Product Manager

Overview

Job Title: Product Manager

Reports To: Director of Business Development

Direct reports: None

Key relationships: Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and Operations

Role

Purpose:

The Product Manager is the business owner of assigned product families and industries. This role is responsible for defining long-term product direction, building, and maintaining multi-year product roadmaps, and ensuring successful execution of new product development and launches. The Product Manager owns sales growth, margin performance, and product lifecycle decisions for their product lines while serving as the primary link between market needs and Vista’s engineering, operations, and sales teams.

This role requires a highly accountable, hands-on leader who can drive both strategy and execution in a manufacturing environment.

• Knowledge of manufacturing environments and OEM customer requirements
• Understanding of long-term product planning, road mapping, and portfolio development
• Understanding of product development, project management, and launch execution
• Knowledge of pricing, costing, margin analysis, and quoting practices
• Familiarity with ERP systems, BOM structures, and production workflows
• Ability to read technical drawings and product specifications
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational, planning, and follow-through skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data analysis

• Ownership mentality and accountability for results
• Strategic thinking balanced with hands-on execution
• Strong project and timeline management
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority
• Customer-focused problem solving
• Data-driven decision making
• Bias toward action and execution
• High attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple priorities

• Own assigned industries and product families including long-term product direction, roadmap planning, and growth strategy
• Build and maintain multi-year product roadmaps aligned to market needs and Vista business objectives
• Own sales growth, pricing strategy, margin performance, and forecasting for assigned product lines
• Lead cross-functional product development and launch execution
• Translate customer and market needs into clear product requirements
• Maintain product specifications, cost targets, and launch readiness
• Support quoting, pricing strategies, and margin protection
• Facilitate cross-functional project meetings and timeline management
• Serve as voice of customer for assigned industries and product families
• Support Sales and Marketing with product training, positioning, and application guidance
• Identify product improvements, cost reductions, and product cleanup opportunities.

• Sales growth to target for assigned industries and product families
• On-time and successful product launches
• Gross margin performance vs. targets
• Accuracy of product forecasts
• Customer satisfaction and quality performance

This role requires a flexible, adaptable individual ready to tackle various challenges in a dynamic environment. Training will be provided as needed to fill skill gaps, with a focus on achieving excellence in all areas of product management.