As a family-owned company, it’s the people who continue to make STIHL a successful, world-class brand. Since revolutionizing the forestry industry in Germany with the first electric chainsaw in 1926, the STIHL name has remained synonymous with outstanding innovations, high-quality products and comprehensive service.
With competitive compensation, excellent benefits and exciting growth potential, it is a great time to join the STIHL team!
Why You’ll Love Working at STIHL:
We are looking for an onsite Product Manager to join our Virginia Beach team and help to drive innovation and deliver customer-focused solutions that align with our organizational goals. You’ll connect strategy to execution by leading cross-functional teams, managing roadmaps, and using data-driven insights to build products that make a real impact.
• Manage the complete product lifecycle process, in collaboration with the product management team, from concept to delivery.
• Develop strategic product plans for assigned portfolios, to include situational assessment, portfolio and competitor analysis, strategic goal alignment, and action planning.
• Influence cross-functional teams (engineering, manufacturing, finance, etc.) to develop new products that meet strategic objectives.
• Apply a thorough understanding of the market, including competition, channels of distribution, competitive landscapes, and sales trend analysis, in order to drive successful planning and sound decision-making.
• Drive launch planning and promotional planning efforts.
• Knowledge of key financial metrics such as net sales standard margin, operating margin, etc.
• Strong working knowledge of milestone/phase gate development process.
• Industry knowledge, to include understanding of external market, customers, and competitors.
• Consulting skills, including ability to apply a customer-focused consultative process, relationship building, discovery, negotiation, implementation, and evaluation.
• Professional presentation skills, including ability to tailor messages to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to identify and communicate project risks.
• Ability to influence within a matrixed organization and cross-functionally.
• Strong financial acumen including a working understanding and application of financial KPIs.
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
STIHL builds on experience.
Founded in 1926 by Andreas Stihl as a one-man company, STIHL has branched out to be a world leader in the portable outdoor power equipment industry. We’ve held onto our values as we’ve grown, believing progress demands strong roots in order to flourish in a meaningful way. As a family-owned business with great global impact, sustainability is built into the structure of our company. STIHL is grounded in tradition and its command of innovation.
STIHL gets things done.
Working with nature requires both, skill and craft. STIHL products use highly sophisticated technology, developed to match our customers’ needs: straightforward, effective, long-lasting and hands-on. From the professional to the hobbyist, STIHL helps to face new endeavors and guarantees a reliable partner is at hand, whenever needed.
STIHL helps people grow.
A career at STIHL means innovative work, centered around our high-technology products. As a global company, we offer you international opportunities and entrust you with challenging tasks. Together, we seek new ideas while maintaining the highest standards of quality, which have reinforced STIHL’s legacy for almost a century. We can always rely on our highly motivated personnel, their diverse talents and varied expertise. At STIHL, you craft your career.
Thanks to our transparent structures, we create space for you to develop both personally and professionally. Your decisions will help shape STIHL’s future. As you grow, we’ll grow, together as a company.
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