This role sits above Engineering and Manufacturing product domains to enable Smart Factory outcomes through organisational development and platform integration, ensuring the landscape (especially PLM and MES) evolves as a coherent product set - with clear strategies, adoption plans, and measurable value. As a Senior Manufacturing and Engineering Product Manager, your mission is to maximise the value delivered by multiple digital products by defining clear product strategies, aligning roadmaps with business priorities, and enabling Product Owners and teams to deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable solutions. You will report to the Head of IT Product or Product Stream Lead.
You will: • Define and own product strategies and roadmaps for a group of products, ensuring alignment with business goals and product stream direction. • Lead, coach, and support multiple Product Owners, enabling strong product ownership and consistent value delivery • Partner with senior business stakeholders to shape priorities, challenge assumptions, and balance demand with delivery capacity • Oversee product delivery and performance, ensuring progress against roadmaps and continuous improvement of outcomes. • Act as an escalation point for complex product, delivery, and stakeholder issues. • Ensure security, compliance, and risk considerations are appropriately addressed across all products in scope. Scope and focus • Smart factory enablement (organisation + capability): drive the non-technical enablers required to scale (standard ways of working, training pathways, governance, adoption model, site rollout patterns). • PLM + MES integration into the enterprise landscape: ensure engineering definition, execution data, and operational traceability connect cleanly through the lifecycle, aligned with target architecture principles. • Portfolio coherence across products: align roadmaps across dependent products (e.g., engineering definition -> manufacturing execution) and manage trade-offs across functions/sites.
Organisational development • Build and execute an organisational development plan for smart factory enablement: capability assessment, role definitions, onboarding approach, and training/CoP patterns. • Help define the skills and talent required for the future operating model (product, data, OT/IT integration, automation, adoption/change).
Stakeholders / interfaces • Manufacturing leadership and plant stakeholders (adoption, value, rollout and standardisation). • Engineering leadership (PLM-enabled process alignment, change control direction). • Architecture and platform stakeholders (target architecture principles; integration standards; platform governance). • Technical Council, Ops Council and MTFF
What "great" looks like (deliverables and outcomes) • A multi-year product strategy and integrated roadmap for Manufacturing and Engineering digital enablement, explicitly addressing PLM/MES/ERP touchpoints and adoption sequencing. • A clear governance and decision-rights model that supports standardisation while respecting site realities (and provides a path to reduce duplication). • Demonstrable progress on integration value: reducing manual handovers, improving traceability, and improving data consistency between engineering and execution systems. • Enable Product Owners through coaching, standards, and consistent product practice, acting as an escalation point where cross-domain conflicts arise.
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.
To succeed, you will need We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role. You have A minimum of 7 years of experience, working in Product Management, IT delivery, or a comparable role with responsibility for digital products and teams. • Proven experience defining and delivering product strategies across multiple products. • Strong experience engaging and influencing senior business stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop Product Owners or cross-functional teams. • Solid understanding of Agile ways of working and how to measure and improve product performance. Experience/skills emphasis • Strong product management across multiple products and complex stakeholders; ability to define strategy and translate it into actionable roadmaps. • Understanding of smart factory concepts (IT/OT convergence, connected manufacturing systems) and what it takes to scale adoption. • Solid literacy in PLM/MES/ERP roles and how they work together in discrete manufacturing contexts (integration, data handoffs, traceability).
- Culture of trust and accountability
- Lifelong learning and career growth
- Innovation powered by people
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits
- Health and well-being
This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site at our sites in UK, Germany, Brno, US, India
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