Product Manager – Performance Driven Solutions

At Vanderlande, we’re not just leaders in material handling systems; we’re pioneers in shaping the future. In a rapidly changing world, innovation is our compass, and cutting-edge solutions are our currency. But here’s the secret: Technology alone doesn’t define us—it’s our unwavering belief in people. 

As part of our Global Solutions team, you’ll be at the forefront of enhancing and maturing our solutions portfolio for some of the world’s leading companies. Our ambition is to enable our customers reaching their goals and to do so through positive and innovative change.

Our teams keep track of technological trends and identify, develop, and offer innovative solutions that meet the needs and desires of our customers. Within Global Solutions, the Service Portfolio team focuses on smart, innovative digital solutions that enable our customers to get better insights into their operations, identify new opportunities to improve, and even pursue new revenue-generating opportunities.

Beyond having great service offerings, it’s our people who make the difference. We value collaboration, creativity, and diverse perspectives. 

What will you be doing?  

As a Product Manager in the Global Solutions team, you will focus on delivering digital solutions, and products that meet customer needs and business requirements to further develop our performance-based service offerings.

You will work closely with digital, operational, and sales teams to enhance our capability in offering performance-based service contracts. You'll be responsible for leading and developing this service product, which consists of both other service products and operational capabilities.

Your day-to-day activities will include:

• Collaborating with colleagues from our Technology department to unlock digital performance insights.
• Analyzing customer feedback and working with operational and sales teams to ensure your product can be sold and operationally maintained.
• Balancing customer value with operational capabilities.
• Delivering products and solutions within constraints such as long planning horizons, numerous stakeholders, and complex operational solutions, while approaching large projects in an agile way by breaking them into smaller, manageable chunks.

Core Responsibilities

• Own the product development lifecycle for assigned features or product areas.
• Define and maintain product backlog with clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with technology, sales, and operational teams to deliver high-quality service solutions.
• Define business cases for new product and features to be developed and create a clear business case for budget requests for short/long term.
• Develop your product strategy and manage its roadmap.
• Conduct user research and analyze data to inform product decisions.
• Drive experimentation on all aspects of the product from ideation through launch and operations.
• Manage the product development process from ideation through launch.
• Run product operations from launch through feedback loops and support.
• Track and report on key product metrics and future performance.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product management or related experience, including solutions end-to-end
• A passion for data analysis, data-informed product innovation, building and shaping data culture
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• A proven track record of bridging business needs and technically oriented data science colleagues.
• Ability to see the bigger picture while keeping track of details
• Excellent influencing skills and non-hierarchical leadership skills within cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong knowledge on logistical (service) operations

What we offer?

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
• Flexible working hours.
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
• Working from home allowance.
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
• On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.