Chief Product Officer

**Key Responsibilities**

Strategy
- Develop and execute growth strategy for Esko, by identifying attractive target segments, planning product innovations and portfolio improvements, developing partnerships with external companies
- Work with sales, and finance to collect relevant data in support of Strat plan; own market share segmentation process
- Track competitor news and financial results and keep evergreen perspective on evolution of packaging and color market
- Support inorganic business development (potential acquisitions, partnerships) -partner with the President to develop business cases for M&A activities, scouts potential acquisition target

Portfolio Management
- Define and execute on product roadmap
- Establish customer requirements, articulate clear product positioning, and value proposition, set priorities for the hardware and software development, work towards product costs optimization and portfolio standardization, while maintaining regulatory & quality compliance.
- Together with R&D and other functions achieve product development milestones and ensure the highest quality and customer satisfaction through comprehensive validation of new products against customer use cases and market needs.
- Support global and regional marketing teams to prepare product launches.

Growth Execution
- Profitable business growth
- Measure of performance -meet business growth and profitability
- Align budget planning in alignment with annual strategic plan
- Measure of performance -market share growth
- Support the objective analysis of potential market opportunities. Support business plans and distribution / channel strategies for existing and new product lines, in alignment with the market’s buying preferences.
- Conduct win/loss analysis and business reviews with the commercial leaders to understand and optimize commercial performance.
- Develop effective Go-to Market strategies and programs with commercial leaders, and global marketing
- Conduct competitive analysis on strategic and operational level, consolidate information from diverse internal and external sources into one coherent picture. Develop and implement a strategy for winning against the competition.

Innovation
- Discover needs in the market by interviewing customers. Also, identifying most important market, technology, and workflow trends to incorporate into product roadmap.
- Measure of performance -global revenue achievement NPIs, funnel against target
- Analyze product portfolio positioning and pricing, based on regional market situation.
- Plan, execute and measure effectiveness of strategic launches. Ensure commercial readiness and success of NPIs, coordinating and integrating all required global and local partners and workstreams
- Manage proactive communications with commercial leaders and key stakeholders from strategy to execution.

Build and manage a best-in-class Global Product management team
- Recruit and hire best in class talent
- Integrate, Engage and Develop the team to drive and execute on marketing objectives
- Identify and build a talent succession pipeline
- Brings high emotional intelligence to the role -working collaboratively with associates and customers;
- Consistently sets a high bar for “what good looks like” and can motivate his/her direct reports and broader team to achieve superior results;
- Ability to plan and manage at both strategic and operational levels. Is both process and detail oriented -is committed in execution to ensure full value is achieved from initiatives.
- Demonstrated results in gaining share and driving above-market growth across global markets
- Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across cultures and staff to create a results-driven team-oriented environment.
- Proven track record building, leading, motivating and developing teams and building a world class marketing and product management organization.
- Experience working in a lean / kaizen culture, with a track record of utilizing these methodologies in a commercial setting
- Works effectively in matrixed organizations, showing the right balance between conviction of key ideas he/she wants to champion and sufficient flexibility to adapt to change and redirect resources effectively and appropriately.
- Excellent conceptual skills demonstrated through focused, succinct communication.
- High degree of confidence, assertiveness and mental resilience.
- Credibility through demonstrated expertise; presence and stature to generate respect, trust and a positive image for the organization.
- The highest levels of personal and professional integrity and ethics, and unquestioned integrity in each of his/her initiatives.

**US ONLY**:
The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but