Product Manager - Outdoor Living Solutions

Continental Group Sector ContiTech • Winchester, VA

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Product Manager will define product and portfolio strategy, aligning with the overall portfolio strategy and ensuring internal and external communication of this strategy. This role involves translating market trends, customer needs, and competitor insights into portfolio strategy and roadmap priorities, and preparing proposals for Segment Management regarding portfolio and investment decisions. The Product Manager will align product strategy with pricing logic and support value-based pricing. They will act as a project leader, orchestrating alignment across Sales, Product Development, Marketing, Operations, and Pricing to drive value creation. Additionally, the role includes defining, implementing, steering, and maintaining the product lifecycle process for respective Business Fields, driving portfolio optimization, harmonization, and complexity reduction. The Product Manager will consolidate market, customer, and competitor insights into product requirements and portfolio decisions, collect KPIs for product performance monitoring, define and maintain clear value propositions, and identify, prioritize, and align innovation opportunities with product strategy and the roadmap. Ensuring clear communication of value propositions and product training content availability is also key. Occasional travel is necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or a related degree
• 2+ years’ experience in Product Management, Project Management, Strategy or Business Development in a relevant industrial environment
• Experience in leading cross-functional and international projects and managing product or portfolio-related processes
• Experience in leading interdisciplinary teams (disciplinary or functional) and working in matrix organizations
• Experience in international projects and international travel to customers, partners, projects, ect.
• Leadership skills
• Financial acumen
• Communication Skills, including presentation and negotiation techniques
• Management skills, tools and techniques
• General Management understanding, business acumen
• Market knowledge on customer and competitors' trends and actions
• Marketing communication understanding (value proposition, not execution)
• Project management (product and portfolio projects)
• Strategic thinking and ability to define and steer product and portfolio strategy
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas now or in the future for this job posting.

Nice To Haves

• 5 + years of experience in Product Management, Project Management, Strategy or Business

Responsibilities

• Define product and portfolio strategy and align with the overall portfolio strategy.
• Ensure internal and external communication of product strategy.
• Translate market trends, customer needs, and competitor insights into portfolio strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Prepare portfolio and investment decision proposals for Segment Management.
• Align product strategy with pricing logic and support value-based pricing.
• Orchestrate, in the role of a project leader, alignment across Sales, Product Development, Marketing, Operations, and Pricing to drive value creation.
• Define, implement, steer, and maintain the product lifecycle process for respective Business Fields, aligned with the Product roadmap (launch, ramp-up, phase-out).
• Drive portfolio optimization, harmonization, and complexity reduction.
• Implement, review, and maintain global product management processes to improve efficiency.
• Consolidate market, customer, and competitor insights and translate them into product requirements and portfolio decisions.
• Collect KPIs according to the product lifecycle process for product performance monitoring.
• Define and maintain clear value propositions across the portfolio.
• Identify, prioritize, and align innovation opportunities with product strategy and the roadmap, ensuring integration into portfolio development.
• Ensure clear communication of value propositions and the availability of product training content.

Benefits

• Referral Bonus : Yes

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level