Product Manager Filler

Your opportunity

Accountable for filler competitiveness and profitability. Overall responsibility covering product strategy, portfolio management, Product Development Plan (PDP) and product promotion. Build a product roadmap based on a continuous understanding of market needs and portfolio performance.

Your Mission

• Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan (Product roadmap);
• Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities;
• Ensure continuous competition watch and benchmark;
• Responsible for PDP budget for the product line represented;
• Collect requirements from sales/marketing  and complement with own market inputs or research (customers feedback, competition benchmarking, internal inputs, Techno watch, etc.);
• Drive business cases for new development & make decisions on the project launch;
• Review and monitor with program management the progress of PDP execution : Quality (Specifications), Time & Cost;
• Bring continuous market input to development projects during their execution;
• Define market introduction plan for each new product;
• Define and own product map range and portfolio, including sizes, variants, options list and recommended prices;
• Partner with platform owner to transform market requirements into product specifications;
• Drive product promotions, including promotion strategy, customers meetings, exhibition, conferences and sales force training.

Role in decisions:

• Product roadmap definition;
• Competition watch and Benchmark;
• PDP Budget;
• Market requirements and Product specifications for PDP and portfolio;
• Business Case;
• PDP Execution;
• New Product market introduction;
• Portfolio management (configuration, pricing, "Go/ No Go" for derogations etc.);
• Product promotion strategy;
• Product promotion support.

KPI:

• Order Intakes levels;
• Product profitability (cost, pricing and margin);
• Market share;
• PDP budget : Expenses versus budget;
• Business case completion and availability;
• Product roadmap completion and availability;
• Front line product promotion : customers meetings, exhibition etc.

Your Profile

• Master Degree or equivalent;
• Expertise in filling technologies;
• Expertise in customer management;
• Expertise in project Management;
• Expertise in PDP Program Management;
• Expertise in Business Development (BDM);
• Background in Innovation and Engineering.