Senior Manager Product Lifecycle Management

Senior Manager Product Lifecycle Management

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Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market‑leading industrial technology company that uses technology to solve problems in lighting, building management, audio‑video and control platforms. Through its two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture and bring products and services to market that make valuable differences 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.

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.

Work location:

This position may be based anywhere in the United States and includes travel as part of the responsibilities.

This role leads strategic transformation initiatives that involve a complex, interconnected set of changes and investments across business process, policies, workflows and digital capabilities. The Senior Manager oversees multiple, interrelated efforts to ensure they align with and deliver upon clear and measurable business objectives.

They work with leadership to frame the “art of the possible” vision, operating model, solution architecture and change management needed to achieve the objective. They drive cross‑team collaboration to outline the end‑to‑end capabilities, workflows and data flows, converting this to manageable projects, milestones and outcomes and work streams and roadmaps.

The successful candidate will coordinate across business and technical teams, manage dependencies, mitigate risks and provide oversight to ensure successful program delivery and outcomes. The role will work closely with stakeholders, including executives, project managers and external partners, to align outcomes with organizational goals. The role requires strong leadership, strategic planning, problem structuring and domain expertise to drive large‑scale initiatives.

The role will report to the Head of the Transformation Office with strong alignment to the Head of Engineering and the product manager role within Engineering. The initial focus of this leader will be Product Lifecycle Management.

• Driving strategic vision and maximizing platform value, focusing on improving business workflows leveraging the digital and data capabilities of PLM and ensuring adoption of the PLM digital capabilities.
• Proactively define scope, success criteria and delivery milestones in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Working with the business and product teams to define the target state for product lifecycle management with deep understanding of the product engineering domain and how the digital capabilities will enable workflows, SLAs and product delivery.
• Working across business and technology stakeholders and across Luminaires, Electronics and AIS to ensure alignment on vision, roadmap, requirements, release strategy and roll‑out plans and roadmap.
• Defining and prioritizing the development and implementation of PLM capabilities to meet business needs across ABL, AIS and Tech functions.
• Working with the product team to act as a bridge between stakeholders and engineering, ensuring priorities and requirements are well‑defined and aligned with business objectives.
• Lead change management, working with the team to plan release of capabilities, communications, training and transition to enable new ways of working.
• Synthesizing insights from traffic patterns and user requests to continuously improve technology and business processes.
• Facilitating weekly and bi‑weekly syncs across work streams and with key stakeholders to report progress, drive accountability, problem‑solve blockers and create transparency.
• Setting operating rhythms (steering committees, touchpoints, cross‑functional reviews) and sharing…