Associate Product Director

Wolters Kluwer N.V.; Hoevelaken; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Competitive compensation

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Wolters Kluwer N.V. in the Netherlands is seeking an Associate Product Director to steer a market-leading software portfolio across NL, Belgium, and UK, shaping strategy, growth, and team performance.

You will lead a group of Product Managers, align with senior stakeholders, and drive AI-enabled capabilities across core workflows. You will oversee pricing, GTM, and value propositions while collaborating with Product, Technology, Sales, Marketing, and Executive leaders to deliver measurable

Qualifications

• Significant experience in product management leadership within software or tech.
• Proven success managing cross-geographical portfolios and driving growth.
• Experience leading managers and senior product professionals.
• Strong commercial PM skills, including pricing and market positioning.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategic vision and roadmap for the portfolio.
• Drive growth across multiple markets and customer segments.
• Identify new business opportunities from market and competitive insights.
• Lead AI-powered capabilities and embed ML into workflows.
• Oversee portfolio investments and align priorities with outcomes.
• Develop go-to-market strategies with commercial teams.
• Shape pricing models and value propositions.
• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers.
• Partner with Product, Technology, Sales, Marketing and Leadership.
• Monitor portfolio performance and translate objectives into outcomes.

Skills

Product leadership

Portfolio management

AI product capabilities

Go-to-market

Stakeholder management

Job description

Lead the Strategy and Growth of a Market-Leading Software Portfolio

Are you a strategic product leader who enjoys shaping the future of software businesses, driving growth, and leading high-performing teams? As Associate Product Director, you will play a pivotal role in defining the future direction of a portfolio of market-leading software solutions across the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. This is a highly visible leadership position where strategy, commercial impact, innovation, and people leadership come together. You will be responsible for driving portfolio growth, identifying new market opportunities, and ensuring our products continue to deliver exceptional value to customers in a rapidly evolving market. Working closely with senior stakeholders across Product, Technology, Sales/Marketing, Finance and Executive Leadership teams, you will help shape the next phase of growth for a strategically important part of our business.

The Role

The accounting market is undergoing a period of rapid transformation and growth, fuelled by cloud technologies and the emergence of AI-driven workflows, creating a uniquely exciting time to join. You will oversee a portfolio of established software solutions specialising in pre-accounting, accounting/bookkeeping and ERP, including Twinfield, Basecone, and other products serving businesses and professionals across the Region West product portfolio in the Netherlands, Belgium and UK. At the same time, you will lead and develop a team of experienced Product Managers, creating alignment around a shared vision and driving successful execution. You will operate at the intersection of customer needs, market opportunities, technology innovation, and business objectives, ensuring the portfolio remains competitive, relevant, and positioned for long-term growth.

What You’ll Do

• Define and execute the strategic vision and roadmap for the product portfolio.
• Drive sustainable growth across multiple markets and customer segments.
• Identify new business opportunities through market, customer, and competitive insights.
• Drive the identification, prioritisation, and delivery of AI-powered product capabilities, embedding machine learning and generative AI into core workflows to improve customer value, efficiency, and differentiation.
• Lead portfolio investment decisions, define strategic priorities, and ensure investments deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies in collaboration with commercial teams.
• Help shape pricing models, market positioning, and value propositions.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers and product leaders.
• Build strong partnerships with stakeholders across Product, Technology, Sales, Marketing, and Executive Leadership.
• Monitor portfolio performance and ensure strategic objectives are translated into measurable business outcomes.

Your Skills and Experience

• Significant experience in Product Management leadership roles within software or technology-driven organizations.
• Proven success in managing complex, cross-geographical, product portfolios and driving business growth.
• Experience leading managers and senior product professionals.
• Strong commercial product management experience, including pricing, market positioning, portfolio growth, and value creation.
• Proven experience defining product strategy for revenue-generating software products and translating market insights into growth opportunities.
• Experience operating in international and matrix organizations.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution.
• Experience working with technology-driven innovation and digital transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to AI-related opportunities and emerging technologies is highly valued.
• Fluency in Dutch, combined with professional working proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

Leadership Style and Personal Qualities

You are a strategic product leader who combines market insight, commercial thinking, and execution to drive portfolio growth. You know how to navigate complexity, build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups, and make decisions that balance customer value, business outcomes, and long-term sustainability. As a leader, you empower teams to perform at their best while providing clear direction and focus. You are comfortable influencing at senior levels, building trusted relationships across functions and geographies, and creating momentum around ambitious goals. Your communication style is engaging and authentic, enabling you to inspire confidence and bring people together around a shared vision. You thrive in dynamic environments, demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, and are motivated by creating meaningful business impact through people, products, and innovation.

Why This Role?

This is a unique opportunity to lead a strategically important software portfolio with significant regional impact. You will have the opportunity to influence product strategy across multiple countries, shape investment decisions, drive innovation initiatives, and contribute directly to business growth. The role offers a broad scope of responsibility, exposure to senior leadership, and the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on products used by thousands of businesses and professionals every day.

About Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services. Professionals in the legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare sectors rely on our tools and software solutions to manage their work efficiently. We have 20,000 employees across more than 40 countries.

Wolters Kluwer has a dedicated team of experienced talent acquisition professionals who are ready to hear what makes you tick and share how Wolters Kluwer can help you achieve your goals and ambitions.

As a global organization, we recognize that solving a wide range of complex problems requires diverse perspectives and innovative thinking. We know that bringing our best to our customers, communities, and other key stakeholders requires a highly engaged and talented workforce – one that represents the diversity of those we serve and the communities where we live and work. We aim to provide a welcoming environment and equitable opportunities for all employees regardless of background, nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or religion. This principle is ingrained in our company values and articulated in our Code of Business Ethics. At Wolters Kluwer, you’ll feel valued for your contributions, and you’ll know that your health, safety, and well‑being are important to us.

Our well‑being benefits provide tools, programs, and resources to help our diverse employees feel healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous. Our global Together we thrive well‑being program reflects our commitment to supporting colleagues across physical, mental, social, and financial well‑being. That commitment has been recognized externally through Ragan’s Top Places to Work for Employee Wellbeing: Large Organization in 2024. More recently, Wolters Kluwer was recognised by Forbes as one of America’s Best Large Employers 2026 and America’s Best Employers for Engineers 2026. In 2025, Wolters Kluwer was also recognised by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Women.

To ensure we continue to drive innovation that enables us to develop products and services to best serve our customers, we cultivate a workplace culture rooted in mutual respect, bringing forward insights from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We are also committed to complying with laws requiring equal opportunity in hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, and we do not tolerate discrimination on any of these bases.

Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide. Our customers work in industries that impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI‑powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity. We deliver trusted, AI‑powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert‑validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes. Today, nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI‑powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains. We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud‑based, AI‑powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems. Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high‑stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential. With a nearly 190‑year legacy, Wolters Kluwer continues to evolve its portfolio of digital solutions and services to meet the changing needs of professionals worldwide, enabling them to work faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver better outcomes.

What We Offer

• A senior leadership position with significant strategic impact.
• Responsibility for a market‑leading international software portfolio.
• The opportunity to drive growth, innovation, and AI adoption.
• Leadership of a talented and experienced product organization.
• A collaborative and international working environment.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Opportunities for professional growth and long‑term career development.