Head of Product Management (m/f/d) – Germany

**Head of Product Management (m/f/d) – Germany** **Build product management from the ground up – and own the portfolio that defines our future.** At **LNI Swissgas** product decisions have so far been taken close to the technology and to individual customer requests. We are now establishing product management as a function in its own right, and we are looking for a hands-on **Head of Product Management (m/f/d)** to build it. This is a build mandate: you will own the portfolio personally, define the roadmap and the business cases that fund it, and lead through influence across R&D, sales, service and operations, with a small team to be added as the function grows. **Place of work:** LNI Swissgas GmbH, Felix-Wankel-Straße 27, 59174 Kamen-Heeren-Werve (near Dortmund), Germany – on site at our office in Kamen, with regular travel within Germany and abroad. **Reports to:** General Manager / President, LNI Swissgas, as a member of the leadership team. WHAT YOU WILL DO * Define the product strategy for the gas generation portfolio: which laboratory workflows and customer segments to serve, which technologies to invest in and how to position against competing alternatives. * Own the portfolio and the product roadmap, with transparent prioritisation and the authority to sequence, defer or stop development work in agreement with the General Manager. * Build a systematic evidence base (voice of customer, application analysis, competitor and regulatory tracking) and translate it into clear, testable requirements for R&D. * Develop business cases (volumes, pricing, cost, margin and payback) as the basis for investment decisions, and own pricing and configuration logic. * Lead new product introductions from specification to market readiness, together with engineering, operations, quality, service and sales. * Manage the full product lifecycle: obsolescence, last-time buys, spare parts, installed-base migration and product withdrawal. * Align the requirements of OEMs, distributors and direct customers, and treat safety, certification and regional approvals – including those specific to hydrogen – as design inputs. * Build the product management function (tools, governance and, over time, a small team) and contribute to the strategic agenda as a member of the leadership team. YOUR PROFILE * Around 10 years of product management experience in analytical instrumentation, laboratory equipment or comparable technical capital equipment, with full ownership of a product line or portfolio * Proven track record taking hardware products from market evidence through development to launch and commercial results * Experience establishing or rebuilding a product management discipline: roadmap governance, requirements practice and stage-gate or lifecycle processes * Strong skills in business cases, pricing and margin management, and experience in discontinuing products and managing obsolescence * Technical depth in mechanical, electrical or process engineer