Product Manager, VELUX Commercial

International Product Manager for Flat Roof Windows – VELUX Commercial

Are you looking for a unique opportunity to bring your Product Management skillset- and your commercial mindset into play? Do you want to become a key contributor to our exciting growth journey? Then join us as International Product Manager at VELUX Commercial!

VELUX Commercial is a new division in the VELUX Group established in 2019 and comprises the former JET, Vitral and VELUX Modular Skylights organisations. Today, VELUX Commercial operates as one company with more than 1200 committed people in 13 countries and offers to support building professionals throughout the entire process from specification to delivery and maintenance of daylight and ventilation solutions for industrial, commercial and public buildings.

We are a fast-growing division with an informal tone, entrepreneurial spirit, ambition and a short route from idea to execution. This position is an excellent opportunity for anyone wanting to join a company with plenty of room to make a real impact and to grow personally and professionally.

Your challenges
In this role, you will join our VELUX Commercial Portfolio & Product Management team dedicated to managing and developing the global product offering within VELUX Commercial. The Product Management team consists of 7 professional colleagues located in the Netherlands and Denmark. You will be based at our office in Hørsholm, Denmark.

As Product Manager for the Flat Roof Category within VELUX Commercial, you will play a key role in the growth as you will be responsible for a range of relevant and profitable solutions designed to meet the needs of key decision makers within the construction industry.

Your areas of responsibility include:
• Developing area strategy and short/long term plan for product category
• Developing and maintaining an attractive product portfolio, with strong value propositions and ideal positioning
• Proposing a roadmap to secure further development and deployment of product category, aligning with R&D and Sales who you will build strong relations with
• Acting as the voice of the customer in R&D projects, preparing and validating business cases and organising customer input throughout the stage gate-based development process
• Implementing regular pruning of the portfolio to secure a continuously optimised product category • Coordinating product launch activities with R&D, Supply, Marketing and other key functions
• Developing value proposition and product messaging, driving preparation of relevant sales material.
• Securing market and customer insights, collecting input from local markets and engage with key target groups to identify trends and customer needs, turning these into requirements for R&D
• Monitoring launch- and portfolio sales performance and engaging with sales units to identify actions to enable improvement

You can expect to travel approx. 25 days per year.

Your qualifications
We expect that you have:
• A relevant master’s degree, engineering/commercial
• Ideally +5 years of experience from an international Product Management role with documented results
• An understanding of the commercial elements of product management, including customer value propositions and product positioning
• Strong command of written and spoken English and preferably Danish, German will be a benefit
• A proactive mindset, the ability to inspire others and you master stakeholder management
• The ability to define a clear vision, look beyond the immediate difficulties and see things from a broad perspective
• A goal-oriented approach, you are driven by achieving results together with others
• Strong communication skills – you communicate in a clear, inspiring, fluent and precise manner
• The ability to establish and maintain relations with people at all levels, you are good at developing and maintaining networks

Your opportunities
As VELUX Commercial is growing and going places, so will you. We invite you to grow in our strong learning culture, where our ambitions will become your challenges. We strongly believe in empowering our people and we support this with a wide scope of action and continuous employee development.

At VELUX Commercial, you can have a challenging and exciting job while making use of flexible work arrangements. We work as a team with a flat hierarchy to achieve our ambitious goals. Mutual respect, commitment and thoroughness are just some of our essential values. Join the Portfolio & Product Management and become a key contributor to the success of VELUX Commercial.