Advanced lead Engineer- Product management RTPE Group D&D

Main Duties/Function

• Monitoring product portfolio and product life cycle
• Providing input to Sales & Marketing about product developments and introduction of new products
• Contributing to the development of product road maps, product portfolio positioning, and business cases for new products and product improvements
• Collecting, processing, and analysing of market, product, competitor, and customer data
• Monitoring, reporting and reacting to market trends, developments, competition and innovations
• Supporting pricing policy and pricelists
• Providing input for website, marketing documentation/campaigns, exhibitions/roadshows and white papers
• Working with marketing to develop and optimize sales tools/information
• Providing support (2nd line) for technical questions from customers
• Managing product declarations
• Arranging customer-specific testing and samples
• Supporting the standardization of processes and tools for product management activities within the RTPE group
• Providing technical and market input to engineering teams for product developments and optimizations
• Making sure the product development pipeline is filled with innovative ideas
• Supporting product development process between Sales, Product Management and Engineering
• Prepare Product development plan by compiling the required specification and features
• Maintaining test certificate reports
• Cross functional collaboration (Engineering, Marketing, Finance etc.)
• Soft Skills, Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP

Education & Qualification

• Bachelors or Master in Engineering/business management
• Minimum of 8 years in a technical-commercial product environment or product management role

Practical Experience

Essential

• Product Management experience in a technical environment, with electromechanical products
• Desirable
• Product Management in the Rollingstock environment
• Skills & Competence Level
• Essential
• Analytical
• Planning & Organizing
• Vision
• Result oriented
• Global mindset
• Customer focus
• Collaborating
• Excellent verbal and written communication, including Customer Facing' skills.
• Desirable
• Experience of Railway Standards (e.g. EN50155, EN50121, IEC 60571, IEC 60077, IEC 61373, EN 45545-2)
• Experience of Relay Standards (e.g. IEC 61810, IEC 60947-5-1, IEC 60947-5-4)

Additional Comments

• The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic and energetic, able to manage multiple tasks at one time, have a strong desire to get the job done right first time and have a can do' attitude.
• English speaking/writing is essential, Dutch and/or French is beneficial.