Product Manager (m/f/d) - Wall & Column

Your targets:

•    Drive integrated product management for Business Segment across entire product lifecycle
•    Foster product innovation & own feedback loop from markets/ customers into R&D and customer success

Your responsibilities:

Develop Business Segment product strategy
•    Develop and drive execution of BU/BS product strategy aligned with PERI’s overall objectives
•    Induce market research, identify customer needs and trends, and define (relevant) target markets
•    Handle the end to end perspective to maximize profitability and turnover

Drive product development in R&D
•    Foster cross-functional collaboration to conceptualize, plan, and execute new product development initiatives
•    Gather and prioritize product requirements, define product features and specifications
•    Supervising of R&D product development progress
•    Understanding of customer processes on site, continuous improvement and feedback to R&D hand in hand with PAE function
•    Being part of PERIs innovation initiatives. Research and analyze big construction trends, bringing foresight to the innovation process

Manage products across entire lifecycle
•    PM has ownership for Product Business Plans (development and implementation of product strategy)
•    Plan and coordinate launch of new products
•    Product lifecycle management: Monitor product performance, analyze customer feedback and competition, optimize features, determine phase-out and timely initialize new product development for replacement
•    Drive New Product Introduction incl. product and marketing documentation
•    Record, store and analyze product performance on jobsite processes (Centrio & BIM) 

Organize product trainings and support
•    Induce product trainings (internal and external stakeholders)
•    Ensure feedback loop into R&D and innovation process

Develop marketing guidelines incl. content strategy
•    Develop guidelines of product value propositions
•    Collaboration with Agency Team within Brand & Communications to prepare digital appearance & marketing materials for subsidiaries

Your advantages:

• Work and life in balance: We offer you mobile working and provide you with the appropriate technical equipment. In addition to flexible working time models and job sharing, our childcare and vacation care services ensure a better work-life balance
• Grow beyond yourself: Annual staff appraisals as well as further training advice and promotion support you in your professional development. In our PERI Academy, you can take advantage of a wide range of further training opportunities as well as free access to online learning platforms such as LinkedIn Learning and getAbstract
• Safe and healthy: Benefit from our health promotion (e.g. height-adjustable desks) as well as company fitness via EGYM or PERI company sports groups

Your profile:

•    5+ years of expertise in product management or sales engineer role with PERI or in the construction industry
•    Technical background and experience is an advantage not a requirement
•    Strong understanding of PERI’s product portfolio (with focus on wall formwork products)
•    Strong understanding of jobsite processes using formwork or substitution systems
•    Customer Centricity and proficiency in driving product management incl. innovation
•    Ability to think strategically and develop long-term product/ R&D strategies
•    English is a must have, German and other languages are benefitial.
•    Hands-on mentality
•    High willingness to travel worldwide (min 30%) for subsidiary and customer visits as well as market research purposes
•    Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills

At PERI, we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where diversity is encouraged and mutual respect is a priority. For this reason, we set a high value on a diverse
and equal team composition. We welcome applications regardless of ethnic origin as well as age, gender, religion, ideology, handicap or sexual identity and orientation.
This is a job offer of Peri-Werk Artur Schwörer GmbH & Co. KG.