Senior Manager Product Lifecycle Management

Req ID: 12573

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference 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. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

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. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com.

Work location:

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

Job Summary

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, data flows, and they convert this to manageable projects, milestones and outcomes, workstreams 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 framing, 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 product manager role within Engineering. The initial focus of this leader will be Product Lifecycle Management.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

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. Holds the vision while enabling flexibility for delivery teams
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, product delivery in the target state
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. Work closely with the Product management team to measure adoption, productivity and satisfaction with PLM capabilities and work with the tech team to translate user input to product backlog for improvements
Defining and prioritizing the development and implementation of PLM capabilities to meet business needs across ABL, AIS and Tech functions. Align roadmap and sequencing with digital transformation and business growth and productivity goals
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 and are well understood from change management perspective. Work with business to align work processes and define data in service delivery to match standard functionality
Lead the change management, working with the team to plan release of capabilities, communications, training and transition to enable new ways of working. Understanding change implications at a sufficient level of detail for processes, end to end data flows, service level agreements, user satisfaction and experience to help the team navigate watch outs, anticipate and mitigate risk and disruption.
Synthesizing insights from traffic patterns and user requests to continuously improve technology and business processes, and work with the team to enable self-service and automate transaction processing
Facilitates weekly and bi-weekly syncs across workstreams and with key stakeholders to report progress, drive accountability, problem solve blockers, and create transparency for risks ahead of time. Help the team frame trade-offs, keep record of key decisions, facilitate escalation as needed.
Sets operating rhythms (steering committees, touchpoints, cross-functional reviews) and shares clear meeting goals and outputs, sets agenda, keeps the notes on key takeaways and follows up on actions as needed
Overseeing product backlog, collaborating with teams to enhance platform capabilities for continuous improvement after the initial release of PLM

Other

Success in this role requires a unique combination of skills and character traits which include:

Ability to holistically view and understand Acuity's ecosystems and focus on delivering technology that drives impact
Deep leadership and product strategy experience that will inspire and influence peers, direct and indirect reports, partners and stakeholders so they're part of the journey with you
Relevant experience working with tech product and engineering teams
A passion for intuitive, easy to use products designed to reduce cognitive load and improve processes. Empathy for users which results in a willingness to immerse yourself in feedback to distill insights and get to the root of problems
A desire to drive measurable results in terms of operating efficiency or income. A corresponding data-driven mindset that can clearly identify, articulate, and quantify the levers that will improve your product(s)
Familiarity with digital enablement thinking. An aptitude for diving into the interconnectedness of marketing, sales, supply chain, inventory, and financial systems as part of building robust and scalable product(s)
An unwavering personal integrity and work ethic, you believe in mission driven organizations that serve a broader purpose. You want to work on products that improve peoples' lives

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

10+ years of experience in complex program or product management role
Knowledge of product engineering space, product lifecycle management principles, processes, and best practice preferred
Strong leadership and people management skills to lead and motivate teams, drive collaboration, and make decisions that impact the product lifecycle and master data domains
Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and their role in managing master data end to end
Experience with Lighting or other relevant manufacturing involving supply chain, order fulfillment including products, engineering, competitors, trends, and customer needs
Demonstrated track record of establishing digital strategy, deploying new digital capabilities that fundamentally change business process, using data and analysis to support strategy and prioritization, and day to day product execution
A track record of driving innovation and bringing new products or features to market successfully throughout the product lifecycle
Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to work well with highly cross-functional teams
Data driven mindset, which includes analytical skills to analyze data, market trends, and product performance throughout the lifecycle to make informed decisions
Strong communication skills in both written and verbal forms

Physical Requirements

Sedentary Work

Travel Requirements

1-20%

The range for this position is $104,000 to $187,000. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant’s experience and geographic location. Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role. For a list of our benefits, click here.

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

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