including dual sourcing standards and supply risk assessments.
• Cross-functional credibility with Manufacturing, Sourcing, Planning, Engineering, and Finance — able to set requirements and hold teams accountable without direct authority.
• Proven ability to integrate AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) into core workflows — research, modeling, communications, synthesis — with demonstrated examples of how AI accelerated output quality or speed.
• Monthly travel required for candidates not based in Minnesota.
Preferred:
• Experience in electrical power systems, capital equipment manufacturing, or adjacent industrial markets.
• Familiarity with ERP systems (Oracle, SAP, or equivalent) and operational data environments.
• APICS CPIM, CSCP, or equivalent supply chain certification a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Operations, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
• MBA a plus.
Company:
Trystar is a design and manufactures our products to meet the industry. Founded in 1991, the company is headquartered in Faribault, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.