Senior Product Manager

About Acuity Inc.

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals. Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Product Manager to manage our Lithonia Lighting® Troffer product category. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading and driving the planning, execution, and delivery of assigned NPD projects, ensuring the projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of the stakeholders while leading and managing the product portfolio. This will enable us to accelerate sales growth, product vitality, and margin improvements across assigned categories! This role reports to the Vice President of Product Management for the Lithonia Lighting lay-in category.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• Understand customer base, applications, and competitors for assigned categories as needed to develop competitive solutions and generate sales growth.
• Be the product champion with external partners like customers, sales, and internal partners like engineering, marketing, supply chain, and finance.
• Define product roadmap, and effectively define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, resource allocation, and risk management strategies.
• Manage project expectations while providing timely escalation for product deviations as needed to mitigate quality and/or supply chain risks.
• Maintain regular communication with stakeholders including timely updates on project status, milestones, and any changes to the project plan.
• Work with company support teams including product support, sourcing, manufacturing, engineering, customer service, and sales to support product categories and new product launches.
• Effectively and proactively manage the product category portfolio with margin, mix, volume, product positioning, determine discontinuations where needed, to drive the overall productivity and profitability of the product category.
• Present and provide product training for assigned product categories and other adjacent categories for all support teams, channel partners, and customers.
• Lead, inspire, and influence the team to work according to the product development system with phase gates, milestones, and predefined deliverables.
• Have a basic knowledge of manufacturing processes and techniques that allows one to lead and challenge the team.
• Drive KPI compliance with the team, including but not limited to phase gate compliance and performance tracking of productivity, margins, quality, ship promise compliance, inventory, and sales growth.

Skills And Minimum Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, marketing, or a related field. MBA is a plus.
• 5+ years of product management in electrical manufacturing, durable goods, preferably within the lighting industry.
• Strong communicator and team player.
• Strong understanding of product development life cycle.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks effectively.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Proficiency in project management tools and software.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• 5+ years of product management experience in the lighting industry.
• Knowledge of lighting industry sales channels, key influencers, and primary decision makers.
• Direct knowledge of commercial indoor lighting products, applications, and key competitors.

Travel Requirements

1-20%

Diversity and Equal Opportunity

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodation for Applicants with Disabilities

As an equal opportunity employer, Acuity Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in its application process for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you have difficulty using our online system due to a disability and need an accommodation, you may contact us at (770) 922-9000, select option 4. Please clearly indicate what type of accommodation you are requesting and for what requisition.

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Key skills/competency

Product Management, NPD Projects, Product Portfolio, Sales Growth, Market Share, Product Development Lifecycle, Project Management, Stakeholder Communication, Manufacturing Processes, KPI Compliance