Product Manager, Fixed Case and Tote Storage(m/w/d)

Description

The company is hiring a Senior Product Manager for Case & Tote Storage in EMEA to run regional execution and commercial results for its shuttle and ultra-high-density storage range.

The role links regional customer and market needs to the global Case & Tote Storage strategy. You turn that strategy into workable roadmaps, lead cross-functional development and sales launch work, and make sure products can be sold, delivered, supported and improved over their full life.

You bring commercial judgment, technical understanding and hands-on leadership. You build business cases, work closely with engineering and operations, and keep the focus on products that deliver customer value and profitable growth.

Responsibilities

• Build and own execution roadmaps, schedules, milestones and delivery plans for your product lines.
• Run the tollgate process from TG00 to TG90, covering review readiness, risk closure, decision records, cycle time and on-time delivery.
• Manage products through new introduction, beta deployment, commercial release, sustaining, modernization and sunset.
• Keep product requirements, lifecycle status, configuration rules and commercial-readiness evidence current.
• Rank development and sustaining work by customer impact, commercial value, execution risk and strategic fit.
• Where no project manager is assigned, lead the product team and set a steady rhythm for status, risks, dependencies, escalations and decisions.
• Keep product business cases accurate and hold development spending within approved budgets and investment assumptions.
• Track and report product-line results: orders, revenue, margin, win/loss/drop insights, investment and major commercial risks.
• Support market-based pricing, value propositions, sales enablement and regional opportunity reviews.
• Supply product input to STRAP, AOP, budget prioritization and lifecycle planning.
• Be the main Case & Tote Storage product partner for EMEA sales, solution development, project delivery, customer service, manufacturing, procurement and regional leadership.
• Own EMEA readiness and uptake of globally built products, covering regional requirements, product gaps, launch dependencies and delivery constraints.
• Get EMEA priorities into global product decisions while limiting unneeded regional variants.
• Support EMEA customer opportunities, beta sites, modernization needs and serious field issues.
• Collect customer and project feedback and turn it into ranked product improvements.
• Work closely with global Product Management and with European R&D, sustaining, manufacturing and product support.
• Work with R&D and engineering to set requirements, weigh technical trade-offs, manage risk and keep development on schedule.
• Coordinate Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Solution Development, Project Execution, Customer Service, Marketing, Technical Publications, Training and external partners.
• Maintain the product tools and artifacts you own: GPC, SRRs, product requirements, roadmap content and Solution Delivery documentation.
• Make sure documentation, training, configuration data, application guidance and sales materials are ready before commercial release.
• Work with Marketing and Communications on launches, customer material, internal news, demos and trade shows.
• Make sure commitments can be delivered, commissioned, serviced and supported consistently.
• Build a working understanding of EMEA customer needs, market trends, competitors and project challenges.
• Talk with customers and customer-facing teams to gather feedback and find improvement opportunities.
• Advocate for customers while balancing standardization, technical feasibility, lifecycle cost and business-case integrity.
• Help sales and solution teams judge product fit, spot gaps and shape repeatable solutions.
• Use market data, competitor insight, customer feedback and project experience to guide roadmap and investment choices.
• Own the Multishuttle product line and its shuttle, lift, racking, conveyor, extraction, controls and software elements.
• Own ultra-high-density storage offerings, including AutoStore products and integration.
• Oversee emerging and adjacent case-and-tote technology, such as future shuttle and bin-to-person capabilities where assigned.
• Plan sustainment, modernization, transition or sunset for legacy products, including Miniload where applicable.
• Manage the interfaces needed for complete customer solutions: workstations, controls, software and Solution Delivery artifacts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science or another technical field.
• 8-10 years of product management or closely related product leadership, including ownership of complex technical products.
• 3+ years in material handling, intralogistics, warehouse automation or supply-chain technology.
• Proven record leading complex cross-functional development, commercialization or lifecycle programs.
• Experience delivering products through a formal development or tollgate process.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong commercial and strategy skills: business cases, budgets, revenue, margin, pricing and portfolio trade-offs.
• Solid technical base across mechanical, electrical, controls and software.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, prioritization and leadership in a global, cross-functional setting.
• Preferred: a master's degree or MBA in engineering.
• Preferred: five or more years of direct project management experience or PMP certification.
• Strongly preferred: experience with shuttle, goods-to-person or ultra-high-density storage technologies.

Conditions

Travel up to 25%, including customer sites, EMEA facilities, trade shows and global R&D or Product Management sites.

Benefits

• Perks of working for a large listed group in the MDAX index.
• Room to be creative at a company that is growing quickly.
• Work that can be flexible and mobile.
• Tailored support for your development.
• Employee discounts.