Product Manager

Your Job

The Product Manager for Koch Agronomic Services is responsible for defining and executing the strategy for a portfolio of agronomic products and services-translating customer needs and market insights into differentiated positioning, pricing, and go-to-market plans that drive profitable growth.

This role partners closely with Sales, R&D, Agronomy, and Communications to advance products through the commercialization (stage-gate) process and ensure successful launches.

The Product Manager applies strong economic thinking to build business cases and make data-informed tradeoffs, and regularly engages customers to test assumptions and continuously improve the offering.

A successful candidate will be:


* Highly collaborative across multifunctional teams and external business partners.


* A strong written and oral communicator with proven ability to think conceptually and pragmatically; capable of communicating with broad audiences on strategic and operational topics.


* Proactive in their work style; having the ability to work independently and manage cross-functional activities with limited oversight; comfortable working in and bringing structure to ambiguous environments.


* Able to translate customer and market insights into actionable plans.


* Well organized with strong attention to detail.


* Proactively sharing knowledge and ideas; providing and seeking challenge; developing knowledge networks; and building trusted relationships.


* Curious and a continuous learner; effectively leveraging AI tools to improve analysis, communication, and decision-making.

Our Team

This role will report to the Senior Product Manager and will be based at our headquarters in Wichita, KS with up to 25% travel.

What You Will Do


* Develops and executes a long-term strategic plan for their respective product portfolio.


* Builds and analyzes current market size, market potential, and ability to win.

Gathers voice of customer, market analytics, and industry trends, and projects how these forces will impact the product.


* Applies strong economic-thinking skills to prepare product pro formas, pricing analyses, and product positioning.


* Manages projects through the commercialization/stage-gate process.


* Partners with Sales to develop and execute channel strategies.


* Works closely with R&D, Agronomy, Sales, and Communications to drive product positioning and messaging.


* Represents the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* 2+ years of professional work experience


* Experience in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

What Will Put You Ahead


* Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Economics, Finance, Marketing or a related field


* Product Marketing experience


* Experience in Agriculture

This role is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship.

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