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Senior Product Manager Technical Building Products
Job summary
A construction materials firm seeks a Senior Product Manager to oversee a crucial product portfolio. This role involves leading the product vision and roadmap, ensuring compliance with performance standards, and managing the product lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building materials, particularly with cementitious products, and experience in changing environments. Located in the UK, applicants from the North West or West Midlands are preferred.
Qualifications
- Experience in the building materials ecosystem.
- Comfortable operating in changing environments.
- Experience with cementitious products, paint & coatings, adhesives & sealants.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the product vision and roadmap.
- Ensure compliance with performance and quality standards.
- Manage the product lifecycle through strategic and hands-on marketing.
Skills
Our client is a privately owned, international manufacturer in the construction sector, recognised for its technical systems and strong commitment to sustainability.
The group operates across multiple continents with several thousand employees and has been growing rapidly, underpinned by significant investment in R&D, new production facilities and a clear ESG agenda, including B Corp status. The business is transitioning from a centrally led model to a more empowered, regionally driven structure. A new regional leadership team is in place and has been tasked with professionalising operations, strengthening service levels and tripling regional revenues over the next few years. This includes expanding into new customer channels, improving product mix and preparing for substantial new manufacturing and logistics capacity coming on stream later in the next few years.
As part of this transformation, the company is creating a senior product leadership role to take full ownership of a strategically important portfolio of technically complex construction materials. A detailed review has highlighted the need to lift technical standards, tighten compliance and introduce a far more rigorous, market-led approach to product strategy and lifecycle management.
- Reporting to the UK Marketing leader, the Senior Product Manager will act as the expert owner for their product system in the region. They will define and execute the product vision and roadmap, leading development, optimisation, and launch projects using the group’s formal project frameworks.
- Work closely with R&D, technical, operations, and sales teams, ensuring that products meet or exceed relevant performance, quality, and regulatory requirements.
- Combine strategic product management, hands-on product marketing and cross-functional project leadership to manage the lifecycle of the product portfolio.
- Commercially sharp, technically credible product leader from within the building materials ecosystem, with deep experience of system-based products, strong cross-functional influence and a track record of driving category performance in demanding markets.
- Comfortable operating in a changing environment, helping to stabilise and then upscale a critical product area, while supporting the development of a relatively new marketing leadership team.
- Experience with cementitious products, paint & coatings, adhesives & sealants, flooring systems and preparation, or ceramics; open to other technical building products and systems.
Candidates will ideally live in either the North West or the West Midlands, for easy access to one of their offices.
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