Product Manager

About the Role

Purpose: Act as the internal voice of the customer, ensuring a deep understanding of customer and market needs, identifying the value for the customer, and guiding engineering toward relevant, timely and reliable solutions, while ensuring that the overall product portfolio is competitive, aligned with market requirements and consistent with the company’s strategic objective.

Accountabilities, responsibilities and activities

Clear understanding of macro, regulatory, and technology trends shaping market growth for the assigned categories. Quantify market size, growth, key segments, and pinpoint opportunity areas. Evaluate how competitors are positioned and what best practices they follow. Recommend key opportunities and best practices to boost competitive position of company offering including the definition of pricing, target margin, sales strategy, and the assessment of commercial risk, including analysis of market scenarios and the identification of mitigation options. Accountable for assessing the strategic fit of a specific client request, prioritizing the opportunities and deciding whether to proceed with feasibility. Accountable for defining the structure of the offer to respond to market / customer needs. Supports the Project Manager and the Technical Project Leader in the definition of the project plan by setting the target cost for each module considering platform target price and expected margin. Accountable for validating that the designed product matches the user requirements specifications stated either internally (i.e., market-driven projects) or by the customer.

What You Need to Be Successful

• 8-10 years professional experience matured in context of manufacturing, engineering and purchasing
• Experience in mapping customer / market needs, and defining the critical product functions needed to meet them
• Experience in global, multi functional, project based organization
• Bachelor or Master Degree , preferably in a technical discipline (e.g., Engineering)
• Analytical skill
• Effective communication, both oral and written
• People leadership
• Collaborative teamwork
• Experience in automotive, consumer goods, medtech, or industrial automation is a plus

Coesia is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity and inclusion.