Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.

Strategy

• Attend trade shows, sales meetings, and dealer meetings to promote assigned product line.
• Provide information and training to dealers and sales personnel, highlighting features and competitive advantages of new and existing products within assigned product line to increase product knowledge and sales.
• Lead the new product development cycle by monitoring and supporting schedule management and communication is occurring for effective and proactive development of new products.
• Act as a voice of the customer by surveying customers and dealers for product requirements and market trends.
• Identify market potential of uncovered segments and customer groups.
• Guide engineering and product development from a voice of customer standpoint.
• Lead cross-functional teams through a well-defined Stage Gate process to deliver new products to market.
• Define and lead the strategy for gathering, analyzing, and applying industry, customer, dealer, and competitive information to identify product gaps, prioritize portfolio opportunities, and address market needs for assigned product lines.
• Lead a team of Product Managers to Discover and Define market requirements and business needs for assigned product lines.
• Grow and develop a highly functional and integrated strategy team.
• Lead segment definition and strategy for GPM and Kubota branded CE Attachments.
• Act as a voice of the customer by surveying customers and dealers for product requirements and market trends.
• Identify need for new product development and existing product improvements within assigned product line.
• Guide engineering and product development from a voice of customer standpoint.
• Provide application leadership and liaison to the Kubota power unit strategy definition through defined Stage Gate processes.

Product Strategy Leader