Product Management Excellence Leader Job Details | Ingersoll Rand Careers

Ingersoll Rand is a technology company focused on mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies across industrial markets. The Product Management Excellence Leader will design and scale the Product Management and New Product Development operating model, coach talent, and build organizational capability. The role will oversee market intelligence, stage-gate processes, engineering coordination, product rationalization, intellectual property strategy, and product cybersecurity reviews.

Responsibilities:

• Application Intelligence and Market Sizing
• Own standard work for VOC process and host trainings, drive team adherence and create centralized customer insight database
• Own and maintain AIM (applications, industries, markets) framework for PT overall to establish master list of target applications and total addressable market for each. Conduct periodic review to determine PT market share and identify gaps in regions/countries/markets
• From won/lost funnel analysis, document scalable wins as references for sales and marketing and document product gaps as inputs to respective sub business unit product managers
• Own Ingersoll Ran Product Excellence (IRPX) gate process and strengthen business case approval process for NPD
• Own Stage-Gate process and deployment to drive excellence for PM and Engineering organizations, hold teams accountable to targeted toll gate dates, while establishing countermeasures to recover Engineering delays
• Strengthen gate review process for phase gate 1, phase gate 2, create and enforce standard work for business case review at both gates, bring a neutral perspective and reduce low impact product development
• Strengthen gate review process for phase gate 3, with standard work to translate validated business case for production inventory requirements
• Drive deliverables between the Ingersoll Rand Engineering & Technology Center (IRETC) and regional business unit Engineering teams
• Drive coordination of Engineering priorities in regions, across global business units, and with IRETC
• Create structure to evaluate projects and deliverables that will be executed by the IRETC
• Be the liaison with team of ~50 Engineering resources located in India, while keeping teams accountable to mutually agreed upon deliverables and timelines
• IP strategy, product rationalization
• At TG1, identify intellectual property opportunities, technology blocks, to feed patent strategy
• Create and deploy product rationalization framework to drive simplified product portfolio with more meaning to customers
• Own product related cybersecurity review process
• Establish criteria for cyber security review process within IRPX gate process
• For products launched, create framework together with corporate IT security resources to flag, prioritize and mitigate security risks
• Create project plans for security mitigation and ensure on time deliverables of product security related projects

Requirements:

• 8+ years of Product Management experience, with at least 3 years leading teams and building PM capability through structured mentorship
• Deep understanding of Agile/Scrum frameworks, product discovery techniques, and metrics-driven execution
• Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and develop effective solutions with a keen continuous improvement mind-set
• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive presence to champion organizational change
• Strong project / program management skills, including planning, execution, and monitoring
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
• Created and launched original, company-wide internal training academies or product management bootcamps
• Managed transitions from legacy project-based delivery models to modern, outcomes-driven product operating models