Head of Product Stategy Positioning

Vor 3 Tagen


Thalwil, Schweiz u-blox Vollzeit

Head of Product Strategy Positioning is responsible for the overall product roadmap and portfolio as well as for the product line strategy of the Product Center Positioning. In this role you ensure that roadmap, portfolio and product line strategies are in line with the business and market situation and with the corporate strategy.
Together with your team you are responsible for definition of key value propositions of the products, pricing strategies and go to market activities in collaboration with the sales team.
In the definition phases of new platforms, products and features you oversee the collaboration between your team with the technology and development teams to ensure business driven priority setting as well as establishing feasible implementation plans according to the development process along the value stream.
You lead the product strategy team, where each product line having a direct reporting line to you, as well as to the product communication specialist.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for the overall product line strategies and the execution of them into the product roadmaps
- Management of the overall product portfolio of Positioning (GNSS) products, including:

- collecting market inputs, detecting market trends, identification of gaps in the product offering according to the strategic goals set in the product line strategies
- contributing to the definition of new product development projects
- Lead and develop the positioning team of product management professionals
- Establish and keep up contact and relation with key and lead customers, understanding use cases and identifying common needs
- Maintaining relationships with key players in the market
- Supervising commercial performance of product lines and product generations
- Monitoring competitors’ strategy and tactics and disseminate relevant learnings to management and sales organizations and to guide competition evaluation efforts
- Strengthen cross-functional work with the other PC strategy teams and with the Sales team to align the POS product roadmap with the overall company offering and to foster exchange of experience and information
- Represent product strategy in the product center management team
- Maintain close collaboration of product line and product managers with the development and technology teams in our agile setup
- Managing the innovation process until gate 1

**Key Accountabilities/Desired Outcomes**:

- Updated strategic goals which guide and align portfolio and roadmap according business needs and results/budget
- Defined processes for innovation, portfolio map and roadmap creation resulting in product deliveries that match sales and customer needs in time and quality
- Customer intimacy established to ensure problem/solution fit

**Key Competencies**:

- Behavioral
- High intrinsic motivation to drive and to succeed together with a dedicated and motivated team of product management individuals
- Willing and able to work with multi-cultural, multi-geographical and multi-disciplinary teams
- Strong team forming, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Technical/Hard Skills
- Experienced product management/marketing professional
- Knowledge of GNSS market and products
- Leadership skills
- Experience in leading and developing teams
- Strong networking skills with the ability to convince people
- Ability to translate strategy into actionable plans

**Profile**:

- Masters degree in relevant field, PhD/MBA is a plus
- Experience in GNSS domain is a plus
- Sales/Marketing background
- Understanding and experience with agile working processes and environment
- Willingness to travel 20-30%
- Fluent in English, other language skills are a plus

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