Associate Product Manager

We’re Watts. Together, we’re reimagining the future of water. We feel proud every day about what we do. We're all part of the same crucial mission, no matter what function we support -- it's to provide safe, clean water for the world, and to protect our planet's most valuable resource. What we do: For 150 years, Watts has built best-in-class products that are trusted by customers in residential and commercial settings across the world. We are at the forefront of innovation, working with cutting-edge technology to provide smart and connected, sustainable water solutions for the future. Watts is a leading brand with a quality reputation — and we have a dynamic future ahead.​ The Watts Water Technologies family of companies designs and manufactures valves and drains and related products that promote the comfort and safety of people and the quality, conservation and control of water used in commercial, residential, industrial, and municipal applications. Everything we design is made to keep the Earth’s most precious resource safer, cleaner, and more useful for our customers.     Watts is looking for an innovative Associate Product Manager that will provide daily and ongoing product and project support to the Product Management team including monthly and quarterly financial sales and margin tracking and analysis, new product development interdepartmental project interface, customer support and quotation assistance, Sales group assistance as it relates to product issues, and field support at trade shows and where needed to support product lines.     This position reports to the Sr. Product Manager. This role is onsite and is based in North Andover, MA.   Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities   Understand product portfolio, gaps, and work with different stakeholders to determine the best approach on developing user-friendly solutions   Design, develop, track and update competitive intelligence and market penetration database .   Manage stage gate process for New Product Development (NPD) initiatives   Updating databases, collecting requests for product requirements and creating foundations for business cases.   Interact with customers to assess product development needs, provide follow-up, and gage product development opportunities.   Develop Score Card and related slides for NPD PowerPoint slide deck, submit monthly to be presented.   Develop dashboards for Product Team to manage analytics, providing “deep dives” into data, becoming the “ PowerBI Expert ”.   Manage projects with Engineering and Product Development ensuring product launch is on time and on budget.   Provide financial projections, commitments for growth for new products launches.   Lead training sessions to educate customers on products strategy.   Lead/drive a close and effective cross - functional team dynamic.   Create product documentation and sales collateral for sales and technical presentations.   Travel required for learning and understanding the Voice of the Customer (VOC).

Bachelor's degree in technical discipline or business administration or equivalent experience.   Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in the flow control industry with the ability to understand valve applications and a related level of understanding of fluid mechanics and electro-mechanical equipment.   Possesses knowledge of sales channels – distribution, contractor, end-user, specifying engineers, etc.   Project Management-Product Analyst skill set   Believes in customer-centric and data-driven product design processes   Ability and desire to learn quickly new business systems including PowerBI   Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint.   Familiarity with Commercial / Residential plumbing related to pressure reducing products and applications desired.   Voice-of-Customer: data collection, dissemination, and reporting a plus.   Multi-tasking skills a must   Travel 15-20%     General Applicable Company