Product Manager - Combustion Solutions

Company Description

We’re the nation’s favourite heating brand, here to warm up people’s homes, lives, and futures.

From boilers, hybrids and heat pumps to solar thermal and smart controls, we’re giving our customers plenty of choice. With cutting‑edge tech and research, we’re right in the thick of the drive for a better future of home heating.

It’s not all tools and tech. People are the real heart of our company. We connect with our customers to deliver genuinely helpful support, and we care about our employees and give them enriching careers. We work hard, we work together, and we work with a cause – delivering brilliant customer support and exceptional engineering.

As an organisation of more than 1,600 employees, we also take our role in the communities we serve seriously. From giving away free heating systems for community spaces, to our charity, education, and volunteer work – we’re no strangers to rolling our sleeves up, getting stuck in, and helping out.

If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, we’d love to meet you.

Come and work #LikeABosch at Worcester Bosch.

We are excited to offer you the opportunity to join our Product Management department as a Product Manager – Combustion Solutions!

As a Product Manager,
you
are responsible for
ensuring competitive advantage by managing a future‑proof product strategy for your responsible product categories. You manage the technical and economic performance of the assigned product, portfolio or segment over the complete lifecycle and work cross‑functionally with business‑wide stakeholders, to further strengthen Bosch in your product category.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Utilise your expertise in the UK heating market or Product Management techniques and work alongside market experts within the business to develop market leading product specifications, tailored to the UK market and specific customer needs.
• Conduct market & customer research, including both technical and commercial competitor analysis to identify trends, gaps and USPs.
• Initiate and execute User Experience (UX) activity to validate product concepts, features & benefits.
• Understand relevant regulations and standards for responsible product groups and factor them into your product specifications.

• Represent the Product Management function within product development projects.
• Develop requirements and insights to ensure the right product is delivered at the right quality and price position for the target market.
• Ensure features, benefits and USPs, and the advantage they bring, are communicated throughout the organisation and to key customer groups.
• Assist in co‑ordination of new product introductions with all relevant departments

• Co‑ordinate relevant functions to define and execute ongoing overarching product strategy comprising Product, Price, Place & Promotion for category.

• Continuously review the product portfolio performance to ensure the portfolio remains relevant, considering price development, market trends, legislative drivers, customer needs & competitors’ activities.
• Make relevant changes to your product range including phase out of products deemed no longer relevant or competitive.

• With relevant senior stakeholders, within both Sales Region and Product Areas (Business Units), contribute to the definition of a market‑leading portfolio strategy that fulfils the commercial and growth objectives of the wider business.
• Collaborate closely with individual Product Managers and steer them accordingly to ensure common goals are aligned, understood, and achieved, ensuring the entire portfolio ‘fits’ in a considered, cohesive way.
• Take care of price analysis and strategically position the products and define price/revenue scenarios based on business goals, predecessor products and segmentation strategies.
• Understand relevant regulations and standards for responsible product groups and factor them into your product specifications.

• Co‑ordinate relevant functions to and lead process to define overarching segment strategy…