Product Manager: Plasterboard & Ceilings (Hybrid)

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

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.