Country Product Manager - Nordics

Wallbox will further continue its expansion into global markets. Therefore the product department seeks to integrate specific market insights.

You will support the creation of a world-class product management discipline and team, maintaining close relationships with Global Product Managers and Product Owners.

For the Nordics markets that means:

• Understand current Wallbox portfolio.
• Understand user and market needs.
• Align the specific product strategy and roadmap in the assumption of a worldwide product family with regional variants.

You will be the strategic partner while:

• Shepherd products from ideation to development, monitor product health throughout its life, and collaborate in the EOL and transition in your region.
• Identify strategic market gaps to develop new product concepts.
• Work with Technology team to identify emerging technologies and trends to incorporate into the product roadmap.
• Provide product-offering content to the marketing organization for the creation of collateral, sales tools and marketing programs and events and drive the winning proposition. Participate in RFI and RFQ, plus defense.
• Work internally with operations, finance, risk, legal and other BBH functional areas on the planning and execution of an specific strategic product development roadmap.
• Generate a comprehensive product region reporting with quantitative and qualitative data.

You will be accountable for:

• accomplishing your KPI which will be business, reliability and product margin oriented.
• manage a cost reduction plan in view of OEM needs where the product margin is key
• developing product concepts and region strategy together with the global product manager.
• designing the product region roadmap, based on improving or developing functionalities to ensure that products must have to compete in its range in the market, as well as to face the regulations. Short and medium-term vision.
• follow up the overall project plan. Keep dates and maintain close communication within development (Engineering) and manufacturing (Operations), among other departments service, sales, quality.

Technical expertise: Able to push back on engineering estimates and understand technical constraint without needing to consult a teammate. They represent the engineering team when talking to other functions like design, legal, and sales. Engineering skills will be highly appreciated to discuss product’s technical architecture.

Hardware knowledge on power electronics field or devices. Either consumer electronics or automotive related.

Software needn’t necessarily to be a software expert, but should have the technical acumen necessary to prioritise projects. A core understanding of product complexity from a code perspective ensures proper team collaboration, respect, and expectations. Maintaining a reliable code base is just as important as shipping new features to customers.

Data-driven, quick decision making. Product managers are the decision-makers when it comes to user experience—and given the time-sensitivity often associated with user issues, PMs must be able to make the right decisions in short periods of time.

As more companies embrace lean principles, releasing products or features early for the purpose of testing them in the market, rapid decision-making becomes increasingly more important. Product managers are not only responsible for flagging user issues, but also for putting out fires while remaining calm—all the while managing the multiple stakeholders involved in any product launch.

Design mindset, good design sense is a crucial skill as we focus on the importance of design to a great user experience. Understanding Wallbox design strategy and workflow is fundamental. It becomes necessary to work together with UI and UX, and to make suggestions when something doesn’t look or feel right.

Management, interdepartmental communication is at the heart of every PM role. From ensuring that designers and engineers are working on the highest-priority tasks to keeping secondary stakeholders such as sales, quality, operations, and data teams well aware of product changes, product managers must be on top of all team functions.

A PM must therefore be dependable and able to delegate, but at the same time willing to roll up his or her sleeves in a crunch. PMs to read and quickly respond to situations in ways that resonate with the affected individual(s), reducing the friction that would otherwise occur between business units or teams.
 

Languages:

Fluent Norwegian and English
 

For questions regarding the position, please contact Terje Helle, +47 992 70 023, or Tron Gjedrem, +47 951 94 010, at Prime Executive.

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Please upload your CV in English.