Product Manager Industrial Connectors (m/w/d)

Schweiz

Stäubli is a global industrial and mechatronic solution provider with four dedicated Divisions: Electrical Connectors, Fluid Connectors, Robotics and Textile, serving customers who aim to increase their productivity in many industrial sectors. Stäubli currently operates in 28 countries, with agents in 50 countries on four continents. Its global workforce of 6,000 shares a commitment to partnering with customers in nearly every industry to provide comprehensive solutions with long-term support.

Stäubli Electrical Connectors develops highly reliable connection solutions based on the MULTILAM contact technology. In the field of photovoltaics, Stäubli is a pioneer and global market leader with its MC4 connector portfolio. Stäubli provides connections for life in industries such as renewable energies, industrial automation applications, power transmission and distribution, railway, welding automation, test and measurement, medical devices and E-mobility.

Do you want to take on responsibility and have a global impact on our product portfolio of an industrial line of electrical connectors? We're searching for a team player who's eager to drive our portfolio to market leadership according to set targets.

The place of work is located in Allschwil at our divsion headquarters of Electrcial Connectors.

Your responsibilities

As Product Manager you will oversee a range of electrical connectors for the industry business line, prioritizing global strategy, market focus, and roadmap creation to secure market leadership. You will drive product growth and innovation, aligning with core business objectives and acting as the customer and market advocate to meet strategic Business Unit goals.

Your main responsibilities are:

As Product Manager you will oversee a range of electrical connectors for the industry business line, prioritizing global strategy, market focus, and roadmap creation to secure market leadership. You will drive product growth and innovation, aligning with core business objectives and acting as the customer and market advocate to meet strategic Business Unit goals.

Your main responsibilities are:

• Overseeing product portfolio development, market analysis, customer demand, pricing strategy and life cycle in collaboration with sales,and business development, engineering, marketing and other teams.
• Crafting product portfolio vision and growth strategy in key market segments.
• Creating a customer focused roadmap and business cases for projects that meet global customer requirement and outperform competition.
• Guaranteeing successful product launches with action plans for any disparities and supporting marketing campaign implementation.
• Collaborating closely with internal technical experts, including standards, approvals, and patent rights experts, to initiate new developments or adapt the existing portfolio with new requirements.
• Tracking global trends, assessing customer needs and potential industry disruptions. Performing competitive analysis, informing strategic planning and USPs. Developing product specs and business cases for new products.
• Identifying new opportunities and providing strategic inputs to R&D for futuristic technological developments.
• Provide product expertise to sales and business development for technical inquiries including trainings.
• Monitoring the performance of the portfolio through KPIs and communicating results to upper management and present action plans.
• Proactively contributes to enhancing Product Management methodologies by identifying process bottlenecks and areas for execution improvement.
• Collaborating with the Marketing Communications (MarCom) team to suggest innovative marketing strategies to engage customers, through online and print media, and playing a pivotal role in developing concepts and content for product communication materials including catalogs, flyers, and assembly instructions.

Profile

To be successful in this role, you should possess strong engineering and product management skills, with a clear orientation towards business and performance. Also, you should have proven ability to work collaboratively with and influence teams and individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds.

• Higher technical education, preferably in engineering (electrical, electronics, mechanical) complemented by training in marketing or business administration.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in a similar role within an international B2B environment.
• Experience in the medical industry is desirable.
• Sound knowledge in electrical connectors or electronic industry.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills in both German and English.
• Ability to use hard data and metrics to support assumptions, recommendation, and drive actions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and capability to perform well in deadline-driven environments, with meticulous attention to detail and multitasking competence.
• Experience in collaborating with and influencing cross-functional teams.

Our Offer:

• A globally active Swiss family business with strong market position and innovative, high-performance solutions.
• An appreciative corporate culture and motivated employees who work with you to overcome daily challenges.
• The advantages of a medium-sized company as well as those of an international group.
• The opportunity to work on future-oriented technologies.
• Many other benefits such as flexible working hours, the option to work partly from home, a wide range of internal training opportunities, parking spaces, additional bridging days, modern workstations and much more.

People, Passion, Performance, Partnership are the values we live by.

Do we fit together? Let's find out! We look forward to receiving your application!

Maja Wermelinger-de Vos

HR Business Partner

Stäubli Electrical Connectors AG

Stockbrunnenrain 8

4123 Allschwil / Switzerland

Tel. Nr:+41 61 306 56 71

www.staubli.com/karriere