Program Manager, PLM & Pricing

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Owns and drives the Product Management and Pricing operating model, including prioritization, backlog management, execution cadence, and governance across EMEA.
• Establishes aligned execution across Product Management, Pricing, R&D, Operations, and Commercial teams, ensuring clear ownership, decision rights, and follow‑through.
• Defines and implements transparent frameworks to manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and trade‑offs across cross‑functional initiatives.
• Facilitates agile ways of working (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid models) adapted to a non‑software, industrial environment.
• Creates visibility of work, progress, performance, and bottlenecks through structured forums, dashboards, and execution rituals.
• Partners closely with the Digital Product & Pricing Engineer and Digital & Data teams to ensure tools, data, and dashboards are adopted and used consistently.
• Actively identifies and removes execution barriers, driving improved speed, reliability, and alignment of product and pricing initiatives.

• Progression to this level is restricted on the basis of business requirements

• None
• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized area and general knowledge of related areas
• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity
• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses analytical thinking, tools and judgement to identify innovative solutions

• University degree in Engineering, Business, Information Systems, or related field with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience in product management, PMO, operations, or transformation roles.
• Proven experience operating in complex, matrix organizations, bringing structure and execution discipline to ambiguous environments.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align diverse senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and drive outcomes without formal authority.
• Strong background in agile ways of working (Scrum, Kanban) beyond pure software development teams.
• Solid understanding of digital product environments, with exposure to development concepts; hands‑on coding experience or the ability to engage credibly with engineering teams is a strong advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to drive alignment, accountability, and decisions without formal authority.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to structure complex data and translate it into clear, actionable insights.
• Hands‑on experience with collaboration and execution tools such as Jira, Miro, Power BI, Tableau, or advanced Excel.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with confidence engaging senior and executive leadership.
• Fluent in English; any other European language is a plus.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%

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