Senior Product Manager - Peripherals (m/f/d)

Job Description Summary As Senior Product Manager you will report to the General Manager of Additive Machines and Peripherals and be accountable for value creation through full life-cycle ownership of the peripheral portfolio. You will manage the product portfolio for launching and growing product revenue, margin, and overall share across the entire peripherals' portfolio in the global market.

At GE Additive, we continue to work every day to bring the transformative power of advanced manufacturing to businesses around the globe. Through our own extensive experience incorporating additive technologies into our production process, we recognize the value and possibilities it brings to modern design and manufacturing challenges. We design the most advanced metal 3D-printers in the world. Our state-of-the-art machines are designed by our engineering teams, manufactured in Sweden/Germany, and used worldwide to create rockets, medical implants, aircraft engines etc. The EBM division of GE Additive has the benefit of the smaller agile company with the muscles of an enterprise. We have collaboration with colleagues in Germany, India, and US as well as customers all over the world.

Job Description
Essential responsibilities

• You are accountable for the products and customer offerings of peripherals, driving direction in all matters related to margin, revenue, share and investment. You have accountability for the overall budgets, profits, and loss.
• You work across a highly matrixed organization (sales, marketing, technology, and supply chain) and ensure collaboration and teamwork in delivering quality products to our customers.
• You engage on NPI programs and drive NPI execution for delivering on time and on budget
• You are responsible to develop terms and conditions, training specific to these products, pricing, margin and EHS for the program to be deployed to the sales channel partners, including segmenting based on expertise.
• You collaborate with product technology owners and solution teams to normalize / prioritize requirements, account for regulatory compliance trends, simplify the way we deliver to the marketplace, project sales with accuracy, and be accountable for manufacturing delivery.
• You are responsible for developing and implementing a monitoring program to ensure quality and compliance, undertake the necessary corrective and preventive actions resulting from quality noncompliance monitoring and audit programs.
• You anticipate and identify the long-term needs and opportunities for the business in order to create significant market power and sustainable competitive advantage.
• You identify growth opportunities via adjacencies, alliances, and partnerships.
• You collaborate with the marketing team on best entry into the external marketplace and best collateral for sales support, then support sales force around the go to market strategy.
• You frame and communicate the value proposition and measure against competition.

Qualifications/requirements

• Commercial mindset, combined with a healthy technical background is mandatory
• Customer acumen, strong interaction skills towards internal and external customers
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business or related discipline
• Solid experience in product management, engineering, or portfolio management
• Professional experience in manufacturing industry (industrial OEM) and/or similar industrial environment
• Business fluent in English

Desired characteristics

• Experience in product safety
• MBA and strong financial acumen
• Track record of creating and executing impactful strategic initiatives and plans and leading their execution on a global level
• Knowledge of additive manufacturing industry and customer base is a plus
• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and team building skills; proven ability to work well in a matrix environment
• Executive level communication skills
• Relevant experience leading or managing projects of various size, duration, and scope and across geographies
• Strong analytical skills
• Clear thinker with an ability to focus on the "critical few"
• Exceptional leader capable of both driving and motivating global team members to succeed

GE Additive is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognizes the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance. As a new joiner to GE Additive, we are pleased t