Product Manager III - Access Point Expansion & Adjacensies

About the role

The Company

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation is a thriving, values-driven company focused on doing the right things. We’re a fast growing, publicly traded company (NYSE: ZWS), with an enduring reputation for integrity, giving back, and providing an engaging, inclusive environment where careers flourish and grow.

Named by Newsweek as One of America’s Most Responsible Companies and an Energage USA Top Workplace, at Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation, we never forget that our people are at the center of what makes us successful. They are the driving force behind our superior quality, product ingenuity, and exceptional customer experience. Our commitment to our people and their professional development is a recipe for success that has fueled our growth for over 100 years, as one of today’s leading international suppliers of plumbing and water delivery solutions.

Headquartered in Milwaukee, WI, Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation employs over 2800 employees worldwide, working from 24 locations across the U.S., China, Canada, Dubai, and Mexico, with sales offices available around the globe.  We hope you’ll visit our website and learn more about Zurn Elkay at zurnelkay.com.

If you’re ready to join a company where what you do makes a difference and you have pride in the work you are doing, talk to us about joining the Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation family!

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Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is seeking a highly customer-focused and solutions-oriented Product Manager - Access Point Expansion & Adjacencies to identify, validate, and build new growth platforms that expand Elkay’s reach wherever people access drinking water. The role focuses on product categories, applications, and vertical markets where Elkay has a credible right to win but does not serve fully or lead today.

This position will turn broad opportunity areas into focused growth strategies and executable roadmaps. Initial product ownership includes the Liv premium bottle filler family, identifying growth opportunities in non-institutional verticals.  In addition, this role has responsibility for Elkay’s outdoor hydration portfolio, and evaluating additional product adjacency strategies as part of the Drinking Water PLCM process. The individual should have an entrepreneurial mindset, capable of making compelling business cases to mobilize appropriate resources across the organization.

Reports to: Sr. Director, Product Management

Key Focus Areas

Growth Strategy

• Identify product, application, technology, and vertical adjacencies that can expand Elkay’s addressable market and increase hydration access points.

• Develop clear growth theses based on customer needs, market attractiveness, strategic fit, competitive intensity, channel access, and Elkay’s right to win.

• Create a prioritized multi-year adjacency roadmap that distinguishes near-term extensions from longer-term incubation opportunities.

Roadmap & Portfolio Strategy

• Own the product strategy for Liv across showroom, hospitality, multifamily, office, wellness, and related applications, including product, design, feature, finish, placement, and channel requirements.

• Develop the outdoor hydration strategy across parks, trails, campuses, stadiums, transit, recreation, and other public environments, including filtered and purpose-built outdoor solutions.

• Lead early-stage experiments, pilots, prototypes, and market tests that resolve the biggest commercial and technical uncertainties before full investment.

• Make fact-based go, no-go, partner, acquire, or defer recommendations and move approved opportunities into the NPD stage-gate process with clear requirements and success criteria.

• Evaluate additional PLCM adjacencies not yet fully defined.

Voice of Customer & Market Validation

• Define target segments, customers, decision makers, applications, and channels; quantify TAM, SAM, attainable revenue, margin potential, investment, and risk.

• Lead voice-of-customer and voice-of-sales research with architects, designers, owners, operators, distributors, representatives, contractors, and end users.

• Assess competitors, substitutes, technology requirements, codes, specifications, buying criteria, service models, and go-to-market barriers before recommending investment.

Cross Functional Leadership

• Lead cross-functional teams from opportunity definition through feasibility, validation, launch, implementation, and continuous improvement. 

• Serve as a senior product expert for legacy applications, retrofit selection, replacement guidance, and escalated field or customer issues. 

• Develop practical training for internal teams, sales representatives, distributors, contractors, service partners, and customers. 

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Business, Marketing, Product Management, or a related field; MBA preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in product management, engineering, operations, marketing, or a related role, ideally within industrial, building product, durable-goods, or other manufactured products.
• Proven experience sizing new markets, conducting customer discovery, building business cases, and converting ambiguous opportunities into actionable strategies and roadmaps.
• Strong financial and analytical capability, including pricing, margin, cost, volume, savings, and return-on-investment analysis.
• Technical aptitude and the ability to translate product, engineering, installation, and service concepts into practical customer value.
• Excellent communication, prioritization, project leadership, and influencing skills across commercial and operational functions.
• Ability to travel to manufacturing facilities, customers, channel partners, and industry events as business needs require.

The compensation range identified below are a good faith estimate of the salary expected to be paid as performed from these locations. Actual salaries may vary based on compensable factors including but not limited to skillset, experience, education and training, and other relevant business and organizational factors. Most candidates will start in the lower half of the range.

The Salary Range: $130,000 - 180,000

Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

Total Rewards and Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, AD&D, and Life Insurance
• Matching 401(k) Contribution
• Health Savings Account
• Up to 3 weeks starting Vacation (may increase with tenure)
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Annual Bonus Eligibility
• Educational Reimbursement
• Matching Gift Program
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan – purchase company stock at a discount!

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Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran