Job Description
Senior Product Manager – Pumps & Fluid Handling
Location: Crawfordsville, IN - Fully Onsite
Salary: $135,000–$145,000 + 15% Bonus
Travel: Up to 30%
Salary: $135,000–$145,000 + 15% Bonus
Travel: Up to 30%
Sterling Engineering is partnering with a leading industrial manufacturer to hire a Senior Product Manager focused on pumps and fluid handling technologies. This is a strategic leadership opportunity to own product portfolio performance, drive new product development, and identify growth opportunities across agricultural and industrial markets.
The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen, industry knowledge, and technical understanding to drive product strategy, profitability, and innovation.
Key Requirement
Candidates must demonstrate at least TWO of the following THREE qualifications:
- Business Acumen: Experience with product strategy, financial performance, pricing, profitability, business cases, and market growth.
- Industry Knowledge: Experience with pumps, fluid handling, flow control, industrial equipment, agricultural equipment, or related engineered products.
- Technical Understanding: Ability to understand engineered products, collaborate with Engineering, and translate technical requirements into commercially successful solutions.
What You'll Do
- Own product portfolio strategy, profitability, market positioning, and multi-year product roadmaps.
- Identify new market opportunities through customer feedback, competitive research, and industry trends.
- Lead new product development initiatives from concept through commercialization.
- Develop business cases, pricing strategies, and product launch plans.
- Manage portfolio revenue, gross margins, market share, and return on investment.
- Partner with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality.
- Conduct customer visits and gather Voice of Customer (VOC) insights to guide product development.
- Identify cost-reduction opportunities, optimize pricing, and improve product profitability.
- Lead SKU rationalization and portfolio optimization using 80/20 principles.
- Support sales teams with product training, competitive positioning, and technical knowledge.
- Drive strategic initiatives and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, Supply Chain, or related field.
- 7–10 years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, Business Development, Marketing, or a related industrial manufacturing function.
- Experience with engineered products, pumps, fluid handling, flow control, industrial equipment, or agricultural equipment preferred.
- Proven experience developing business cases and supporting new product launches.
- Strong understanding of product profitability, pricing, margins, and market growth.
- Experience working across Engineering, Sales, Operations, and other manufacturing functions.
- Strong analytical, strategic planning, communication, and leadership skills.
- Ability to translate customer needs into product strategies and actionable business opportunities.
- Comfortable traveling up to 30%.
- Ability to work fully onsite.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
- $135K–$145K base salary + 15% bonus.
- Opportunity to own and influence a significant industrial product portfolio.
- Work with established products serving agricultural and industrial markets.
- Lead product innovation, commercialization, and strategic growth initiatives.
- Join a stable, established industrial manufacturing organization.
- Relocation assistance may be considered for highly qualified industry experts.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Crawfordsville, IN |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $135,000–$145,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
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