Product Manager

7 days ago


Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Trimble Full time

Product Manager - Hardware Solutions

Product Manager - Hardware Solutions

Your Title: Product Manager - Hardware Solutions

Job Location: Christchurch, NZ

Our Department: Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)

Does helping transform the earthmoving industry as a hardware product manager for construction industry solutions excite you?

What You Will Do

As the Product Manager for Hardware Solutions within CTCT, you will be a key member of an empowered and accountable Product Team that has true ownership of their product; sellable, installable, and supportable hardware solutions that increase market penetration and system sales revenue.

You will be responsible for translating CTCT strategy to product team strategy, distilling product needs from customer needs and requests, and establishing priorities within the Product Team. You will work directly with internal and external customers, suppliers, stakeholders, and multi-discipline engineering teams to develop, maintain, and support compelling, high-quality hardware products throughout the complete lifecycle.

Your product responsibilities will include displays, electronic controllers, and other hardware used in the heavy and compact construction, paving, and mining industries.

This will include:

  • Work closely with customers, stakeholders, and multi-discipline teams to capture product needs and requests
  • Develop the Product Team Strategy, Multi-Generation Product Plan (MGPP), and Roadmap based on a deep understanding of customer, partner, and market needs
  • Set priorities to drive execution within the product team based on customer, stakeholder, product team, and lifecycle needs
  • Identify and champion hardware opportunities within CTCT and parent organizations to constantly improve the financial position of CTCT, Caterpillar, and Trimble
  • Lead with respect to issues, changes, decisions, and communications affecting your products and product team
  • Drive market research and competitive analysis to inform product development
  • Author/stakeholder for key documents including the Market Requirements Document (MRD), Product Requirements Document (PRD), Product Change Notifications (PCN), end-of-life notifications, user documentation, etc.

Role Expectations

  • Specialised depth and/or breadth of expertise in hardware product development and product management
  • Communicate difficult concepts and negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view
  • Network with key contacts outside your own area of expertise
  • Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, or services
  • Lead others to solve complex problems
  • Work independently. Receive guidance in only the most complex situations
  • May lead teams or projects

What You Should Bring

  • BS in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrable professional experience working in product management, engineering, or a closely related role
  • Experience across the full hardware product development cycle
  • Hardware lifecycle management experience
  • Skilled in working with external suppliers and partners, and as part of a global team
  • Highly self-motivated, curious, proactive
  • Excellent written, verbal, visual, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Adept at influencing to achieve product outcomes
  • Attuned to the needs of the internal and external customer
  • Ability to think like the end user and translate customer needs into product requirements that are aligned with product strategy
  • Demonstrated ability to make effective, timely product decisions
  • Experience with grade control, construction business, construction machine operation and workflows, and/or automotive component development is highly desirable.

About Your Location

Based at Trimble's NZ headquarters in Christchurch, New Zealand (handily located on the Little River Link Cycleway), enjoy free parking, securely covered bike sheds, an onsite gym, showers, an active social club, and a great team environment where people love working with leading technology solutions.

At Trimble, you'll find the inspiration and opportunity to be yourself and thrive. The global community of Team Trimble, including more than 400 people in New Zealand, is passionate about bringing new ideas and innovations to life and building a better, more sustainable future.

Please Note: Only applicants legally entitled to work in New Zealand will be considered.

About CTCT

Our division develops machine control products that use site design information combined with positioning technology to semi-automatically control machines. These products are used in a range of applications to enable machine operators to perform their work safely, accurately, efficiently, sustainably, and effectively through the use of sophisticated yet intuitive user-centric technology.

Trimble's Inclusiveness Commitment

We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.

We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.

Trimble's Privacy Policy

Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability. From purpose built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble software, hardware and services are transforming a broad range of industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation and logistics. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit www.trimble.com.

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