Senior Product Manager

4 weeks ago


Blackwood, Caerphilly County Borough, United Kingdom Brush Group Full time
Job Title: Senior Product Manager

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Product Manager to join our team at Brush Switchgear. As a key member of our product development team, you will be responsible for driving the strategic direction and overall execution of our Brush Switchgear Product Platform.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Develop and implement a long-term strategic playbook by articulating roadmaps for products, services, and solutions.
  • Develop and implement a lifecycle strategy for the technology/product line/platform.
  • Identify program risks and opportunities, evaluate their impact on the organization, and scope and implement corrective/mitigating strategies.
  • Engage with customers, collect VOC/OVOC, and translate the impact and opportunities to the switchgear portfolio, including segmentation.
  • Develop and update market, regulatory, and competitive positioning within relevant segments and persona development, leveraging insights to inform product opportunities, portfolio gaps, acquisitions, partnerships, product positioning, and product marketing.
  • Develop and update technical and commercial value propositions, including reviewing cost of ownership, service quality, and customer value perception.
  • Ensure regulatory and statutory compliance on product design, relevant technical, safety, and environmental standards, codes of practice, etc.
  • As technology/product line/platform owner, work closely with project sponsors and cross-functional teams to develop the scope, deliverables, required resources, plan, budget, and timing for strategic initiatives aligned with overall business goals.
  • Work collaboratively across the organization/functions to ensure early adoption and alignment of key principles governing innovation development programs, including validation of assumptions, must-haves, and customer value positioning.
  • Work closely with the Programme Management Office (PMO) to develop project assessment protocols for evaluation and improvement and maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance.
  • Ensure that Intellectual Property (IP) opportunities are defined and reviewed by scanning existing portfolios and critically reviewing IP aspects at the onset of new development programs.
  • Accountable for adequate data protection activities and awareness levels within their area of responsibility, in line with the data protection policy.
Person Specification:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Mechanical discipline) or equivalent.
  • MBA or equivalent.
  • Six Sigma methodology (Minimum Green Belt, preferred Yellow Belt).
  • Excellent written and oral skills.
Skills:
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build rapport.
  • Strong leadership skills, ability to build consensus in project teams and across the wider organization.
  • Able to stimulate and encourage an environment for creative excellence, promote continuous innovation.
  • Executes and takes ownership (as individual contributor and/or project leader).
  • Drive for tangible and measurable results.
  • Deep skills in strategic development and insight, building and leveraging of technology platforms & agile/lean process methodologies.
  • Proven track record working cross-functionally, in an engineered-to-order business, influencing and collaborating with associated functions.
  • Creates a climate where others can perform constructively, fosters open communication.
  • Establishes benchmarks, based on industry excellence, and inspires others to achieve them.
  • Passion for technology and the application thereof, relevant to the portfolio.
  • Well-developed EQ (emotional intelligence) and the ability to leverage this.
  • 8-10 Yrs. Product Management/Product Marketing/Technical Leadership experience in a medium to large enterprise (£100M - £500M P&L) in the Electrical, Power, Oil & Gas, Mining, or Automotive segment.
Knowledge:
  • A solid understanding of Medium Voltage Power Distribution Technologies. T&D experience will be an advantage.
  • Lean Six Sigma methodology.
  • Extensive energy industry network including technology organizations, academic institutions, trade bodies, vendors, and supply chain.
  • Keeps up to date with competitor information and market trends; identifies business opportunities for the organization; demonstrates financial awareness; controls costs and thinks in terms of profit, loss, and added value.
Experience:
  • Experience within a manufacturing/engineering-to-order environment.
  • Experience of developing and implementing strategic transformation in a Product Management role.
  • Proven ability to complete projects and achieve results in an ambiguous work environment.
  • Successful track record of delivering accurate, comprehensive requirements to specific timescales and release schedules.
About Us:

Brush Switchgear provides agile and adaptive engineering solutions and products, including consultancy services, design, and project management as well as award-winning product technology, to a wide range of projects.

A chosen partner for national and regional power generation and distribution network operators, through innovation and a commitment to delivering solutions that address grid-resilience and drive system change, we support the global drive to net-zero, helping create a future-proof Infrastructure.



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