Senior Manufacturing & Engineering Product Manager

This role sits above Engineering and Manufacturing product domains to enable Smart Factory outcomes through organisational development and platform integration, ensuring the landscape (especially PLM and MES) evolves as a coherent product set - with clear strategies, adoption plans, and measurable value.

As a Senior Manufacturing and Engineering Product Manager, your mission is to maximise the value delivered by multiple digital products by defining clear product strategies, aligning roadmaps with business priorities, and enabling Product Owners and teams to deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable solutions. You will report to the Head of IT Product or Product Stream Lead.

 • Define and own product strategies and roadmaps for a group of products, ensuring alignment with business goals and product stream direction.

 • Lead, coach, and support multiple Product Owners, enabling strong product ownership and consistent value delivery

 • Partner with senior business stakeholders to shape priorities, challenge assumptions, and balance demand with delivery capacity

 • Oversee product delivery and performance, ensuring progress against roadmaps and continuous improvement of outcomes.

• Act as an escalation point for complex product, delivery, and stakeholder issues.

• Ensure security, compliance, and risk considerations are appropriately addressed across all products in scope. Scope and focus

 • Smart factory enablement (organisation + capability): drive the non-technical enablers required to scale (standard ways of working, training pathways, governance, adoption model, site rollout patterns).

• PLM + MES integration into the enterprise landscape: ensure engineering definition, execution data, and operational traceability connect cleanly through the lifecycle, aligned with target architecture principles.

• Portfolio coherence across products: align roadmaps across dependent products (e.g., engineering definition -> manufacturing execution) and manage trade-offs across functions/sites.

 

To succeed, you will need

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role. You have A minimum of 7 years of experience, working in Product Management, IT delivery, or a comparable role with responsibility for digital products and teams. • Proven experience defining and delivering product strategies across multiple products. • Strong experience engaging and influencing senior business stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop Product Owners or cross-functional teams. • Solid understanding of Agile ways of working and how to measure and improve product performance.