Nordic Product Manager

Nordic Product Manager, Technical insulation

Would you like to become responsible ensuring a relevant, competitive and profitable product portfolio across the Nordic Markeds?

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.

The role
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 offerings and innovation. The Product Manager will facilitate alignment among key stakeholders across different Nordic functions and collaborate with peers in other product segments in the Nordics and colleagues from the central Saint-Gobain team.

As a member of the Nordic Offering & Innovation team, the new colleague will promote a customer-, and market-driven Nordic approach to business growth, which is based on closer cooperation.

The main applications within Technical Insulation are Marine, Industrial, HVAC and Fire protection. Customers and influencers are contractors and specialized installers as well as distribution and specifiers.

Location
The Nordic Product manager is ideally located in the Copenhagen area. Alternative locations could be 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.
• Application expert
  Be the technical expert with excellent technical understanding and knowledge on insulation solutions, regulations, test regimes and buildability.
  Perform internal and external training (webinars, presentations etc.).
• Market landscape
  Updated view on market landscape, competitors, market gabs, opportunities, product landscape, customer needs- and potential, distribute knowhow to stakeholders.
• Product Compliance
  Overlook processes to ensure that product portfolio incl. products, systems, tools and services is fully compliant with relevant documentation across the Nordics.
• Product Master data
  Ensure availability of correct product master data on all platforms, incl. both internal and external databases.
• Project Management
  Lead own projects within agreed timeframe and budget.

Key qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, structural design or similar Technical background.
• Proven experience in Product Management (+3 years), preferably within similar technical fields in a producing organization.
• Experience in technical insulation and/or working with industrial and technical applications like HVAC or Fire protection is preferred.
• 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/execute and turn into concrete actions.
• Application and technical expertise
  Knowledge on either the insulation applications, the target groups and the decision flow. Knowledge and preferably experience in technical and industrial applications, regulations/standards, test regimes and buildability of solutions.
• Collaboration
  Strong team player skills and the ability to both lead and participate in projects. Good at communication and when needed you can stand your ground
• 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.