Product Manager

Robert Bosch Group; Worcester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading heating solutions company is seeking a Product Manager in Worcester to manage product strategy and lifecycle in the UK HVAC market. You will conduct market research, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure compliance while driving product launches. This role requires a degree and experience in product management or marketing. Competitive benefits include hybrid working, a performance bonus, and personal wellbeing support.

Benefits

Hybrid working options

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company Performance Bonus

Enhanced pension contributions

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts on Bosch Group products

Cycle to work scheme

Access to training and mentoring programmes

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in a relevant field.
• Experience within the UK HVAC industry preferred.
• Experience working in Product Management or Marketing functions.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy using expertise in the UK heating market.
• Lead market and customer research to identify trends and gaps.
• Manage new product introductions and ensure cross-functional communication.
• Continuously analyze product portfolio performance.

Skills

Strategic Foresight

Market and Customer Centricity

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Commercial Acumen and Value Realisation

Technical Acumen

Stakeholder Engagement and Influence

Education

Degree in Product Management, Business Management, Marketing, Engineering

Job description

• Legal Entity: Bosch Thermotechnology Ltd.

Company Description

We’re the nation’s favourite heating brand, here to warm up people’s homes, lives, and futures.

From boilers, hybrids and heat pumps to solar thermal and smart controls, we’re givingour customers plenty of choice. With cutting-edge tech and research, we’re right in the thick of the drive for a better future of home heating.

It’s not all tools and tech. People are the real heart of our company. We connect with our customers to deliver genuinely helpful support, and we care about our employees and give them enriching careers. We work hard, we work together, and we work with a cause – delivering brilliant customer support and exceptional engineering.

As an organisation of more than 1,600 employees, we also take our role in the communities we serve seriously. From giving away free heating systems for community spaces, to our charity, education, and volunteer work – we’re no strangers to rolling our sleeves up, getting stuck in, and helping out.

If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, we’d love to meet you.

Come and work #LikeABosch at Worcester Bosch.

Job Description

As a Product Manager, you are responsible for ensuring competitive advantage by managing a future-proof product strategy for your responsible product categories. You manage the technical and economic performance of the assigned product, portfolio or segment over the complete lifecycle and work cross-functionally with business-wide stakeholders, to further strengthen Bosch in your product category.

• Own the product strategy: Utilise deep expertise in the UK heating market and advanced product management techniques to develop market-leading product specifications, tailored to specific customer needs.
• Conduct strategic research: Lead in-depth market and customer research, including both technical and commercial competitor analysis, to identify key trends, market gaps, and unique selling propositions (USPs).
• Validate concepts with users: Initiate and execute user experience (UX) research and testing to validate product concepts, features and benefits, ensuring they meet genuine customer needs.
• Ensure compliance: Engage across the Standards network and act as the subject matter expert on relevant regulations and standards, integrating them proactively into all product specifications to ensure full compliance.

Product Development & Launch

• Lead the product vision: Act as the voice of the customer and product strategy within development projects, translating insights into clear, actionable requirements and user stories.
• Define the value proposition: Ensurethe right product is delivered at the optimal quality and price point for the target market, with a clear focus on commercial viability and customer value.
• Drive communication and alignment: Champion the product’s features, benefits and USPs, ensuring they are effectively communicated and understood throughout the organisation and by key customer groups.
• Orchestrate new product introductions: Lead and manage new product introductions (NPIs), coordinating a flawless launch with all relevant departments, including marketing, sales and internal technical stakeholders

Product Lifecycle Management

• Own the ongoing product strategy: Lead cross-functional teams to define and execute the overarching product strategy, leveraging the 4 Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion) to maximise market impact and profitability.
• Analyse portfolio performance: Continuously review the product portfolio's performance using key metrics like revenue, margin and market share, making data-driven decisions based on market trends, legislative drivers, customer needs and competitor activity.
• Optimise the portfolio: Proactively manage the product range, including the strategic phase-out of products that are no longer relevant or competitive to ensure a healthy, efficient and profitable portfolio.
• Shape the portfolio strategy: Collaborate with senior stakeholders across sales regions and Business Units to define a market-leading portfolio strategy that fulfils the commercial and growth objectives of the wider business.
• Develop pricing strategies: Lead comprehensive pricing & value analysis and strategically position products, defining price and revenue scenarios based on business goals, predecessor products and segmentation strategies.

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Qualifications

Education requirements:

• Educated to degree level in relevant field (e.g. Product, Business Management Marketing, Engineering) or equivalent
• Experience within UK HVAC industry, preferable though not essential
• Experience working within Product Management, Business Development or Marketing functions

Skills & Attributes:

• Stra tegic Foresight
• Market and Customer Centricity
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Commercial Acumen and Value Realisation
• Technical Acumen
• Stakeholder Engagement and Influence

Additional Information

Deadline for Applications: 29.09.2025

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time so we encourage candidates to submit their applications as soon as possible.

Expected Start Date: 01.01.2026

Please note that this date is advisory and can be flexible within reason.

Working Hours: 39 hours per week – standard working pattern of 08:00 – 17:00 Monday to Thursday and 08:00 – 16:00 Friday with a 1-hour lunchbreak

Working with uscomes with the following benefits:

• Hybrid working options available
• 25days annual leave per year plus bank holidays – additional service days accrued after 5 years
• Eligibility for our Company Performance Bonus
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Access to the Perkbox and My Benefits platforms giving access to discounts, group income protection and death in service benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme and Virtual GP
• Discounts on products from across the Bosch Group
• Subsidised onsite café and canteen
• Health & wellbeing support including: over 200 trained mental health first aid champions, free of charge employee assistance programme and after 2 years’ service you gain eligibility for funding up to £150 per annum to support your personal wellbeing
• Access to Bosch Social Club membership offering you and up to 5 friends and family discounts on excursions and events
• Cycle to work scheme with discounts on push-bikes, e-bikes and accessories
• Policy to support growing families
• Access to self-service training platform containing over 200 Bosch approved programmes
• Networking opportunities across Bosch UK including a mentoring programme