Veolia

Company Description

You bring your passion and drive for product management, experience in the water field, and curiosity for technical solutions. We will give you the opportunity to work in a global organisation, Veolia Water Technologies, with a market-leading position. Our technical solutions for water purification are sold to customers all over the world. ????????

Our ambition is to make the world's best filters for water treatment… Hydrotech is part of the Veolia Water Technologies group - a global company with nearly 220,000 employees. In Sweden, Veolia Water Technologies consists of Hydrotech and AnoxKaldnes. Together we share a passion and work daily to improve the quality of drinking and waste water for people around the world. At Hydrotech, we are about 70 employees and our office and production are located in Vellinge outside of Malmö.

Job Description

Are you interested?

We are looking for a Global Product Manager. This role is integral to the overall growth and profitability of Hydrotech products. You will own the product roadmap and develop short and long range revenue growth plans and competitive strategies for the product line on a global basis. 

The Product Manager also leads long term planning and defining the overall business strategy with a focus on three primary areas:

Product roadmap and new product development

• Monitor the market: Define and monitor product KPI’s. Collect, analyse, and respond to customer inputs (Voice of Customer), incorporating VOC into the product pipeline and feeding back info on existing products to business. Monitor competitor activity, comparative positioning, etc.
• Develop, align, and drive execution of product roadmap for product line, including new product introductions and expansion with existing products into new applications (working with technology and with commercial development)
• Define and articulate high-level value proposition and product attributes. Translate those high-level concepts into meaningful collateral for use in new product commercialization (fact sheet, case studies). Develop and maintain product attributes, ensuring accurate costs, pricing, product hierarchies, and sales status. Train or develop training programs for internal colleagues and our customers on new product value propositions as part of new product commercialisation. Collaborate with marketing and commercial teams on marketing communications and launch plans.

Product Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain strong connections with internal and external (customers) to understand market drivers, value propositions and products competitiveness
• Work with supply chain and technology team to improve products quality performance based on VOCs, CITs (customer issue tracking) and other business intelligence
• Proactively manage the product line portfolio in cooperation with the Development Manager, Sales team

Product Line Profitability

• Develop market based price strategy, implementing regular price adjustments, and managing price exceptions through commercial operations business process
• Manage product costs (Standard Cost) in all production plants, and continuously drive down product cost working with sourcing (mat’l) and supply chain (productivity)
• Track material cost, revenue, and margin rates by product, market, and region… and drive those metrics towards meeting our profitability targets

You can look forward to a senior position where you get to drive your own activities and ample opportunity to grow and develop. You are part of our local development team and have close cooperation with your colleagues world-wide. The position does not include responsibility for employees.

You will travel about 20% of your working time.

Qualifications

What is required to succeed in the role of Product Manager?

We are looking for someone who has several years of experience working as a product manager. 

To be successful in this position, we expect you to be goal-oriented, bring a lot of power of initiative, and have the ability to gain the trust of the people you communicate with, at the same time as you are unprestigious. We believe that you thrive in a role with both customer contact and technology focus.

You have a great understanding and interest in technology, at the same time as you have the ability to create a strategy around this vision, and drive a plan to execute. You have a good ability to lead projects forward and to communicate and engage those around you.

If you also already have the experience from working with global customers and competition experience with diverse, global teams in a matrix environment in the field of water and wastewater, - this job will be perfect for you!

We offer you the opportunity to join a Group whose goal is to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation! ????????

Additional Information

What are the advantages of joining us?

• Be part of a forward-thinking collaborative team who will focus on your future career and development both locally and internationally
• Possibility to be part of exciting projects outside of your daily work/ scope for your company
• We are committed to ensure you have the best experience possible
• Veolia is committed to a global social pact for its employees in all its geographic regions.

Here at Veolia Water Technologies, we know that some applicants don't apply unless they think they tick all the boxes - but we are saying don't worry! We would much rather see your application than risk missing out on your potential!

Send in your CV and personal letter as soon as you have the opportunity as selection is ongoing.

In this recruitment we collaborate with the recruitment firm ROI. Please apply by visiting this site: https://roirekrytering.se/lediga-jobb/global-product-manager/

Employment with: Hydrotech/Veolia Water Technologies AB

Scope: Full-time

Location: At our office in Vellinge- Sweden

Start: By agreement

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.