Product Manager

Product Management and Business Development, Switzerland

Job title: Product Manager

VN: 2752

Business Unit: Leica Metrology (HexMet) CH (EUR)

Location: Unterentfelden

Short description:
Based in Switzerland to support one of our portable 3D measurement product ranges. This particular product is highly successful, with sales in 2021 to over 40 markets on 6 continents. Our customers are many of the world’s leading manufacturers, in sectors such as automotive, aerospace, energy generation and medical. Your role will be to take full ownership of the product range, by identifying market opportunities and developing products to fit them.

Tasks in detail:
Identify market opportunities by developing and maintaining relationships with our sales teams around the world, to understand how our customers use our technology today and what they might want from it tomorrow. It is also essential that you are able to maintain a clear view of what differentiates our products from our competitors’.
You will take full ownership of the products (hardware and supporting software) by creating business plans, requirements documents, product profitability calculations and other documents. These documents will be used to formulate R&D projects, to be managed on a milestone basis.
At each milestone, you will be expected to meet specific objectives by reviewing documents, and / or submitting documents for review to project stakeholders. Some projects are already running. You will take ownership for these too.
Close collaboration with our R&D teams (CH & FR). This will involve regular team discussions and visits to check on progress, review project requirements and set priorities.
Provide our marketing teams with a ‘direction’ prior to product launch.
Management of the product life-cycle, through regular communication with our factories and Service and Support teams. You will be expected to define life-cycle tasks and set priorities.

**Requirements**:
Engineering Degree/Diploma
Some knowledge of current manufacturing trends is essential
Knowledge of 3D measurement (particularly 3D scanning) would be a bonus
Fluent English is essential. German and/or French would be beneficial
Knowledge of Microsoft Office is essential, knowledge of Jira, Confluence or Miro would be beneficial
Some travel (approx. 30%)

About Hexagon

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