Job Description
At Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland, we're looking for a Product Manager to take ownership of our Stone wool insulation portfolio - shaping its strategy, driving product performance, and ensuring our solutions meet the evolving needs of the construction market.\n\nThis is a critical, hands-on product role, in which you will be responsible for overseeing the product lifecycle and working closely with the innovation team to identify customer needs, emerging trends and opportunities for new solutions or enhancements to existing offerings. \n\nThis role is suitable for someone with product management experience in construction or insulation, and ideally a working knowledge of stone wool, glass wool, or wider insulation solutions\n\nThis is a full-time, permanent role offering hybrid working - our team work out of our East Leake Head Office at least 2 days a week.\n\nWhat we're looking for:\n\nProven product management experience, ideally in construction materials or insulation (Specific Stone wool experience would be an advantage)\nStrong analytical mindset, able to evaluate product performance, market data, carry out competitor benchmarking and gain and use customer insights\nExperience in bringing new products to market from concept, to business case, to development and launch\nSomeone who can balance strategic thinking with detail and able to switch easily between strategy and tactical deliveryWhat you will be doing:\n\nOwning and developing the Stone wool portfolio - defining and delivering the portfolio strategy and roadmap \nBenchmarking our offer against the market - analysing competitor products and solutions, pricing, certification, performance and positioning\nDriving new product and solution development by building business cases and supporting cross-functional teams to deliver new Stone wool solutions\nSupporting compliance, certification and regulatory readiness\nChampioning customer needs with a customer 1st approach by working with innovation and technical teams to identify customer problems, unmet needs and opportunities, ensuring our products evolve in line with the realities of the construction environmentsAre Saint-Gobain inclusive employers?\n\nSaint-Gobain is a worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, following our purpose of 'Making the World a Better Home'. We play a part in improving daily life through high-performance solutions.
From wherever you are, let your unique personality and our values guide you every day to invent a more sustainable world. \n\nWe understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.\n\nAnd what about flexibility?\n\nAt Saint-Gobain, we're always open to new ways of working.
Everyone has different needs and commitments. We'll happily discuss any need you might have for this role. Whilst we can't promise to meet every request when we're recruiting, we do promise to listen.\n\nIf you match our criteria, we will be in touch to discuss your experience and more about you as a person, we look forward to hearing from you