Senior Product Manager

Location:

Turnhout – Flanders, Belgium

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

Main Industry:

Search Management & Executive Jobs

Other Industries & Skills:

Education & Training Purchasing & Supply Chain

Advertiser:

Dover Corporation

Job ID:

131505174

Posted On:

14 January 2025

Job Requisition ID: 59017

Department: Sales & Marketing (DEPT_SALMRKT)

At Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS), we are taking fueling and convenience retail to the next level. We are passionate about cultivating excellence in everything we do, but what really fuels us is our people. They’re the heart of our company. As an employee, our promise to you is that you’ll work on new and innovative products and solutions, be mentored by managers and teammates who are collaborative, caring, and act with integrity, and have the opportunity to grow in ways that are meaningful to you. Unique and interesting projects – both locally and globally – will challenge you and allow you to pursue different and rewarding career paths.

We are #EnergizedByGrowth.

DFS is part of a legacy of leadership that spans back generations, made up of some of the most trusted, leading-edge brands in the industry. As part of Dover Corporation and with our talented, innovative, outstanding people, we are doing great things and redefining what is possible in fueling and convenience retail. Providing advanced fuel-dispensing equipment, including clean energy solutions, systems and payment, automatic tank gauging and wet stock-management solutions, DFS comprises the product brands of Wayne Fueling Systems, OPW Fuel Management Systems, ClearView, Tokheim, ProGauge, Fairbanks, LIQAL, AvaLAN, and Bulloch Technologies. Headquartered in Austin, TX, DFS has a significant technology development and manufacturing presence worldwide, including facilities in Brazil, China, India, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Position Summary

You will be part of the Systems & Payment Product management team in the EMEA region. You will be responsible for managing the current and future hardware product lines of the Systems & Payment Business Unit and ensuring that our products meet current and future market and customer needs. Typical products today are (outdoor) payment terminals and Point-of-Sales and forecourt control hardware. These are currently produced in our factories in Bladel (NL) and Dundee (UK).

As a Sr. Product Manager, your goal is to translate customers’ needs or market trends into new or improved products in close collaboration with the related Sales and Engineering teams. You will have ownership during the full product life cycle from initiation to end of life.

Key Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

-Drive product development and manage the main product portfolio of hardware products within the Systems & Payment Business Unit
-Work closely with the product management team and engineering teams to align product family development, vision, the voice of the market, competitive analysis into new product and product enhancement decisions, development and delivery
-Work closely with operations to ensure a successful introduction in the production environment, including the readiness of product configurator tools (ordering tools), and with marketing and commercial teams to ensure a successful launch of new products into the market
-Provide a long-term vision, roadmaps and positioning for the hardware platforms, services and capabilities
-Leading and defining projects (and product requirements) from A to Z (cost, timing, deliverables) in collaboration with engineering teams, commercial teams, distributors and customers
-Coordinate product certification and compliance activities and m

onitor product quality
-Drive product cost (out), margin and price analysis, in cooperation with finance, sourcing and engineering
-Production monitoring & analysis, monitoring

 the supply chain overview and developing

 & maintaining product documentation
-You are part of a multifunctional team with a broad range of responsibilities, a high degree of flexibility in your daily work is required
 

Profile

-Master’s degree or Bachelor’s (Electro)mechanics with 5–10 years of business experience, in a mixed commercial & technical environment
-Possess a unique blend of business and technical knowledge with the ability to articulate the business case for the products
-Experience in product management within a manufacturing environment, project management or business management would be an advantage
-Good sense of business commerce (understanding financials and market problems)
-Understand & assess the competition and set a strategy against them to win
-Strong interpersonal and communication skills
-Creative and analytical thinker,

process-minded (product development processes)
-Customer-driven and 

able to work with deadlines in a dynamic project-based environment
-Great team player and able to work independently
-Fluent in English and Dutch with good presentation skills
 

#LI-PJ1

 

Work Arrangement : Hybrid 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other factors prohibited by law.

This position may be located in: EMEA : Netherlands : Bladel : Bladel

Job Function : Manufacturing & Operations; Product Development; Project & Program Management

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