Product Manager - Outdoor Living Solutions

Description

The role is based in Winchester, Virginia.

You would shape the product and portfolio plan for Outdoor Living Solutions.

The company is a tire maker that supplies automotive manufacturers, industrial clients and end customers worldwide. Founded in 1871, it posted €39.7 billion in sales in 2024 and employs about 95,000 people across 54 countries and markets.

Its industrial specialist sector serves off-highway, rail, road, air, food and furniture customers. It has about 39,000 employees in more than 40 countries, reported sales of about €6.4 billion in 2024, and core sites in Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

Responsibilities

• Set the product and portfolio strategy and keep it aligned with the overall portfolio strategy.
• Communicate the product strategy inside and outside the company.
• Turn market trends, customer needs and competitor moves into portfolio strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Write proposals for portfolio and investment decisions for Segment Management.
• Connect product strategy to pricing logic and help support value-based pricing.
• Act as project lead to align Sales, Product Development, Marketing, Operations and Pricing toward value creation.
• Define, run, steer and maintain the product lifecycle process for your Business Fields, tied to the roadmap across launch, ramp-up and phase-out. Lead portfolio optimization, harmonization and complexity reduction, and review and maintain global product management processes to work more efficiently.
• Gather market, customer and competitor insight and turn it into product requirements and portfolio decisions.
• Collect the KPIs defined by the lifecycle process to monitor product performance.
• Define and keep current clear value propositions across the portfolio.
• Identify, rank and line up innovation opportunities with the product strategy and roadmap, and fold them into portfolio development.
• Make sure value propositions are communicated clearly and that product training content is available.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field.
• 2+ years in Product Management, Project Management, Strategy or Business Development in a relevant industrial setting.
• Experience leading cross-functional and international projects and running product or portfolio processes.
• Experience leading interdisciplinary teams, whether disciplinary or functional, and working in matrix organizations.
• Experience on international projects and travelling abroad to meet customers, partners and project sites.
• Leadership skills.
• Financial acumen.
• Communication skills, covering presentations and negotiation.
• Working knowledge of management methods and tools.
• General management understanding and business acumen.
• Knowledge of customer and competitor trends and moves.
• Understanding of marketing communication, focused on value propositions rather than execution.
• Project management skills for product and portfolio projects.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to define and steer product and portfolio strategy.
• Additional ways to stand out: 5+ years in Product Management, Project Management, Strategy or Business Development.

Conditions

Based in Winchester, Virginia.

Occasional travel is necessary.

You must already be legally allowed to work in the United States; the company will not sponsor employment visas for this role now or later.

Candidate information is kept confidential under EEO guidelines.