Industry Solutions Product Manager
No salary listed
Senior
Cleveland, OH, USA
In Person
ProductProduct Management
About the job
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience either working in or with industrial or discrete manufacturing organizations in manufacturing planning or operations roles tied to supply chain planning, production planning, materials, inventory, operations excellence, or digital transformation, with responsibility for defining key processes or solutions used in core manufacturing workflows; or building enterprise software-as-a-service products used by manufacturers for inventory optimization, production planning, advanced planning and scheduling, material requirements planning, sales and operations planning, integrated business planning, or adjacent planning and optimization domains.
- Ability to translate complex real-world workflows into clear product direction, including problem statements, requirements, prioritization logic, and success metrics.
- Ability to lead customer discovery sessions, challenge assumptions professionally, and communicate value to practitioners and executives.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to move between executive narratives and detailed workflows.
- Comfort using artificial intelligence tools to accelerate research synthesis, requirements drafting, prototyping, and workflow exploration while maintaining rigor and validation discipline.
Responsibilities
- Own the manufacturing point of view for product discovery and prioritization, including what matters, why it matters, and what to build next.
- Map day-in-the-life workflows for planners, supply chain leaders, and operations stakeholders in discrete manufacturing.
- Translate manufacturing workflows into product bets with clear problems, measurable outcomes, and actionable roadmap candidates.
- Capture market needs, run structured feedback loops with customers and partners, and translate insights into prioritized product requirements that drive development work.
- Partner with go-to-market teams, including Sales and Marketing, to shape value propositions and brand promise.
- Engage as a subject matter expert in strategic customer conversations, including discovery, value engineering, solution validation, and roadmap discussions.
- Use artificial intelligence tools to accelerate discovery, prototype workflows, create user journeys, product requirements documents, and acceptance criteria in partnership with Design and Engineering, and validate solution direction with customers and internal teams.
- Create repeatable manufacturing-first assets, including product templates, demo storylines, and return-on-investment narratives.
- Advise on complementary services offerings.
- Drive cross-functional execution to deliver compelling market value, support enablement and request-for-proposal/request-for-information inputs, and participate in customer-facing engagements.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with or strong familiarity with supply chain planning and advanced planning and scheduling ecosystems, including how manufacturers integrate planning with enterprise resource planning, manufacturing execution systems, and surrounding systems, as well as sales and operations planning and inventory management or optimization.
- Background in implementing, supporting, or product-managing planning solutions across manufacturing contexts, including production planning and scheduling, inventory optimization, and sales and operations planning or integrated business planning.
- Comfort collaborating with Design on prototypes and with Engineering and Data Science on feasibility tradeoffs and instrumentation.
About the company
ToolsGroup provides supply chain planning and optimization software for retailers, distributors, and manufacturers through a SaaS platform. It automates demand forecasting, multi-echelon inventory optimization, and replenishment, using probabilistic forecasting and machine learning to handle demand volatility. Its offerings include SO99+ as the core platform, JustEnough for retail planning and execution, and the Demand Collaboration Hub for collaborative forecasting, all supporting S&OP with real-time data. The goal is to improve product availability, reduce inventory and waste, lower planning workload, and boost profitability.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded
1993
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Levapan adopted SO99+ on February 17, 2026, expanding Latin American food-manufacturing credibility.
- Natuzzi partnered with ToolsGroup on September 30, 2025, strengthening retail and furnishings referenceability.
- Hiring continued in September 2026, and ToolsGroup listed 13 open roles across global offices.
What critics are saying
- SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, RELEX, and Blue Yonder compress ToolsGroup's enterprise pipeline by 2027.
- Decion's agentic-AI promises invite commoditization; vendors can copy workflows faster than planning science.
- Private-equity ownership from Accel-KKR pressures exit timing, risking product focus over long-term platform depth.
What makes ToolsGroup unique
- Decion launched May 27, 2026, extending probabilistic planning into agentic execution.
- Gartner named ToolsGroup in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for discrete supply chain planning.
- SO99+ remains differentiated by probabilistic forecasting for intermittent, volatile demand across 400+ customers.
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Benefits
- Remote Work Options