Product Manager - Sliding Bearings

As Product Manager you will be involved overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to market launch and beyond. In this role you will be collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to ensure that products meet customer needs and business objectives. By conducting market research, analyzing customer feedback, and monitoring industry trends, the Product Manager identifies opportunities for innovation and improvement. The role is crucial in defining product roadmaps, as well as managing BCP and product liability analysis

• Must have a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar - master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Business or similar is preferred
• 5-10 years experience in designing engineering, mechanical engineering, concept engineering, R&D engineering required.
• Must be able to develop and implement product strategies that align with business goals and market demands.
• Lead and facilitate cross functional project teams, with influence. Highly effective in team environment and project management. Able to boundary span.
• 2-5 years experience in product management (physical products not digital products) preferred.
• Proficiency in Market research in conducting market analysis to understand customer needs, industry trends, and competitive landscape.
• Having working knowledge of agile working methodologies.
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  Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal skills

  
  

Saint-Gobain's innovations touch almost every major industry around the world, moving us forward, making meaningful connections, and inspiring us to go beyond the impossible. Within Mobility, our teams design and engineer critical, high-performance materials and proven solutions - most in challenging conditions and core systems that play an important part of our daily lives - as we drive to work or with family, fly on an airplane to explore the world, process samples for medical research, build a better rocket to go as far as we can in outer space; and dive deep under the sea to power our world. We are driven to collaborate with our customers and communities to improve and engineer the world of tomorrow!

Our team members recognize that we all create the environment for people to succeed, with a culture built on respect, open and honest communication, and honoring our commitments to our customers and each other. And at the heart of our culture, we've learned working together makes good ideas, great ones.

With a legacy dating back more than 350 years, Saint-Gobain offers employees the stability and security of a leading Global 500 corporation while operating like multiple small and agile start-ups, where entrepreneurial spirit, pioneering teamwork, and bold, forward-thinking ideas pave new paths.

Every team member is encouraged to develop and leverage their unique expertise and strengths to make the greatest impact on the company and our end users. At Saint-Gobain, you're empowered and equipped with countless opportunities and resources for professional development. You will find the support you need to create a vision and roadmap for your career, and make that vision a reality.

Invent yourself at Saint-Gobain Mobility, and together, we'll achieve the impossible!

Essential functions include:

• Developing a deep understanding of customer needs and market trends that is used to create and maintain the product roadmap for sliding bearings. Continually assess the product value propositions, pricing and margins and recommend back to H1/H2 leadership teams actions to be taken as a result.
• Develop specifications for R&D projects to develop, improve or create new materials for the product line. Translate customer/market requirements into technical ones
• Assess, launch and support marketing campaigns and tools for new product launches and boosting existing technology (regional). Includes generating (and/or organising the generation) of marketing content (e.g. website copy etc.)
• Product Training - train sales/engineering on new products that are being launched. Be available to support at customer visits / shows
• Analysing competitive landscape, reporting to the business and adapting product strategy if needed
• Assess product liability and BCP and ensure that strategies are generated for both topics. Work with sites to generate the required documentation for new products

Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.