Product Manager - Industrial Blowers & Vac Truck

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Job Title
: Product Manager
Location
: Connersville, IN (on-site)

About Us

Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies - from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers - to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we're driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.

Job Overview:

For over a century, Ingersoll Rand's Roots Blower brand has powered progress-earning a global reputation for innovation, reliability, and performance. As a market leader with a mature, high-performing product line, we're expanding in Connersville and seeking a Product Manager ready to build on this legacy and shape its next chapter. Supported by a company committed to continuous investment and improvement, this role offers the chance to make a real impact. Whether you're an experienced Product Manager seeking greater influence or early in your career and eager for fast-paced growth, this is a unique opportunity to lead with purpose.

You'll combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution to drive key initiatives forward. At Ingersoll Rand, Product Management is a respected function-equipped with the authority and backing to deliver real change in a dynamic environment where expectations are high and results matter. In this role, you'll help lead strategy, development, and management of our Industrial Blowers and Vacuum Truck product lines within the Process Flow Technologies portfolio-including iconic brands like Roots, Hibon, and Fruitland. You'll focus on driving growth and improving margins, with the potential to manage and develop product specialists. Success requires clear communication, a sharp understanding of market dynamics, and strong collaboration across teams-sales, distribution, customer care, operations, procurement, and engineering-to turn product vision into reality.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic:
  Develops, recommends, and implements strategic action plans for growth and profitability. Creates long and short-range strategic programs and marketing plans that identifies new market segments, growth opportunity, technologies, and creates new program development business plans that support overall strategic goals.
  
  
• Product
  : Has strong product knowledge and understanding of how products function in their applications. Understand key advantages of products or programs and how these benefit the customer. Maintains continuous surveillance, evaluation and files of competitive products including function, performance, pricing, and marketing techniques through interaction with sales, end users, and other sources.
  
  
• Operational:
  Works within a cross functional team in the specification, development, and commercialization of innovative products, services or programs. Ensure the programs are launching into the market and the commercial and operational plans support the expected outcomes. Provides input on forecast, adoption of plans and financial performance monthly to the manufacturing plants.
  
  
• Sales Collateral:
  Develop and implementation of promotional programs, literature, sales aids, sales training programs and advertising requirements for specific product lines. Interface with the Demand Generation team on setting campaign and tradeshow strategies for the various brands.
  
  
• Training:
  Develop and implement value proposition for product line and creates and maintains training programs for outside sales, customer care, customers and distribution partners.
  
  
• Communication/Reporting:
  Develop presentations, reports and metrics on the overall performance and profitability of product programs and effectively presents and communicates this information to management. Ownership of financials including but not limited to orders, revenue, margin, and price realization.
  
  
• Talent Development:
  Manages and develops Product Specialists that support the growth initiatives and functions listed above.
  
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or engineering (or international equivalent Familiarity with Microsoft Excel
  
  
• 5-10 years of Product Management, Marketing, Program Management, or Applications/ Proposal Engineering experience
  
  

Core Competencies:

• Excellent communication, program development and analytical skills required, with an emphasis on attention to detail. Clear and concise communicator (both oral and written)
  
  
• The candidate should be self-motivated and equipped to work on multiple projects or initiatives simultaneously. Ability to resolve conflict, to apply critical thinking to solve problems and to escalate when needed
  
  
• The ability to develop strong working relationships with all levels of the organization as well as distributors and customers is critical to success in this position.
  
  
• In addition to the above, success in this position is determined by the drive and ability to execute day-to-day tasks, programs, projects, along with strategic big-picture planning.
  
  

Preferences:

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Power Point and Office with strong analytical skills.
  
  
• Work experience in SAP preferred.
  
  
• Strong acumen in financial metrics and their strategic implications, enabling data-driven decision-making.
  
  
• Understands the commercial aspect when interfacing with customers to deliver a solution to meet their needs
  
  

Travel and Work Arrangements

• This position is based in Connersville, Indiana, with 10% travel.
  
  
• US Citizen or lawful Permanent Resident
  
  

What We Offer

At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership - taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.