Director, Product Management & Marketing

At a Glance

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Director, Product Management & Marketing to join the Kenall Lighting Team in Kenosha, WI. The Sr. Director is responsible for day-to-day operations of the product management and marketing departments. Responsible for business growth strategy, new product pipeline, portfolio management, external marketing, and commercialization. Ensure that departments in scope are running smoothly, efficiently, and profitably. Serve as a critical advisor to the business president on business operational issues and opportunities.

What Will You Do?

• Develop an organizational growth strategy to meet or exceed revenue and profitability goals. Including aspiration, vertical markets, key customers and geographies, enablement, execution, and reporting.
• Develop and implement business infrastructure, systems, processes, and controls in complete alignment with organizational goals and strategies.
• Optimizes business processes, implements effectiveness measures, and drives process efficiencies.
• Manage department budgets, staffing, and priorities, and execute other day-to-day management activities.
• Implement and manage the Legrand Way offer creation process.
• Ensure successful launches of new products and services from ideation through the entire product life cycle.
• Build and manage a team of product managers responsible for creating product roadmaps for their respective verticals while ensuring products and features exceed customer expectations.
• Plan and implement a comprehensive marketing program for clients and targeted prospects to include all relevant forms of marketing communication.
• Recommend Channel and Agency Partner alignment strategy.
• Responsible for all other strategic initiatives as identified by business.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Marketing, Sales, or Business Administration. Sales and Product Management experience preferred.

Experience: 10+ years in the commercial electrical industry. Lighting and or lighting controls experience preferred. Sales and Production Management experience preferred.

Skills/ Knowledge/ Abilities:

• Extensive knowledge of the electrical market and sales channels within the market.
• Ability to provide vision and leadership to each functional department.
• Demonstrated capability to interface and maintain effective relationships with all departments and employees in a team-oriented environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams while successfully developing earlier-career staff members.
• Strategic, visionary, creative thinker, can attract and manage creative people and create powerful, positive branding, messaging, etc.
• Positive demeanor, team player; understanding people and motivations; provides leadership to Marketing; effective management, development, and satisfaction of direct reports.
• Ability to coach staff members on the desired behaviors of the business.
• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.

Success Measurements:

• Successful marketing and product strategies that achieve annual sales and marketing goals.
• Brand management that results in continued growth in market share and product adoption for both existing products and new areas of investment.
• The development of new approaches and new products that distinguish the offer in the market and with external partners.
• Strategic alignment across all functions to enable to meet or exceed revenue and profitability goals.
• Becoming the customer's preference within the goals of the business growth strategy
• Reducing business operational overhead while improving customer experience

About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR). For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com/en

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us 

About Legrand’s Lighting Sector

Legrand’s Lighting Sector consists of five lighting brands; Pinnacle, Finelite, Focal Point, and OCL which focus on architectural, decorative, and downlighting and Kenall which focuses on lighting for demanding environments.  We employ a talented group of employees that love lighting to design and manufacture high performance, energy efficient LED lighting solutions for applications in commercial, educational, healthcare, as well as challenging environments such as tunnels and correctional facilities.  With an eye toward sustainable design, our focus is on specification-oriented products and solutions that meet the functional needs of spaces while working in harmony with the designer’s vision for those spaces. We work with architects, engineers, and contractors to supply lighting built specifically for their client’s projects.   

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