Product Manager

Deep Sea Electronics Ltd; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in England seeks a Product Manager to develop and drive product strategy with P&L responsibility. This role includes managing product lifecycle and ensuring successful launches by analyzing market demands. Candidates must have strong communication and organizational skills, along with a Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience in marketing or engineering. The position offers 25 days holiday, a flexible holiday scheme, and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare and a performance-based bonus.

Benefits

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

New flexible holiday scheme

Bupa Healthcare package

Life Insurance

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay

5% Pension contributions

Companywide performance-based annual bonus scheme

Qualifications

• 4+ years of progressive experience in marketing, business, or engineering.
• Experience in Product Management, Engineering, or Technical support.
• Market knowledge of vehicle and off-highway machinery and automated control systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop product strategy across multiple functions and ensure P&L accountability.
• Manage product lifecycle and drive innovative product roadmap.
• Gather and synthesize category research to inform product direction.

Skills

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Strong presentation skills

Effective organizational and prioritization skills

Ability to read and understand technical information

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering or related field

Job description

The Product Manager develops and drives product strategy cross functionally with P&L responsibility in the assigned product category. This role is responsible for product lifecycle management, and ensures the successful launch of new products, prioritizing strategies based on market analysis and business capabilities. The Product Manager gathers and maintains category research and synthesizes data into facts and trends that validate company direction on product development, driving innovative five-year product roadmap in collaboration with other business leaders. The incumbent understands product quality metrics and communicates issues to the appropriate groups, contributing to problem solving and resolution.

• Develops product category strategy to drive revenue and profitability for assigned product lines, including specific, measurable goals such as percentage of market share, net sales, product revenue and margin growth
• Prioritizes creation of strategies against business needs and market demand
• Gathers and maintains category foundational research. This includes industry- and consumer-focused research (e.g., industry outlet share, market share, and retail sales by price tier, competitive product profiles, consumer "pain points" and usage/attitude research)
• Synthesizes data into facts and trends that validate company direction on product development
• Serves as knowledge expert in product category relative product capability, technical specifications and features, as well as market drivers and the competitive landscape
• Drives innovation-based three-year product roadmap to deliver concept ideation such as Unique Selling Propositions, roadmap of new projects, improvements to existing products and product lines, new product launch timing, phasing out old product timing, channel/customer driven NPI (New Product Introduction) projects, and cost reduction projects
• Build and deliver timely reports and presentation to internal stakeholders and external customers, including relevant metrics and information related to the product line or category
• Utilize formal and informal communication to drive product strategy across the organization, gaining buy-in from broad stakeholder base in a matrix environment
• Collaborate across functions and lead indirect teams to move projects through the stage gate development process
• Drive activities and execute on strategies to support the sales team and process at key launch events or product milestones
• Work collaboratively with the Engineering team to understand critical intellectual property, regulatory standards, legislation to update product category strategy as needed
• Up to 30% travel, including International and valid Driver's License required

  Market knowledge of vehicle and off highway machinery and their automated control systems such as PLC's and HMI's

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Strong presentation skills
• Effective organizational and prioritization skills
• Ability to read and understand technical information well enough to convey in communication to multiple audiences
• 4+ years of progressive in marketing, business, or engineering
• Experience in Product Management, Engineering or Technical support in an integrator company, direct DSE competitor, DSE customer or equivalent experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering or related field

  25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

• New flexible holiday scheme
• Bupa Healthcare package
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
• 5% Pension contributions
• Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme