Xylem
Sr. Product Lifecycle Excellence Manager
Charlotte, North Carolina · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$115k-$130kDetected 7 days ago
Product ManagementProduct StrategyStrategic CommunicationsSupply ChainProcurementERPPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
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About the role
- This role translates Product Management Excellence strategy into practical governance, standards, decision frameworks, metrics, and operating rhythms that improve portfolio focus, lifecycle discipline, and profitable growth.
- This is a hands-on enterprise builder role for a leader who combines strong product and portfolio judgment with 80/20 thinking, financial acumen, change leadership, and disciplined execution.
- Instead, they will equip and challenge business teams with a common lifecycle system, transparent data, and repeatable methods that help leaders make better trade-offs and act faster.
Responsibilities
- Build & standardize portfolio simplification and 80/20 lifecycle discipline
- Lead cross-functional adoption and continuous improvement
- Create practical standards, playbooks, templates, and review criteria that simplify work, improve consistency, and make lifecycle expectations easy to apply across diverse businesses.
- Baseline current practices, identify friction and gaps, prioritize improvements, and manage a phased roadmap toward a scalable future-state lifecycle operating model.
- Partner with segment product leaders to identify long-tail complexity, duplication, low-value variation, legacy offerings, and other opportunities to simplify while protecting customer commitments, revenue quality, service, and strategic capabilities.
- Develop common decision criteria for invest, grow, maintain, migrate, consolidate, harvest, and exit choices, including replacement and customer-transition considerations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, marketing, finance, operations, product management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience in product management, portfolio management, product lifecycle management, product operations, strategy, or a closely related role, with experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Experience applying 80/20, portfolio segmentation, product-line simplification, SKU rationalization, platform or variant reduction, or comparable complexity-management methods.
- Strong financial and analytical acumen, with the ability to connect product and portfolio choices to growth, margin, cost, working capital, productivity, and investment trade-offs.
- Excellent facilitation, stakeholder-management, executive communication, and change-leadership skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Master's degree, MBA, or technical graduate degree.
- Experience in an industrial, manufacturing, technology, water, or other complex global product environment with hardware, software, services, and installed-base considerations.
- Experience with product lifecycle management platforms, product master data, portfolio dashboards, ERP environments, business intelligence, or AI-enabled product workflows.
- To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- Clarify lifecycle stages, decision rights, required inputs, governance forums, escalation paths, and accountabilities while preserving segment and division ownership of product decisions.
- Required:
- Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end product or portfolio lifecycle decisions, including product strategy, development governance, launch, in-market performance, simplification, and end-of-life.
- Proven ability to create enterprise frameworks, governance, metrics, and operating rhythms that improve decision quality and adoption in a global matrixed organization.
- Ability to move between strategy and hands-on execution, manage multiple workstreams, and convert ambiguity into a practical roadmap and sustained operating discipline.
- Preferred
- Working knowledge of stage-gate or product development systems, value analysis/value engineering, design-to-value, cost-out, modularity, product platforms, and product-line strategy.
Compensation
- Connect product lifecycle activities to existing enterprise planning and operating rhythms, including portfolio strategy, long-range planning, annual operating planning, product development, productivity, and performance reviews.
Company info
- Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day.
- As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges.
- We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.
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