Product Development Manager - Trailer Fleet

Ryder System, Inc. is seeking a Product Development Manager for their Trailer Fleet. The role involves guiding strategy, sourcing, and execution of the trailer fleet while managing profitability metrics and working with sales, marketing, and operations to grow market share.

Responsibilities:

• Achieve profitability goals set by Ryder by working closely with assigned Region staff. Ensure regular communication with our leaders and facilitate needed resources to meet objectives
• Develop, propose, and implement competitive and profitable pricing strategies including internal and external communication plan
• Create and manage RFP process for target accounts, including solution development, communication, and go-to-market strategy
• Introduce and foster strategic external partnerships across the industry that inhibit profitable share-of-wallet growth
• Lead design activities to identify growth opportunities and define product strategies including conducting competitive market analysis, customer research, capability and dependency analysis, defining objectives, and outlining key results
• Evaluate, prioritize, and determine what product experiences is built, identifying the core user stories that will deliver optimal learning, and establish a shared understanding for all stakeholders involved
• Ensure delivery of promised services to maximize satisfaction for our customers
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Ability to professionally represent Ryder and competently interact with customer management required
• Strong sense of personal accountability and a proven track record of achieving desired results
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, externally with customers and across all levels within the organization to drive results
• Ability to influence without authority across the organization
• Ability to work independently and as member of a team
• Strong organization and presentation skills
• Competent in basic computer skills and in a Microsoft Office environment
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, or Engineering
• 6 years or more in in Product Management, Transportation Operations management, role with solution focus. Experience in strategic development, financial analysis, and operating metric performance management
• Must be able to understand financial statements and operating metrics
• Ability to work with reporting systems to pull data for analysis and decision making is strongly
• 4 years or more in experience in logistics, operations, engineering, agile development or solution development. Demonstrated experience in new product development
• Knowledge of supply chain management and transportation industries Intermediate