Product Manager

Position Description: At a Glance Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Product Manager to join the Lighting Sector Team in Union City, CA.
As Product Manager, you will guide the product development life cycle from cradle to grave by identifying potential products; conducting market research; generating product requirements; determining specifications, production timetables, and facilitate plans for product introduction.
This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company to improving or developing processes for onboarding new technologies.
You will build products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and industry experts.
This person will possess a unique blend of business, people and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.
Communicate with all areas of the company.
Communication is critical in the role of Product Manager.
This person will be tasked with defining, developing and managing products and must engage teams in every aspect of the development process.
This person will be the expert and champion both internally and externally for your products and will be required to communicate the product line’s values.
This person will be required to use your interpersonal skills to influence team members across multiple functions.
What Will You Do? Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers.
Listening to key voices in the industry.
Driving the development and execution of a product solution across all cross-functional teams from market requirements through launch.
Supporting additional strategic efforts within the company.
Qualifications: Required Skills Engineering, Marketing or Business degree.
Minimum 3 years of marketing,product management or engineering experience.
Preferred Skills: Strong interpersonal skills.
Previous product,project/ program management or product marketing experience a plus.
Excellent communicator and listener.
This position requires travel to customer and non-customer sites in (10%).
Knowledgeable in building controls and/or lighting highly valued.
Company Info: About Legrand Every single day, Legrand brings power, light and data to millions of spaces around the world.
Legrand is a global, publicly-traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR) with 36,000 employees worldwide, a market cap of $16B, revenue of more than $5 billion, with products sold in 180 countries.
Legrand is listed on the Forbes Global 2000 as one of the world’s best employers.
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About Legrand North and Central America Legrand North and Central America (LNCA) employs over 5,000 associates in 60 locations, working in 6 product categories (Electrical Wiring Systems, Building Control Systems, AV, Data Communications, Power Distribution and Control, and Lighting).
LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage.
LNCA offers distinctive benefits like high employer 401K match, above-benchmark paid maternity leave, paid time off to volunteer, and an active women’s network.
LNCA is an employee-centered, growth company with tremendous opportunity.
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About Legrand’s Lighting Sector Through Pinnacle, Finelite, and OCL, Legrand designs and manufactures high performance, environmentally sustainable lighting solutions and products for commercial, educational and healthcare facilities.
We work with leading architects and contractors to supply systems and products.
We employ a talented group of lighting engineers and designers who work with the latest technologies, using cutting-edge tools to create fixtures which are unique and built to last.
Our products offer the design professional a complete palette of integrated products that breathe life into architectural spaces for design that lasts.
Legrand’s specification grade products are suited for a broad range of applications, and the integrated product line allows designers to create multi-level lighting scenarios using various luminaires from an extensive offering.
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