Global Product Manager

The Zumtobel Group is an international lighting group and a leading supplier of innovative lighting solutions, lighting components and associated services. With its core brands, Zumtobel, Thorn and Tridonic, the Group offers its customers around the world a comprehensive portfolio of products and services.

Who we are: ZUMTOBEL - an international group in the lighting industry
We are passionate about designing and producing light that empowers humans and brings architecture to life. We continuously push the boundaries in our search for perfection through timeless design, technical excellence, superb craftsmanship and efficient performance. We know that light can create the right environment for people to thrive. Light can spark our imagination, stir our emotions and create spaces that inspire. As we develop the next generation of lighting, we consider more than the obvious. Our lighting is designed for our customers and their individual aspirations. We guide our customers into a new world of opportunities. Join Zumtobel, and help us lighting up the world

Our Zumtobel Product Management (PM) Team "Trunking Systems & Protected Luminaires": experts working together to push boundaries and inspire the market
The main goal of our "Trunking Systems & Protected Luminaire" team is to offering our clients the best lighting solutions for the following applications - retail, industry, chemical, food processing, education and offices. The Product Management is in charge of overseeing the worldwide Product Management of a this portfolio taking into account related emergency lighting and connectivity products, as well as digital solutions and services for the Zumtobel and Thorn Brands in clear alignment with the company's brand, application and sustainability strategy.

What it's all about: manage the entire product lifecycle and innovate the next generation of lighting solution worldwide - TECTON, our bestseller
As Global Product Manager you oversee the entire product lifecycle - from the creation of ideas to phase out of the relevant applications. You are responsible for identifying opportunities and lead to growth through innovation and change, while still maintaining the fundamental business goals and priorities. You oversee all activities for the ZUMTOBEL Brand on a worldwide scale, paying particular attention to goal-setting for each your product range. You will work in a team of 4+ passionate Product Managers at our headquarter in Dornbirn (Austria).

Your job

• Developing, defining & implementing the Product Roadmap: You drive disruptive product breakthroughs by developing a global product roadmap from ideation, product specification, make-or-buy decision to launch. You oversee the complete life cycle including hardware, software, and services in order to reach market share targets. With proactive collaboration with sales, brands and R&D, you ensure that the roadmap is implemented in the market.
• Gathering trends & providing innovation:
  In order to identify competitive attributes and value proposition, you collaborate with Market Intelligence and Sales to analyse global markets, technologies, competitors and customer trends. By using advanced methodologies and tools you stay ahead by identifying customer needs, opportunities, and risks for strategic positioning against competition.
• Providing trainings & presentations: You provide product and application knowledge through inspiring in-depth trainings, demonstrations and presentations for customers and other stakeholders and sales teams in particular.
• Managing, monitoring & evaluating the performance: You are bearing the full responsibility for the product families' profitability alignment with company goals ensuring on-time, on-cost delivery and strategic positioning, while supporting marketing plans and optimizing pricing strategies. You keep an eye on and assess the portfolio's performance in conjunction with the brands to facilitate investment decisions.
• Collaboration & Communication: You collaborate with convenience and provide a level-one interfaces with all relevant stakeholders - Application Management, Brand Marketing, Pricing, Sales, Product Development, PMO, Innovation Hub, Global Launch Management, Market Intelligence, Production as the crucial link to achieve the best results for our customers and our business plan.

You're a magnetic, charismatic personality with an empowering, inspiring communication, an empathic, supporting working style combined with an unifying enthusiasm for Product Management.

• You have successfully completed a bachelor degree with either a profound technical understanding or very strong interest in technology.
• You gained 2+ years comparable experience and demonstrated success within a product management, sales or a product focused role, ideally in an technology-, industrial-, B2B-, electro-mechanical equipment goods-, consumer electronics environment.
• Due to your excellent quantitative and analytical skills, your strategic, modern, entrepreneurial, problem solving mindset it is easy for you to create product-roadmaps and -portfolios and implement it with your ideally professional project-management skills and/or your very organized way of working - that is your success factor.
• You have exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate, influence and challenge confidently across all levels, orchestrating interdisciplinary, decentralized and remote team into an outstanding success.
• You are an enthusiastic, dialogue-oriented and committed team player.
• You have an curious, agile mindset and you are open to new ideas, trends and topics. You care about "Sustainability" issues and this influences your decisions.
• You are a passionate and excited person who enjoys presenting, telling stories and communicating in a very pleasant, credible and empathic way, fluent in English and ideally in German as well.
• Personally you have a "never to give up" attitude and a "walk the talk" mentality combined with an authentic, close binding, consistent, trustful, self-confident and resilient appearance.
• You support the brand's and its product offers' external market presence by being willing to travel abroad (20% of the time).

• Successful, international group with family DNA.
• Varied field of activity with personal responsibility.
• Numerous opportunities for further development in an innovative and empowering company.
• Great team that will support you in any situation.
• Individual options to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
• Extensive benefits for our employees.

Legally binding notice: Based on the minimum salary stipulated in the collective agreement of € 61.377,- p.a. (for a 38,50-hour working week), the actual salary for this position is based on professional qualifications and experience.

Enlightening your career
We curiously discover new fields of work together, our mentoring program is meant to support you to fully develop your skills and potentials.

International perspective
Be part of a network of creativity and high-tech and contribute to an ecosystem that enables you to realize your potential within multinational, intercultural teams.

Work-Life-Balance
Your best individual work-life balance will vary over time, often on a daily basis, this is why we offer flexible working-models and sabbatical options for our employees.

Open-minded and respectful culture
Working for the ZG means to be a part of an open-minded and passionate culture based on the spirit of the company's founder Dr. Walter Zumtobel.

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