UK Product Line Manager

Overview

In this role you will lead the Land Vehicles product line within Thales OME, shaping strategy for advanced electro-optical products. You will collaborate with international teams, drive product-led transformation, and mentor the next generation of Product Line Managers. You will define roadmaps, business cases and growth opportunities, ensuring products meet evolving market needs. This is a chance to influence a complex defence portfolio and deliver long-term customer value.

Pay / Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Buying or selling annual leave
• Cycle to work schemes
• Employee discounts
• Paid volunteering day
• Stocks and shares of the company? (implied) or annual bonus

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Land Vehicles product line strategy to drive growth and product-led adoption
• Shape roadmaps, investment cases and long-term plans using customer, market and competitor insights
• Build relationships with customers and stakeholders to identify growth opportunities and support BD/capture activities
• Lead lifecycle management of the product portfolio including market positioning, pricing, forecasting and innovation
• Collaborate with Engineering, Programmes, Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, Sales and Business Development to achieve objectives
• Coordinate with international colleagues to align strategies and maximise opportunities across the business
• Mentor and develop Product Line Managers to raise PM capability and best practices
• Influence diverse stakeholders, balance priorities and drive alignment across the organisation

Key requirements

• Proven experience in Product Management or Product Line Management, ideally within defence or similar high-technology environments
• Strong market analysis, strategy, roadmapping and lifecycle management skills with a track record of growth
• Knowledge of Land Systems, Defence Electronics, Electro-Optics or related technologies and customer/operational needs
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders in complex, multinational organisations
• Ability to balance customer requirements, commercial objectives and technical considerations
• Experience supporting organisational change toward a product-led approach
• Strong leadership and coaching capabilities with mentoring experience
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management with credibility with customers, leaders and technical specialists
• Commercially minded, strategic and proactive with ability to challenge priorities
• Highly organised, collaborative and self-motivated with focus on innovation and value delivery
• Degree in Engineering, Business or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience; product management certifications beneficial
• Security Clearance: SC, with target to obtain if not held
• Location: Glasgow (on-site presence required)

• Excellent communication and relationship-building
• Stakeholder management
• Strategic thinking and proactivity
• Land Systems knowledge
• Defence Electronics
• Electro-Optics

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