Product Manager III – Legacy & Retrofit Solutions, Drinking Water

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 – Legacy & Retrofit solutions to drive product strategy, development, and commercialization within the assigned product category. This role is the business owner for mature Drinking Water product platforms and the solutions that extend, simplify, modernize, and support the installed base. The role leads the lifecycle strategy for legacy products while building profitable growth through retrofit kits, conversion packages, replacement parts, accessories, and aftermarket programs.  This position balances customer continuity with portfolio discipline. The Product Manager develops has two reports and executes the 80/20, sustaining, cost-out, obsolescence, and supply-continuity roadmaps for assigned legacy platforms, while creating practical upgrade pathways that help customers move from unfiltered to filtered solutions and from aging equipment to current product platforms.

The successful candidate will combine commercial judgment, technical aptitude, financial analysis, and cross-functional leadership. The role works closely with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, Sales, Service, channel partners, and customers to improve lifecycle value, margins, customer experience, and execution.

Reports to: Sr. Director, Product Management

Key Focus Areas

Legacy Portfolio & Lifecycle Strategy

• Own the multi-year strategy for assigned legacy platforms, including invest, sustain, simplify, migrate, and discontinue decisions. 

• Monitor product health using sales, margin, quality, warranty, service, and supply data; develop transition plans that protect customers and revenue. 

• Maintain an executable roadmap for sustaining, compliance, obsolescence, supply continuity, and customer-support initiatives. 

Portfolio Simplification & Margin Improvement

• Lead 80/20 simplification, SKU and component rationalization, cost-out, standardization, and value-engineering initiatives. 

• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Sourcing, Supply Chain, and Finance to deliver validated savings, improve manufacturability, and reduce complexity without compromising performance or customer experience. 

• Track outcomes including gross margin, cost savings, SKU reduction, quality, service levels, and implementation timing. 

Retrofit Solutions & Aftermarket Growth

• Identify installed-base opportunities and develop retrofit kits, conversion packages, and upgrade solutions that make modernization more cost-effective and less labor-intensive than full replacement.
• Create pathways that move customers from unfiltered to filtered solutions and from aging legacy equipment to current Drinking Water platforms.
• Own the strategy and portfolio for replacement parts, repair kits, service kits, accessories, and recurring aftermarket offers associated with assigned platforms.
• Use installed-base, warranty, field-service, and order-history data to improve parts coverage, availability, discoverability, and attachment.

Business Case & Commercialization

• Evaluate customer demand, competitive alternatives, pricing, margin, revenue, investment, and risk; build business cases for leadership approval. 

• Lead positioning, pricing recommendations, sales enablement, technical content, channel readiness, launch, and post-launch performance reviews. 

• Create clear cross-references and conversion tools connecting historical purchases to recommended replacement, retrofit, or upgrade SKUs. 

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 owning a product portfolio and leading cross-functional initiatives from business case through commercialization or implementation.
• Experience with product lifecycle management, sustaining engineering, portfolio simplification, cost reduction, value engineering, or aftermarket strategy.
• 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