Hardware Product Manager

Job Title
Hardware Product Manager
Country
Denmark

Job Description
Committed and with a passion for precision we create digital reality solutions combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies to empower a sustainable future. Will you join us?
Leica Geosystems Machine Control Division is driven to create solutions that improve safety and sustainability while increasing productivity and efficiency for our customers’ road construction and other civil engineering projects.

We now have an opportunity for an experienced Hardware Product Manager to join our team in Product Management at Leica Geosystems Machine Control Division in Odense, Denmark.

THE COMPANY
For us, great humour, high spirits, and opportunities to develop create a great workplace. Located in Odense, Leica Geosystems offers a highly motivating environment where your contributions really matter. You’ll work as part of an international and multidisciplinary team operating worldwide. You can expect 10-20% international travel.

We simultaneously develop state-of-the-art technology, innovative solutions, and the skills of our people. Our organizational culture is based on trust, personal freedom and individual responsibility. Naturally, we have flexible work models that allow you to maintain your work/life balance. However, we can promise you that you will miss your wonderful colleagues and the in-house atmosphere when you are not at the office. And please don’t get us started about our workplace-canteen.

THE ROLE
As a Hardware Product Manager you will have direct involvement in crafting the roadmap and requirements for our portfolio of hardware products (display panels/cradles, embedded computers, IMU and laser-based sensors, cables, brackets, etc.) that support our machine control solutions. Specifically, you will be responsible for driving the simplification and scalability of our hardware portfolio to enable future sales growth and bottom-line profitability. You will naturally facilitate between various departments to ensure accurate delivery of requirements, documentation, and execution of policies and processes.

Examples of your tasks include:
• Write business cases to justify project investments with profitable outcomes
• Analyze markets to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities for product enhancement
• Create detailed specifications and requirements
• Make buy vs. build decisions to ensure timely delivery and profitability
• Create end of life plans
• Contribute to product pricing strategy
• Act as hardware product owner in R&D projects
• Support go-to-market strategies

THIS IS YOU
You have a formal relevant education, bachelor’s degree (Engineering, Surveying, Business, Technology) or equivalent combination of education and experience. You are honest, engaged, structured, analytical, and willing to be part of a great team where we value and use our differences to push the limit of quality and performance.

In addition, we expect you to have:
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to derive actionable insights from complex data sets.
• Ability to rapidly grasp customers' requirements and formulate solutions.
• Commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences.
• High level of personal responsibility, curiosity, and thirst for knowledge.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and represent the company professionally.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interface at multiple levels and functions.
• Thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy.
• Understanding of product development processes.
• Knowledge and or experience in heavy construction or mining industries is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in English, other languages are considered a bonus.
• Flexibility to collaborate across multiple time zones as needed.

INTERESTED?
Apply using this link and upload your CV and covering letter in English.
Interviews will be held as and when relevant candidates apply; candidates may be asked to carry out a case task during the interview process. All applications are treated as fully confidential.

For questions regarding the position, please get in touch with Graham Smith, Manager PMO Platforms (email or LinkedIn) or HR Business Partner, Jessica Nyström (email).

We kindly but firmly refrain from direct contact with staffing and recruitment companies as well as sellers of additional job advertisements.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Leica Geosystems Machine Control is part of Hexagon’s Geosystems division. Leica Geosystems creates complete solutions for professionals in a diverse mix of industries, such as aerospace and defence, safety and security, construction, and manufacturing. With precise and accurate instruments, sophisticated software, and trusted services, Leica Geosystems delivers value every day to those shaping the future of our world. In Machine Control Division we are offering simplified and connected machine control solutions for increasing productivity, efficiency and safety in heavy construction operations.

Hexagon is the global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. Our solutions free our customers to harness the rapidly-increasing amounts of data, putting it to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector and mobility applications. Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 24,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.2bn EUR.

Job Family
Product Management/Business Development

Employment Type
Professional

City
Odense