Product Manager

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•    To provide best in class customer experience by delivering differentiated solutions, including market leading product and data-driven services, throughout the product lifecycle with market leading offerings supporting our customers & organization to meet our sustainability targets
•    As a result of this product management will be a key driver of HIAB’s long term profitable growth by delivering high value added solutions for customer’s current and future business needs. 

Main tasks and responsibilities

●    Responsible for own product(s) success (Sales, CGM and share growth by attractive segment) 
●    Owns product input in overall MGPP and implements roadmap for given products to product line strategy
●    Secures needed input for NPD activities (Insights, segmentation, unmet needs, business case, launch, etc.). 
●    Spends 40% with customer/external stakeholders. Organizes & uses deep insights for decision making
●    Input to marketing (Value proposition, differentiation to competitor, other USP’s etc)
●    Product Phase in & out
●    Ensures existing products are optimized with the correct options, pricing, sales tools to meet business objectives
●    Prioritises PLC activity to ensure portfolio remains competitive
●    Approves option releases
●    Works with Pricing on value based pricing, competitive analysis, price positioning and pricing model
●    Works closely with sales organization to counter-measure growth and price gaps 
●    Training on value proposition and offering
●    Co-operation with Service PM to secure optimized product lifecycle costs, serviceability, and service capabilities in markets
●    Owns TCO management. Develop insights (and sales/value argumentation tools) for product TCO in different applications and customer segments
●    Responsible of own product technical sales support
●    Responsible of own product segment specific support
●    Coordinate, control and guide new product development projects as well as bigger assignments and tasks.
●    Oversee development stages for a wide range of projects, sub-projects and assignments.
●    Perform tasks such as scheduling, resource forecasting and make sure that financial forecasts are accurate and that projects/assignments are progressing as planned.
●    Coordinate teams from different specialty disciplines working in chosen projects. Ensure cross-functional collaboration
●    Responsible for the overall quality control on any given project, sub-project or assignment.

Product Manager owns pricing of his/her product line within Hiab pricing framework: 
●    PM provides list prices, discount targets, Level of Authority & margin targets
●    PM provides special deal support and evaluates exceptions 
●    PM uses realization to evaluate list prices and to manage P&L (and manage costs)
●    PM will request support from central pricing to improve list price structure, price models, tools, strategies and data for pricing. 

What you’ll need to succeed

Education:
•    Typically university (degree) level (technical and/or business)
 Experience:
•    Multiple years of experience in on road load handling systems (or similar heavy equipment)
•    Experience in multinational working environment
•    Experience in working in customer interface
•    Experience in handling product and product business in different life cycle stages

Competencies:

•    Expert/Mastering, has in depth knowledge and skills covering all aspects in the area of expertise/responsibility. Is considered a role model and expert in the area of expertise/responsibility, works typically on tactical level. Coaches/mentors others
•    Business and commercial acumen with strong customer skills 
•    Sufficient technical understanding of product & application
•    Strong communication skills and influencing capability
•    Cross functional collaboration skills
•    Presentation, oral & written skills

Desired Behavior:

•    Passionate about driving performance improvements
•    High sense of accountability
•    Customer focused
•    Influence and negotiation skills (negotiate with key internal and external stakeholders)
•    Innovative (Contribute to new product development and find commercial and technical solutions to the product(s) managed)
•    Ability to manage complex product / solution development activities that have a large impact on the current and future products / solutions

You will be part of

We believe in our people as it is our people who really make the difference. We always work in close collaboration with our customers, deliver on our promises and never walk away no matter how big the challenge. We succeed because we do it together.

Interested to join?

 If you are interested in the position, please submit your Cover Letter together with your CV