Product Manager - Plasterboard & Ceilings

Saint Gobain; East Leake; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland is seeking a Product Manager to own the Robust Plasterboards and Ceilings portfolio, shaping its strategy, driving product performance and ensuring offerings meet construction market needs.

The role is hands-on across the product lifecycle, collaborating with the innovation team to identify customer needs, trends and opportunities for new or enhanced solutions, with hybrid work from East Leake Head Office at least two days a week.

Qualifications

• Proven product management experience, ideally in construction materials
• Strong analytical mindset, able to evaluate product performance, market data, carry out competitor benchmarking and gain and use customer insights
• Experience in bringing new products to market from concept , to business case, to development and launch
• Someone who can balance strategic thinking with detail and able to switch easily between strategy and tactical delivery
• Experience of cross business stakeholder management

Responsibilities

• Owning and developing the product portfolio - defining and delivering the portfolio strategy and roadmap
• Benchmarking our offer against the market - analysing competitor products and solutions, pricing, certification, performance and positioning
• Driving new product and solution development by building business cases and supporting cross-functional teams
• Supporting compliance, certification and regulatory readiness
• Championing customer needs with a customer 1st approach by working with innovation and technical teams to identify customer problems, unmet needs and opportunities, ensuring our products evolve in line with the realities of the construction environments
• Creating clear got-to-market value proposition supported by customer and market insights

Job description

At Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland, we're looking for a Product Manager to take ownership of our Robust Plasterboards and Ceilings portfolio- shaping its strategy, driving product performance, and ensuring our solutions meet the evolving needs of the construction market.

This is a critical, hands-on product role, in which you will be responsible for overseeing the product lifecycle and working closely with the innovation team to identify customer needs, emerging trends and opportunities for new solutions or enhancements to existing offerings.

This role is suitable for someone with product management experience ideally within a manufacturing or construction industry.

This is a full-time, permanent role offering hybrid working - our team work out of our East Leake Head Office at least 2 days a week.

What we're looking for:

• Proven product management experience, ideally in construction materials
• Strong analytical mindset, able to evaluate product performance, market data, carry out competitor benchmarking and gain and use customer insights
• Experience in bringing new products to market from concept , to business case, to development and launch
• Someone who can balance strategic thinking with detail and able to switch easily between strategy and tactical delivery
• Experience of cross business stakeholder management

What you will be doing:

• Owning and developing the product portfolio - defining and delivering the portfolio strategy and roadmap
• Benchmarking our offer against the market - analysing competitor products and solutions, pricing, certification, performance and positioning
• Driving new product and solution development by building business cases and supporting cross-functional teams
• Supporting compliance, certification and regulatory readiness
• Championing customer needs with a customer 1st approach by working with innovation and technical teams to identify customer problems, unmet needs and opportunities, ensuring our products evolve in line with the realities of the construction environments
• Creating clear got-to-market value proposition supported by customer and market insights

Are Saint-Gobain inclusive employers?

Saint-Gobain is a worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, following our purpose of 'Making the World a Better Home'. We play a part in improving daily life through high-performance solutions. From wherever you are, let your unique personality and our values guide you every day to invent a more sustainable world.

We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.

And what about flexibility?

At Saint-Gobain, we're always open to new ways of working. Everyone has different needs and commitments. We'll happily discuss any need you might have for this role. Whilst we can't promise to meet every request when we're recruiting, we do promise to listen.

If you match our criteria, we will be in touch to discuss your experience and more about you as a person, we look forward to hearing from you!