Product Manager

Title: Product Manager

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Location: Plattsburgh, NY, US

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Benefits: Full benefits package, including medical/dental/vision, retirement benefits, short and long term incentives, competitive PTO, education reimbursement, etc.

Norsk Titanium is hiring a Product Manager for our Plattsburgh, NY additive manufacturing site!

Who is Norsk Titanium? What do we do? If you haven't heard our name in passing before, you will soon. Norsk Titanium is pioneering a new era of on-demand metal additive manufacturing that will revolutionize the raw material supply chain. We are the world's first and only OEM qualified supplier of additively manufactured structural titanium components. Our focus doesn't stop at the aerospace industry. Our unique RPD™ process may be applied in the defense, space, oil and gas, and industrial markets. Our team is small, but our goals are big. Norsk Titanium scientists, engineers, and employees around the world are truly responsible for the future of metal; You could be part of the next industrial revolution!

What will Norsk Titanium do for you? At Norsk Titanium, we are committed to mutual growth and success. Our innovative team provides training and mentorship from global subject matter experts. We are committed to our employees: mind, body and soul. As such, we benchmark our benefits annually to ensure we offer industry leading benefits. Our compensation and benefits structure has been developed to attract the best and brightest in the industry. We offer both short-term (bonus) incentive plans and long-term (stock option) incentive plans, tuition assistance for continuing education, gym memberships, a generous 401k plan with Day 1 vesting and much more.

With NTi, you aren't a number, you're a valuable team member!

The Prod uct Manager is a key enabler of Norsk Titanium's commercial and operational success, ensures appropriate technology-application and profitability of Norsk Titanium's product portfolio through continuous evaluation, cost improvement, and strategic alignment of new and existing business opportunities.

Ke y Responsibilities

• Leads the evaluation of new and existing business against company priorities, including target markets, profitability objectives, technology application, capacity utilization strategy, and long-term customer objectives, providing go/no-go recommendations to support pipeline prioritization

• Performs value-pricing and price-to-win analyses in collaboration with the Commercial team, combining market intelligence with cost, technical differentiation, and strategic value

• Develops and maintains part-level cost and pricing models for new and re-quoted opportunities, incorporating material, labor, post-processing, tooling, and overhead, in coordination with Cost Accounting to ensure models reflect current material prices, labor rates, machine utilization, and scrap factors, reconciled against actual production data on an ongoing basis

• Challenges cost, schedule, capacity, and business-case assumptions before commercial commitments are made, ensuring margin targets, cost assumptions, and risk factors are clearly documented and reviewed prior to submission, escalating programs or opportunities that fall outside approved strategic or financial boundaries

• Coordinates the end-to-end quoting process for government and commercial RFQs, including schedule alignment, cost roll-up, pricing sign-off, and timely customer submission, supporting the Commercial team with customer inquiries, proposals, and negotiations

• Develops Project Charters for approved opportunities, establishing scope, financial targets, key assumptions, critical milestones, and required functional deliverables, negotiating accountability with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Legal

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering preferred, Business Administration, Finance, or a related discipline with strong quantitative focus. Experience in aerospace or defense manufacturing environments is highly valued

• 3-7 years of experience in pricing, cost estimating, or financial analysis within aerospace, defense, or precision manufacturing. Direct experience working with or alongside Cost-Accounting strongly preferred

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain detailed cost models incorporating direct materials, direct labor, burden rates, and margin structures. Familiarity with should-cost analysis, cost-to-win modelling or price-to-win (PTW) methodologies is a strong plus

• 7-10 years' experience supporting a commercial or business development team in a quoting, pricing, or product management capacity, with an understanding of how RFQ responses translate into customer commitments and program economics

• Working knowledge of aerospace or defense manufacturing cost drivers, including raw material markets, machining and post-processing costs, and the economics of low-rate versus high-rate production, sufficient to build credible bottoms-up cost estimates

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel for financial modelling is required. Experience with ERP systems and familiarity with cost accounting modules preferred

• Proficiency with business productivity and analytics tools including Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Word) and CRM or quoting management platforms. Experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools is advantageous

• Additional Requirements

• Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to translate cost data and pricing rationale into clear, decision-ready summaries for both commercial leadership and finance stakeholders

• Self-directed and highly organized, comfortable managing a concurrent quoting pipeline across multiple customer accounts with competing deadlines and varying levels of complexity

• Collaborative team player who can work effectively across internal and serve as a reliable bridge between business development and financial planning teams

• Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, with reasonable accommodations available

This position requires access to technical data controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and candidates must be a U.S. Person as defined by 22 CFR 120.62 (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee).

Please refer to the attached Job Description for full role details.

N orsk Titanium is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] ([email protected]) or call (518) 324-4010 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Anticipated Hiring Timeline : Immediate Relocation: Available (For the right fit) Remote Work : Unavailable (Our magic happens onsite!) Sponsorship: Unavailable

Norsk Titanium is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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All offers of employment are subject to favorable results of a criminal background screen, verification of previous employment and references. Additional screening may take place as required by the role and in accordance with state and federal laws. All candidates are subjected to a drug-screen for illegal substances in conjunction with an acceptance of employment. Failure to participate may result in revocation of an offer of employment.