Product Lifecycle Manager

Product Lifecycle Manager

Are you passionate about bringing structure, clarity, and customer focus to complex product portfolios? ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions is looking for a Product Lifecycle Manager to help shape and orchestrate the future of our Hospitality Access products. Reporting to the Senior Director & Head of Access Product Management, you will sit at the heart of our Access product portfolio, working across Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and regional teams to ensure that products are launched, evolved, and retired in a coordinated, customer centric way.

You will play a key role in turning fragmented roadmaps into cohesive portfolio journeys that deliver clear value to customers and the business. This is a unique opportunity to join a global, technology driven organization where products are complex, stakeholders are diverse, and influence matters more than formal authority. In this role, you'll thrive in a culture that values engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous learning, empowering you to build a career you can be proud of.

Flexibility for the right candidate to be located in Sweden (preferred), Norway, or the UK, with travel expected as part of this global role.

What you will do as our Product Lifecycle Manager As a Product Lifecycle Manager, you will orchestrate lifecycle activities across the Hospitality Access portfolio, ensuring alignment, transparency, and customer focus from idea to end of life. You will enable Product Managers and regional stakeholders to execute launches, migrations, and retirements in a structured and commercially sound way. You would also:

• Work closely with Product Managers to lead cross functional alignment across product families, ensuring launches, migrations, and product retirements are coordinated, coherent, and managed at portfolio level.
• Track lifecycle milestones end to end, proactively highlighting risks and facilitating discussions to address gaps in commercial value, customer impact, execution readiness, and upgrade or phase out paths.
• Partner with Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales, and regional teams to orchestrate go to market activities, ensuring products are delivered with clear customer value, timing, and organizational readiness.
• Coordinate the development and alignment of messaging, training, and launch materials, translating complex technical content into clear, customer focused value propositions.
• Act as the central liaison for regional feedback by establishing structured engagement forums, consolidating insights, and sharing clear, actionable reporting with relevant stakeholders.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve lifecycle management frameworks, tools, and ways of working to increase portfolio visibility, decision making quality, and execution efficiency.
• Support portfolio governance by developing robust business cases (market data, regional and R&D inputs, investment logic) and monitoring compliance with security, quality, and regulatory requirements, while applying best practices in lifecycle and project management within a global matrix organization.
• Collaborate closely across teams as the role evolves, taking on additional responsibilities and adapting priorities in line with business needs in a dynamic, growing environment.

The skills and experience you need We are looking for someone who has: 4+ years of experience in product lifecycle management, project or program coordination, or a similar operational role within a technology driven or B2B environment, with exposure to launches, migrations, phase outs, or pilot programs. Experience working with both hardware and software products, ideally within complex, long lifecycle, or integrated systems.

Proven ability to operate effectively in matrix organizations, influencing without formal authority and aligning diverse, cross functional, and regional stakeholders. Strong organizational, analytical, and problem solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguity, assess opportunities, and drive progress. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, comfortable engaging with senior leaders, regional teams, and cross functional partners; fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Experience supporting business case development, including market sizing, opportunity framing, and coordination of inputs, with familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar collaboration and planning tools considered a plus. The ideal candidate has a strong commercial mindset, curiosity, and a genuine interest in understanding customer value. They are comfortable switching between operational delivery and higher level portfolio thinking, enjoy working across functions and regions, and thrive in environments where priorities evolve—especially during intensive phases such as pilot programs and product launches.

We value attitude as much as experience. If you are adaptable, proactive, and energized by bringing order and clarity to complex product…