Are you our new Nordic Product Manager?. Suecia

As the product owner, the role of the Nordic Product Manager is to ensure a relevant, competitive and profitable product portfolio. With an increasing cross market approach, the Nordic Product Manager will drive harmonization and synergies where relevant, in order to capitalize on market similarities in product offer and innovation. The Product Manager will facilitate alignment among key stake holders across different functions and collaborate with peers in other product segments.

As a member of the Nordic Offering & Innovation team, the new colleague will promote a customer and market driven and cooperative Nordic approach to business growth.

Location

The Nordic Product manager is ideally located in the Copenhagen area. Alternative locations are Vamdrup (Kolding), South of Sweden or Oslo.

Key responsibilities

• Product portfolio

  Drive development of a competitive, relevant, innovative and cost-effective offer portfolio incl. products, systems, tools and services.

• Market landscape

  Updated view on market landscape, competitors, market gabs, opportunities, product landscape, customer needs and potential, distribute knowhow to stakeholders.

• Application expert

  Be the technical expert with excellent technical understanding and knowledge including building physics, buildability, regulations, and other documentation.

• Product Compliance

  Control processes to ensure that product portfolio incl. products, systems, tools and services is fully compliant with relevant documentation.

• Product Master data

  Ensure availability of correct product master data on all platforms, incl. both internal and external databases.

• Technical support

  Support sales teams on product and application related questions and ensure clarification on complex questions requiring deeper technical knowledge.

  Perform internal and external training (webinars, presentations etc.).

• Project Management

  Lead own projects within agreed timeframe and budget.

Key qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, structural design or similar.

• Proven experience in Product Management, preferably within similar technical fields in a producing organization.

• Experience from working in a Nordic or international environment is preferred.

Key competences

• Business understanding

  Good understanding of the business, its strategy and the market within the category.

• Strategic thinking

  Strategic mindset with an operational approach and ability to prioritize and turn into concrete actions.

• Application and technical expertise

  Expert knowledge on the insulation applications, the target groups and the decision flow. Technical understanding and knowledge on building physics, buildability, regulations, standards and other documentation.

• Collaboration

  Strong team player skills and the ability to both lead and participate in projects.

• Analytical

  Ability to analyze market trends, consumer behavior, and KPI data in relation to strategy and possible adjustment to meet market needs.

• Structured and result oriented

  Take responsibility of own tasks and results within agreed timeframe and budget. Awareness of processes, workflow and roles necessary to deliver results in an efficient way.

Om arbeidsgiveren:

Saint-Gobain is a world-leading player in sustainable building solutions and materials with a focus on high performance, innovative solutions, energy efficiency and sustainability. Saint-Gobain Construction Materials in the Nordics and Baltics is on an exciting transformation journey, working to an even greater extent to utilize our collective potential across our companies to make a difference - as a material supplier and as a professional knowledge partner in sustainable construction. Together we are aiming to "Making the world a better home".