IM Product Manager- EMEA

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Are you looking for your next career within a forward thinking, worldwide dynamic company. We at Protolabs® are one of the world leaders in the digital manufacturing revolution. Our activity are accelerated and automated production of prototypes and small series of plastic, metal and liquid silicone parts using 3 manufacturing processes in Europe: CNC machining, injection moulding and 3D printing.

Protolabs® is today the world’s fastest manufacturer of custom prototypes and on-demand production parts, capable of reducing production time by up to 1 working day.

We are growing rapidly, it now has more than 2,500 employees worldwide, including 700 in Europe. No two days are the same, so if you are looking for this in your next career, apply with us today.

The IM Product Manager will deliver on the top priorities for the global product management team:
• Understand, analyse and improve our offer: technologies, materials, services, etc.
• Market, pricing and service positioning insight
• Market and segmentation: differentiation and competition, position in the market; customer insight
• Customer experience: understand, analyse and improve; collaborate with ecommerce teams
• Own the product roadmap (offer expansion/portfolio management) for the assigned region and prioritize development work with global R&D all with the target to increase revenue at highest ROIC

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for profitable revenue growth of the assigned service-line within the defined region
• Responsible to champion and execute global efforts regionally.
• Responsible and accountable for regional market insights to inform product development, pricing, marketing and sales activities on regional factors and needs.
• Analyses service-line data to find trends and opportunities.
• Gathers and actions customer insights through voice of customer exercises like customer interviews and surveys. Conduct regular market research and competitive analyses to stay abreast of existing and new competitive threats and industry trends.
• Identifies and oversees implementation of envelope expansion efforts in line with the Global Product Roadmap through needs analysis.
• Supports and executes assigned product management processes, systems and initiatives; examples include, product launch, pricing software, and envelope expansions, respectively.
• Partners with service line development, process management and operational teams to direct and assist improvements and research activities in line with business and customer priorities.
• Responsible for partnering with sales and marketing to drive revenue.
• Responsible for local demand forecasts and demand planning for assigned services.
• Serves as subject matter expert for ongoing sales and service support.
• Develops and presents reports and business presentations to communicate business results, marketing insights and development plans to enable the business leaders’ decision making.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills / Experience:

• Professional experience in a similar role, for a product or service more than £15M in revenue in a business more than £50M in revenue.
• Proven track record of applying product management disciplines and cross-functional project execution.
• Ability to effectively speak and conduct work in English. Business fluency in German, would be an advantage, but not essential. Other European languages a plus.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 30% of worktime
• Exposure to software product management, software development and Agile

Aptitude / Competencies:

• Business acumen; practical, applied business judgment
• Proven ability to applied marketing sciences with little supervision
• Strong analytical capabilities and technical understanding
• Effective operating style, compatible with the Protolabs culture: collaborative, flexible, innovative, and results-oriented.
• Proven ability to foster collaboration and build alignment across regions and functional teams to achieve necessary results
• Proven track record of leading projects that successfully achieve milestones and complete deliverables
• Excellent communication skills
• Ideally international business experience
• Ability to operated in a matrix organization effectively and leading through influence opposed to hierarchical structure

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering (or related field), MBA or equivalent an advantage. Ideally work experience within manufacturing. Mechanical design experience a plus.

Work Environment:

Office -Mainly office based, Smart casual dress, flexible work pattern