Product Marketing Manager

If you enjoy turning market insight into profitable growth and partnering across commercial, engineering, and global teams, this is an opportunity to make a real impact. Responsibilities Lead product management activities for the Application Center and execute product segment strategies that drive long-term profitable growth. Develop and maintain strategic plans for Application Center business segments and translate them into actionable priorities. Conduct market, customer, and competitor analysis to identify trends and uncover new business opportunities. Manage forecasting and annual sales planning, including maintaining sales forecasts across sites, product lines, and markets. Lead costing and pricing activities while identifying and driving margin improvement initiatives. Partner with customers and internal teams by coordinating visits, presentations, and cross-functional commercial activities globally. Promote Freudenberg Guiding Principles while supporting safety, quality, environmental compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives. Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; MBA preferred. Minimum of five years of industry or product management experience, ideally within manufacturing or technical sales environments. Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with large data sets, forecasting, and market insights. Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to collaborate across all organizational levels and with external partners. Ability to read product drawings and understand product costing to support pricing and business decisions. Proven ability to manage multiple priorities while remaining self-motivated and team-oriented. Willingness to travel domestically and internationally; experience with Lean/Six Sigma preferred; familiarity with QAD and Sales Data Warehouse a plus.