Do you want to be a part of an energetic, diverse, and international team that drives change? And would you like to have an impact on product development and launches? Then you should join us as our Product Manager.
Product manage new and innovative outdoor play and fitness solutions
As our Product Manager for our Product Management team in Odense, you will have the chance to contribute to major changes impacting the entire business organization and help us to further improve product development.
You will identify new growth areas and opportunities for product innovation and solutions within existing and potentially new product lines based on deep commercial-, quantitative- and qualitative insights.
You will be responsible for selected KOMPAN product innovation pipelines including fitness, multisport and climbing product lines. Your main mission will be to manage the entire product development process through the stage gate process in collaboration with the Head of Product Management and other Product Management team members.
Further, your key tasks and responsibilities include:
- Presenting project status to senior leadership, recommending further actions, and ensuring management approvals throughout the stage gate process.
- Gathering insights through customer interviews, close collaboration with KOMPAN market organizations, sales analyses etc.
- Collaborating with KOMPAN Fitness Institute (KFI) and KOMPAN Fitness Strategy Director to ensure product innovation is rooted on consumer insights and user benefits.
- Product conceptualizing into product development ideas based on insights and research from universities and KOMPAN Fitness Institute (KFI).
- Preparing sales tools and briefing the marketing communication team in collaboration with Fitness Strategy Director.
- Continuously tracking product performance; for revitalization, optimization and for pruning.
- Collecting, consolidating, and maintaining product data.
You will engage and cooperate with various stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Hence, you will build relationships across the organization in order to improve product development.
Make a difference with your product management skills
You hold a degree in Business, Innovation, Engineering, Entrepreneurship or similar and have a minimum of 3 years of product management experience.
Preferably you currently work as a Product Manager or similar in a global company and have extensive knowledge and experience in driving product innovation projects and in stage gate management.
You are able to work in multifunctional teams consisting of designers, engineers, scientists, marketeers etc.
Further, you possess/are:
- Great English communication skills, both in spoken and written
- Solid presentation skills and are comfortable in presenting to senior management and business partners.
- A commercial mindset with excellent business analysis competences.
- An entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to come up with innovative ideas.
- Excellent in Excel, Power BI, and PowerPoint
KOMPAN Group Marketing
You will become part of our Group Marketing team, a team of more than 25 people, where we, in close collaboration with leading dimensions within KOMPAN, work on marketing and product development.
KOMPAN - Who are we?
KOMPAN is the global leader in outdoor play and fitness areas. Our purpose is to create healthier and happier communities through play and active living. The KOMPAN Group's main activity is the development, production, and sale of playgrounds, outdoor sports, and fitness facilities. In addition, the company sells service and installation services in connection with product sales.
KOMPAN designs, manufactures, and installs more than 1,000 playgrounds or fitness sites every month somewhere across 90 countries. Of these, 23 countries do so through KOMPAN’s own direct operation and the remainder through carefully selected quality agents and partners. The global head office is in Odense, Denmark.
The global footprint has expanded significantly over the years, and includes production sites in the Czech Republic, Poland, design studios in Denmark and the Czech Republic, and 23 country offices around the world including Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, and South America.
Do you want to play with us?
Working for us, you will be part of energetic activities and professional playfulness, where you can share your ideas and develop your career as you help enrich the lives of people of all ages through play and exercise around the globe. And that is a powerful purpose to be part of.
We work cross-functionally in teams and across cultures in different countries. We believe cultural differences enable us to promote high quality and good results. Yes. It is no secret that we focus on results, but we also appreciate that you bring all of you to work. We are on an exciting growth journey, and you are welcome!
Let’s Play!
Our website is regularly updated with new open opportunities. If you want to play with us in other areas, we will encourage you to regularly keep an eye on our open positions:
https://www.kompan.com/en/int/about/working-at-kompan
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