Product Manager

Product Manager

As a Product Manager you will play a key role in defining and supporting a profitable growth strategy for Loma's product lines. With a growth mindset, you will help drive development activities and decisions that launch new products to market. The role leverages a first-hand understanding of market & technology, customer needs, product value propositions, expertise in the relevant product line, to help Loma achieve technological and commercial advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Works with the Innovation Director to set the vision and strategy for Loma's portfolio of products and takes on responsibility for the success of them.
• Analyse and translate market, trend, business and competitive intelligence. Has strong end user intimacy to gain the necessary insights, pain points and interview data to develop business cases to support time, resource and financial investment.
• Develop and maintain a product roadmap aligned with strategic priorities, and produce the high-level product requirements, iterating as necessary.
• Collaborate with all team members and provides the necessary leadership to deliver a stream of customer-backed innovations to market.
• Creates and champions the go to market strategy for assigned products, including positioning, pricing, and value proposition materials.
• Understands, develops, and communicates Loma's value propositions, to both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring everyone has the best possible understanding.
• Acts as a product evangelist, drives product launch and training, product sales and collaborates with the marketing team to create and implement marketing programs throughout the entire life cycle of the product.
• Collaborates with all R&D functions, Engineering Teams, Sales, Marketing, Management, Product Support, Stakeholders and other departments to ensure the successful realization of all new products.

Essential:

• Undergraduate degree in a technical, marketing or scientific discipline.
• Have demonstrable similar marketing/commercial experience within a comparable environment (food equipment, capital equipment, instrumentation, machinery, etc.) with a physical product.
• Experience in primary and secondary research methods, including voice of the customer and/or opportunity evaluation.
• A track record of developing value proposition materials and experience working closely with marketing and sales to deliver messages to end users.
• A well-developed hands-on approach, with strong communication, people and influencing skills to get things done.
• A global mindset. Must be culturally aware and be able to build constructive and effective relationships across the organization.
• A developed technical proficiency in Microsoft Office and other modern software tools.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally on trips as/when required.
• A role model of Loma's behaviors (Hands-on, One Team, Positive Mindset, delivering on our Commitments, Taking the Initiative).