Product Manager Fire Control Panels - Integrated Systems 80-100%

Together with our customers, we combine the real and digital worlds

With technology, software and services for smart buildings, we transform the everyday for everyone. By combining the real and digital worlds, we empower our customers to reach their decarbonization goals, lower their operating costs and create world-class occupant experiences for their people. It’s not just about improving buildings – it’s about creating efficient, safe, adaptable and sustainable environments, which improve the way the world lives and works.

As a pioneer in the global building industry, we as Building Products – Fire Safety Business team change how people live and work in buildings by connecting the digital and the physical world. Our global business involves many fields from detection, alarming, evacuation and extinguishing to danger and building management, as well as cloud-based solutions for remote site management. With our broad offering we ensure the protection of people, assets and businesses with the highest performance and efficiency.

We are looking for a new colleague to complement our diverse team of product managers for our Fire Control Panel Portfolio at Siemens Building Products. Are you intrinsically motivated, well-organized, and confident when challenging the status quo? Then join our team and help us creating environments that care!

Location: this role will be based in Zug/Switzerland. Please note that qualified candidates need to be legally eligible for work authorization in Switzerland.

Your new responsibilities

• Active management of our fire control panels life cycle including responsibility for market-derived pricing, profitability, demand planning and roadmap creation in consideration of European norms and regulations
• Initiate actions to continuously improve portfolio metrics to strengthen our market position
• Plan and conduct market launch as well as phase-outs in close collaboration with our sales colleagues in our focus countries
• Analyze markets, competitors and technology trends and incorporate the findings into proposals to upper management
• Define, prioritize and validate requirements for product enhancements together with our R&D and product management colleagues and customers
• Monitor the business figures and actively handle deviations to achieve the product performance and growth; e.g. sales, profitability, availability, quality
• Coordinate activities with external partners and manufacturers together with colleagues from purchasing
• Be the guide regarding our competition, customers, and the overall market. Optimize your portfolio accordingly and gather emerging opportunities around your product

Your Talents and Experience

• University degree or higher education in engineering, business engineering or equivalent qualification
• Ideally 5 years of product management experience, preferably within a B2B environment, or technical project manager with a solid track record
• Experience within the Fire Safety industry or related building management systems / services
• Solid understanding of business economics and/or financials paired with long-term strategic attitude
• Experience in lean/agile development (e.g. SAFe) is a plus
• Resilient in challenging situations, with a structured and analytical approach to problem-solving
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, team-player and able to build trust with internal and external partners
• Business fluent in English. German and any other European language skills are an advantage

Employee benefits: local benefits apply

What it’s like working for us
We place significant emphasis on fostering an inclusive and flexible working culture that encourages everyone to be their authentic selves. Equal opportunities and diversity are important to us and contribute to an enriching culture. We actively embrace mobile working to provide every colleague with more autonomy and the chance to achieve a good work-life balance. Learn more here

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I look forward to receiving your application

Carmen
Talent Acquisition Partner

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