Product Development Manager, Strapping Systems
This role owns product leadership and technical leadership for the Samuel Automation Strapping Systems portfolio. The position owns sustaining engineering, continuous improvement, and new product development. You will translate market and customer needs into competitive and scalable product platforms while ensuring product design quality, standardization, and engineering excellence.
One function of this role is to serve as the primary bridge between Samuel Packaging Systems Group (PSG) product management and Samuel Automation’s (SAI’s) engineering teams to deliver repeatable, competitive, and commercially successful strapping solutions. You must balance hands-on technical design with a people-first approach to leadership. By instilling a growth mindset within your team, you will empower them to navigate ambiguity, solve complex engineering challenges, and consistently deliver high-quality systems for our customers.
What You Will Be Accountable For
Product Strategy, Definition & Requirements
\- Establish and own Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) in collaboration with PSG Product Management.
\- Translate customer, market, and business needs into actionable requirements.
\- Maintain traceability from requirements through design, validation, and release.
\- Own product roadmaps, standardization strategies, product datasheets, and platform scalability initiatives.
\- Provide competitive and market intelligence to support product direction.
New Product Development (NPD) & Introduction (NPI)
\- Lead NPD and NPI activities and milestone governance for new strapping products.
\- Ensure technical reviews, risk assessments, validation plans, and release criteria are comple...
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