Group Product Manager - consumer high-pressure washers

The position is based at Nilfisk in Hadsund in Denmark within a team of other global product managers handling Nilfisk’s portfolio of high-pressure washers and vacuum cleaners.

The position will have responsibility for Nilfisk’s line of consumer pressure washers and will be working with the European markets. This position will have a close cooperation with Nilfisk’s R&D centre in China.

The position is reporting to VP product management Vac & HPW Esben Graff.

Execute the portfolio strategy and create great customer value:

• A driver for this position is to develop and maintain an excellent portfolio of product platforms and execute and give input the portfolio strategy to meet defined business goals.
• Create the highest customer value by detecting, examining and transferring customer needs into product requirements and value propositions for both existing portfolio and new product development.

Further, the position includes, but are not limited to:

• Work across a wide range of disciplines – e.g., portfolio planning and project execution with R&D and Marketing, product strategy and launch planning, innovation and portfolio roadmap with related strategic initiatives.
• Manage product portfolio and lifecycle management within own product category and segment to reach business targets – e.g., define and maintain business cases, new variant creation, manage in-/out-phasing of products and market communication.
• Provide expertise on products and solutions to Sales and Marketing team, and support in preparation of technical and marketing documents.
• Collect market research and customer insights to analyse and formulate customer pain points into new solutions, features, and benefits.

Why join us

In this role, you will have direct impact on the future product line within this product category. If you are passionate about products, then this is exactly the right opportunity for you! You will be the lead of accelerating the product line to create growth and revenue for the Consumer business. It is a role, where you will get the full mix of working with R&D, Product Management, Sales, Marketing and so on, and have a great influence on the consumer products in Nilfisk.

At Nilfisk, we know that amazing people make amazing companies. You will join a company culture with a lot of freedom and trust, and where we have a growth mindset. At Nilfisk, it’s OK to make mistakes, as long as you learn from them. Further, we want you to question ideas and speak your mind, so we can, together, find the best solutions. If you are ready for this, we would be keen to hear from you.

We value the experience you bring

To succeed in this role we imagine that you have a couple of years of experience within product development, product sales or product management in an international company. Ideally, you have worked with a technical and physical product in B-2-C, and you have interest in diving into the details of products. You have the ability to handle many tasks simultaneously while maintaining focus and a positive attitude also in times of heavy workload. Furthermore, the ability to balance working hands-on to execute and deliver on your own projects as well as being able to think long-term to establish the future strategies and plans for growth. A technical  commercial mindset is beneficial in this role, as well as being  an analytical problem-solver. There will be some travelling, since this is a global role therefore the capability and willingness to travel as needed (10-20 days per year)

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Interested? 

If this could be your next career step, please apply as soon as possible as we will look at applications ongoingly, however no later than the 14th of April