BURN is looking for a Product Manager to lead the end-to-end development and lifecycle of innovative clean cooking products, ensuring they deliver strong customer value and align with business goals. The role involves working cross-functionally with R&D, commercial, and operations teams to bring products from concept to market while driving continuous improvement through data and customer insights.
Duties and Responsibilities
Customer Centricity: Put the customer first by working closely with Market research, Industrial design, and the Commercial team to design products that deliver functional and lifetime value to the customer with a scalable business model.
Roadmap Strategy: Develop a comprehensive product roadmap that aligns with the company's overall product strategy.
Technical Management: Work with design engineers to develop and maintain product Bill of Materials (BOM) and specification sheets.
Operational Integration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth product introduction into operations.
Development Oversight: Manage the product development process from ideation to launch to achieve planned timelines.
Process Improvement: Document product development processes and create new ones as needed to improve efficiency and consistency.
Cross-Functional Liaison: Serve as a liaison between R&D, operations, and commercial business functions to ensure alignment on product goals and strategies.
Performance Analysis: Analyze and interpret product performance data to inform optimization and improvement efforts.
Lifecycle Management: Manage the product lifecycle, including product end-of-life decisions and exit strategies.
Marketing & Distribution: Develop and execute product marketing plans, including pricing, promotion, and distribution strategies.
Market Intelligence: Monitor industry trends and competitor activity to stay ahead of market developments and identify potential threats or opportunities.
Stakeholder Relations: Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and partners, to ensure successful product outcomes and collaboration.
Skills and Experience
Product Ownership: Takes full accountability, accurately scopes projects, and follows through on execution from product ideation to launch activities.
Data-Driven Decision Making: Simplifies complex decisions by framing discussions around real data, including customer feedback, lab tests, costs, profitability analysis, and durability data.
Completeness of Work: Consistently self-checks and validates assumptions to ensure critical details are not missed.
Responsiveness & Documentation: Master key aspects of the product quickly and adopt best documentation practices to efficiently extract and share vital information.
Anticipatory Project Management: Stays on top of all the moving pieces in the cross-functional team; anticipates next steps, risks, and opportunities.
Empathetic Stakeholder Management: Listens and takes feedback with empathy. Builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Customer Obsession: Demonstrates a deep, obsessive understanding of customer needs and possesses the technical skills necessary to translate those needs into product features.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via the BURN recruitment portal. To apply, visit the following link: Apply for Product Manager at BURN.
