Title:  Principal, Product Management

Job Title: Principal, Product Management

Job Code: 37733

Job Location: Londonderry, NH

Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The L3Harris Integrated Vision Solutions Sector is seeking a Product Manager to provide leadership for our night vision goggle-based product lines. This role is responsible for managing the cost and schedule requirements of a product line offering through all phases from proposal to fulfillment. The product manager analyzes and designs technical product enhancements, integrating the work of research and development, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and service functions for all or part of a new or potential product offerings.

The candidate will be expected to develop and maintain strong working relationships with globally dispersed colleagues and customers. L3Harris product managers provide strategic technical consultation to field personnel and customers during the early life cycle of new product offerings. Accountable for their products’ complete lifecycle, the product manager delivers business growth strategies through product line innovation by planning, preparing, and presenting strategies for product introduction, improvement, and sustainment. The product manager is highly cross-functional and participates in the marketing, forecasting, and financial aspects of the product offering. This role will be based in Londonderry, NH.  

Essential Functions:

• Utilizes broad experience across multiple job areas to manage large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization with minimal oversight and guidance.
• Communicates within and outside of the organization to influence leadership to accept new practices, approaches, and concepts. Champions the adoption of new systems, concepts, or technologies. Recommends tactics and strategies that directly impact the achievement of overall business or functional results.
• Control cost and schedule performance in collaboration with supply chain, operations, quality, and other functions to drive customer value; driving a culture of continuous improvement.
• Partner with business development and strategy to conduct market assessments and define market requirements which inform long term product development and product life cycle roadmaps from initial concept through sustainment.  
• Shape product offerings and customer relationships, pricing strategy, catalog part numbers, revenue and cost targets based on the approved product business cases.  Support trade shows, customer demonstrations and sales presentations.
  
• Drive the development and evaluation of business cases to secure investments including capital expenditures, research and development, and long lead material procurements. Steer investments in support of defined product roadmap strategy. 
• Contributes to the growth of our system offerings by collaborating across the enterprise to integrate IVS Night Vision with other L3Harris technologies within the tactical battlefield.
• Manage the product line projects through checkpoint reviews, engineering reconciliation and launch dates for on time delivery.  
• Ability to travel up 25% or more, including international travel as needed
• Ability to obtain US Security Clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Deomonstrated ability to lead or influence large organizations under minimal guidance.
• Effective communicator with the ability to explain and interpret technical product information, operational processes, practices, and procedures to diverse audiences.
• Experienced in supporting product life cycle processes, practices, and procedures to ensure product integrity and performance.
• Demonstrated success in achieving operational targets for specific programs and projects, contributing significantly to departmental outcomes.
• Experience in sales and front-end business operations, including effective face-to-face customer interactions to understand needs and deliver tailored solutions.
• Familiarity with night vision device technology and market dynamics.

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