Product Manager – Connect market needs with smarter portfolio decisions

ABENA; Region Syddanmark; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ABENA is seeking a Global Product Manager for Protective Wear to balance market insights with commercial strategy. You will influence portfolio decisions by analyzing data, certifications and customer needs, ensuring products deliver value and growth across ABENA.

You’ll lead cross-functional collaboration with sales, supply chain and marketing, while maintaining rigorous data standards and regulatory compliance across regions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on product or category management in a commercially driven environment.
• Experience in highly regulated product areas with extensive certification requirements.
• Strong commercial judgement and ability to challenge opportunities.
• Analytical, structured approach using data and customer insights.
• Proactive outreach to markets and colleagues for information.
• Curiosity to build product knowledge across specifications, sustainability and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize the Protective Wear portfolio reflecting market demand and regulatory needs.
• Engage with sales, partners and customers with product expertise and training.
• Maintain accurate product data across SAP, Axapta and PIM including certificates and pricing.
• Coordinate product availability and lifecycle with Supply Chain to reduce waste.
• Provide input for tenders, analyses, marketing materials and data sheets.

Skills

Product management

Analytical thinking

Regulatory compliance

Commercial judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

English & Danish

Tools

SAP

Axapta

PIM

Job description

What does a strong product portfolio look like? Is it about offering more products, or about having the right products for the right markets? And are you comfortable making the commercial choices needed to get there?

That is one of the challenges waiting for you as our new Global Product Manager for Protective Wear at ABENA. You will step into a broad portfolio where you combine commercial understanding with a thorough, analytical approach, using data to assess product viability and profitability for the organization before making informed portfolio decisions.

You will play a crucial role in gathering input from and understanding our markets, challenge requests, turning insights into decisions, creating clarity and synergies around product initiatives, and ensuring that decisions translate into customer value and profitable growth across ABENA.

We are therefore looking for a Product Manager who combines an analytical and structured approach with the confidence to reach out, challenge assumptions, and move initiatives forward. Someone who wants to understand both the products and the business behind them.

Your key responsibilities will include

• Develop and optimize the Protective Wear portfolio, ensuring the assortment reflects market demand, commercial targets, and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Engage proactively with our sales organizations, partners, and customers with product expertise, product training, presentations, and identification of new market opportunities.
• Maintain accurate product data and documentation across systems including SAP, Axapta, and PIM, covering technical specifications, certificates, pricing, and regulatory information.
• Coordinate product availability and lifecycle activities, working closely with Supply Chain to support efficient product flow and help reduce excess stock and waste.
• Provide commercial and technical input for tenders, business analyses, marketing materials, packaging artwork, data sheets, and selected product-related projects.

What we’re looking for

• Hands-on experience with product or category management in a commercially driven environment, preferably within a highly regulated product area with extensive certification and compliance requirements.
• Strong commercial judgement and the confidence to challenge opportunities, requests, and assumptions when the business case does not add up.
• An analytical and structured approach, using data, customer insights, and product performance to make priorities and decisions.
• A proactive way of working, where you reach out to markets and colleagues to find the information you need rather than waiting for it to come to you.
• The curiosity to build strong product knowledge and navigate specifications, documentation, sustainability, and compliance requirements.
• Confidence working internationally in English and Danish, collaborating across functions, markets, and different commercial priorities.

Your Team, Our Culture and Values

Our Protective Wear team brings together a Global Category Manager, a Product Specialist, a Global Sourcing Specialist and Purchasing Coordinators. As the team develops, you’ll help shape how we collaborate and strengthen portfolio management, working closely with our sales organizations and markets.

We value initiative, curiosity and shared ownership. We work independently and support each other, combining attention to detail with a practical focus on solving problems, improving workflows and delivering quality.

Your leader at ABENA will be Jette Matzen Nielsen, Global Category Manager, who describes her leadership style as follows:

I believe people do their best work when they feel trusted and know what is expected of them. I'll give you the space to take ownership, make decisions and bring your own ideas to the table, without micromanaging how you get there. At the same time, I want to be a leader you can always come to for support, sparring or an honest conversation. Openness and honesty matter to me, and I want us to talk about challenges early and work through them together.

At ABENA, you become part of a global company with a clear purpose: making a real difference in people’s everyday lives. Across the organization, we are guided by three core values: Trust, Fairness, and Cooperation. They shape how we work together, make decisions, and take responsibility for moving ABENA forward.