Autonomous Mining Product Manager

sandvik; Turku; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandvik is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead our BU Automation machine automation portfolio. Based in Tampere or Turku, you will own product requirements, drive roadmaps, and supervise development with R&D and engineering teams to meet business goals.

You will collaborate with sales, pricing, and external customers, ensuring documentation, commercial models, and market strategies align with mine needs.

Qualifications

• University Degree in engineering, software or related field
• At least five years of experience in mining and/or similar industry space or automation/ICT/software industry
• Experience with underground and surface mining applications and mine planning experience is seen as advantage
• Experience with large scale software systems for industrial production management
• Product management, business development, or (product) engineering experience
• Skills to analyse data from multiple viewpoints including market data, competitive offerings, and other information sources
• Effective communication skills. You must communicate with people from other areas of the company including top management, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, externals, and sales teams
• Strong presentation, customer service, business, and negotiation skills
• Skills to manage product release related activities including testing, preparing documentation, demos, and product launches
• Develop and manage pricing strategies together with sales and pricing functions for different categories
• Willingness to travel extensively and spend time at the mine sites
• Ability to understand customers' needs to provide a competitive advantage
• Fluent in English (both written and verbally)

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain product vision and strategy including the product roadmap and ensure alignment with current product offering
• Product development supervision and sponsoring according to product development process definitions (internal customer to R&D and Engineering function)
• Defining product requirements to meet customer needs and business objectives
• Ensure and improve alignment with equipment divisions and development roadmaps
• Ensuring all required product related documentation is created and available
• Revising and maintaining the commercial model of the offering
• Monitoring of competition and industry trends and creating supporting material for sales teams
• Direct involvement in selected sales support activities
• Participation and coordination of various customer events and promotions
• Work with external customers, project delivery and sales support teams to analyze the needs and business values. Work closely with R&D to transfer these requirements into product to meet business objectives

Skills

Leadership

Product management

Communication

Presentation

Negotiation

Pricing strategy

Data analysis

Education

University Degree in engineering, software or related field

Job description

Sandvik is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead our BU Automation machine automation portfolio. Based in Tampere or Turku, you will own product requirements, drive roadmaps, and supervise development with R&D and engineering teams to meet business goals.

You will collaborate with sales, pricing, and external customers, ensuring documentation, commercial models, and market strategies align with mine needs.