The Senior Product Portfolio Manager provides product management leadership to cross-functional development teams. This role will keep the Customer at the center of development projects by maintaining a strong understanding of their needs, the market, and collaborate to ensure that products are differentiated in ways that reinforce our brand-level value proposition. This position leverages strong product management fundamentals, business acumen and strategic thinking to drive business outcomes and growth for the organization while working hand in hand with the Collection Business Team. The Business Team is tasked with creating and driving the overall vision & strategy along with defining goals and metrics to track and achieve the desired business outcomes.   

Product Line Strategy (30%) 

• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop a strong product roadmap for area of responsibility to achieve business objectives and growth expectations.  

• Actively input into product planning and prioritization process, and Long-Range Product Planning (LRPP) 

• Partner across the Business to draft business cases to support growth opportunities and inform decision making. 

• Develop and maintain market, customer, and product expertise via assessment of market needs, synthesizing market research data, primary Voice of the Customer (VOC), design research, and competitive trends monitored and managed through product option sales information. 

• Deliver insights to the Business on product line & market trends to help inform decision making. 

• Ensures the appropriate mix of projects are active to achieve revenue & profitability goals. 

• Be a key member of the Collection Business Team in the creation and execution of portfolio level strategies, the creation of tactical plans to drive desired outcomes and the appropriate metrics to drive & measure progress to goals  

• Lead cross-functional initiatives to identify, prioritize, and resolve product quality issues, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business goals. 

Product Management Leadership (60%) 

• Provide Customer Centric Business Leadership to cross-functional development teams.  

• Proactively work to build relationships cross-functionally, ensuring collaboration and a shared understanding of the customer and market. 

• Represent VOC through a Stage-Gate product development process partnering with the Insights Team 

• Ensure project teams quickly reach decisions that help balance customer and business objectives. 

• Translate product launch core benefits to inform successful go-to-market strategies. 

• Ownership of pricing strategy for product line, with assistance of the Pricing Department. 

• Partners with Marketing & Sales for effective Go to Market (GTM) execution. 

Product Expertise & Support (10%) 

• Support departmental improvement initiatives. 

• Act as an internal expert on assigned products and/or focus areas. 

• Assist marketing to create messaging that accurately communicates product differentiation. 

• Maintain thorough understanding of competitive product line strengths and weaknesses. 

• Bachelor’s degree, business, engineering, marketing. 

• MBA with a marketing, leadership, finance or similar emphasis is highly desired. 

• Experience in the building industry is highly desired. 

• 8+ years of related and successful work experience in new product development and product portfolio management. 

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time in market for VOC and regular trips to Marvin Facilities in the Midwest 

• Located in or near the Minneapolis/St Paul Metro area. 

From people to products, Marvin is committed to creating better ways of living. When you join this family-owned and -led window and door company, you belong to a community full of opportunities.

For more than a century, we’ve been at the forefront of designing, building, and engineering premium, award-winning products. Today, Marvin is also proud to have been named a Top Large Employer by Forbes Magazine two years in a row, in 2024 and 2025. With operations in 19 cities across North America, we manufacture Marvin’s quality products, including Infinity Replacement Windows and Doors, and TruStile Doors.

Together, we uphold our values and foster a culture where safety and the wellbeing of our people comes first. We take a better living approach with benefits to support you at work and beyond. From day one, you will enjoy health insurance, paid holidays, paid parental leave, a 401(k) retirement savings match and more!

Some of our unique and most popular benefits include:

• $300 annual wellbeing account to spend on what helps you feel happy + healthy
• Better Living Day! (a paid day off to go have some fun)
• Annual profit sharing – recognizing everyone’s contribution to Marvin’s success
• Giving at Marvin – participate in organized volunteer opportunities
• Brighter Days Fund – financial support from your colleagues and the Marvin family during personal hardships

Join the more than 8,000 Marvin team members to experience these benefits and more. Apply today!

This job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities of the employee. Accommodation may be made to enable an individual with a disability to perform the essential functions of the position. Any employment offer depends on completing a background check and drug screen to company standards.