Head (m/f) of Product Management, Friedrichshafen

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

Tasks & accountabilities

• Leadership of a 9 person strong international team on different sites (Toulouse, Friedrichshafen, Guilford) ensuring co-ordination between team members; assigning resources to priorities,
• Support synergies between product lines and optic and radar integration incl. Unified Ordering; optimize exploitation of assets and major marketing interface towards operations and technical teams,
• Drive product line roadmaps, define overall strategy based on product lifecycles, KPI Target Metrics, market trends and competition,
• Ensure competitive & compelling offers and meeting of customer requirements; enable OP and EBIT targets,

• Driving Imagery product growth, prioritize product offers supporting sales campaigns, developing new marketing-led campaigns, and defining a 'campaign plan':

  • in collaboration with the Campaign Manager, Industry Managers, Sales Coordination and Operational teams, Channel & Regional Marketing Managers
  • in line with the OP and Business region priorities using customer and market insight to define product line priorities, potential development opportunities and revenue forecasts

• Support delivery of business cases (new) and business case reviews (existing) for products, ensuring that the delivery and functionality are focused on key customer requirements and ROI

• Be a Product Management Expert to promote internal stakeholders. This includes transferring direct knowledge to sales teams within the GEO business areas and being a point of contact for Product Marketing requests

• Ensure clear communication between Product Managers and Operational Marketing team

• Working with Innovations and R&D to develop long-term game changers for the product lines,

• Leadership and contribution to the digitalization of the Imagery portfolio

• External ambassador for the Intelligence portfolio at Customer and Industry events

• Senior leader within the Marketing team and key member of Marketing Leadership team, working closely with team leaders for Operational Marketing, Channel & Regional Marketing and Industry and Solution Marketing

• Reporting to the Head of Marketing with objectives, ensuring the product line offers, and supporting OP and company strategy.

• This role will involve frequent travel for team leadership and business activities and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

Required skills

• Several years of experience in Product Management, Marketing or Sales
• Engineering or Business / Marketing degree (or equivalent); Experience of Team Management & Coordination and facilitating team work,
• Experience of working within and leading international teams,
• Demonstrated success defining and launching innovative and competitive products,
• Excellent presentational, written and verbal communication skills,
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority,
• Fluent written and oral English language skills. A second language (e.g.: French, German) is an asset.