Job Description

• Be visionary

At FLIR, we have a simple but ambitious mission: to develop market-leading thermal and sensing technologies which enhance everyday life. From saving energy, to saving lives FLIR is making a real difference in our world.

Our products are used in a wide array of situations to rescue people in danger, detect criminals, conserve energy, navigate safely, provide security around the globe, and protect our environment.

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Summary:

Team leader responsible for worldwide product management of the FLIR machine vision product families to achieve revenue and margin growth targets.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develops differentiated product and portfolio strategy to deliver superior value to customers and FLIR
• Creates and maintains FLIR machine vision 5-year product roadmap
• Drives product solutions by understanding the machine vision competitive landscape and value proposition for FLIR machine vision solutions. Recommends the nature and scope of present and future product lines by developing business cases, appraising new product ideas, and preparing Market Requirements Documents (MRD)
• Business Planning: Brings new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with engineering and manufacturing
• Interacts effectively with customers and sales to hone product plans
• Builds collaborative partnerships with sales team to develop and execute strategies to grow product market share.
• A trusted customer advisor and thought leader. Prepares and presents compelling customer and conference presentations
• Manages existing machine vision camera portfolio: pricing, margin, forecasting, allocation, and promotion
• Assesses market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products
• Determines product pricing by accessing value to customer, utilizing market research data, reviewing production, sales costs and anticipating volumes
• Provides information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses, answering questions and requests
• Ensures smooth cross-functional communications and offer leadership and direction to others within the Product Team and Senior Management

Job Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of machine vision industry experience
• BS Engineering or BA Physics
• Product management work experience
• Leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to take the initiative, build consensus and drive results up, down and across a distributed organization.
• Able to speak, read, and write in English. Advanced Verbal/Written skills- can understand and explain highly complicated topics in a simple way.
• Ability to travel domestically/internationally up to 25%

Preferred:

• MS Engineering or MBA
• Strong understanding of the machine vision sensor and other supplier roadmaps and capbilities
• Systems engineering work experience
• Project management work experience

FLIR and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

FLIR is an equal opportunity employer.