Manager, Product Management

About the Role

The Product Manager is responsible for defining, delivering and continuously evolving digital products supporting manufacturing, product development, and enterprise digital transformation. This role owns the end-to-end product lifecycle and acts as a bridge between business, technology, and operations, leveraging manufacturing expertise, jewelry product development, AI, Agentic AI, automation, and robotics to deliver measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the vision, strategy, and product roadmap in alignment with organizational & business goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team (Innovation & Product Development, Engineering, Technology, Design Development, Assortment Planning and so on) to capture and prioritize business requirements.
• Lead Agile product delivery through Agile methodologies.
• Enable manufacturing and product development through digital solutions.
• Collaborate with Engineering Manager/Lead grooming the self-organizing product team.
• Drive AI, Agentic AI, Automation, and robotics use cases that make business impacts.
• Manage stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams.
• Work with Engineering Managers and Solution Architects to create a holistic technical solution design, explore the possible technical solution and architectural runway also encompassing technical enablers, non-functional requirements, and improvements to ways of working.
• Facilitate key events and orchestrate the delivery with delivery manager, scrum master, and product team including facilitation of sprint planning, sprint review, product demos, and sprint retrospective.
• Work with vendors to embrace Pandora's delivery model and become integrated part of long-standing product teams.
• Own accountability for long-term product success from a technology point of view, including accountable for building technical excellence (built-in quality).
• Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings across product domain such as Scrum of Scrum and, Product Owner sync and Leadership meetings, as well as manage dependencies with broader organization.
• Work with senior leadership and the business owner group within your focus area to form and convert strategic vision into roadmaps including to set clear objectives and key results for new initiatives and create complex Lean Business Canvas that include market analysis, costs, business/user benefits, OPEX & CAPEX calculations, sensitivity analysis.
• Participate in portfolio alignment activities to ensure dependencies are managed and funding/approval processes are followed.
• Ensure data governance and adherence to regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Ensure compliance with technical standards & guidelines e.g., vendor, architecture, and cybersecurity, manage technology interdependencies on functionality or timeline.
• Manage and support other related applications within the Product Development business area.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of product development concepts.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with Product Manager role in Agile environment.
• Proven experience in managing enterprise software solutions or product ownership in a technical domain.
• Strong stakeholder management to ensure a holistic perspective is gathered and backing for product backlog and priorities is ensured.
• Advanced client-facing skills, including the ability to analyse complex problems, influence and negotiate with customers.
• Familiarity with integration to CAD, ERP, and MES systems.
• Experience with PLM, digital transformation, AI, Agentic AI, automation, robotics.
• Manufacturing and jewelry product development experience is an advantage.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and business acumen.
• "Can do" attitude, be courage and confront with challenges, stand for the shared goals as well as be flexible for the approach.
• Leadership skill, proactive, and structured.
• Ability to ensure progress and commitment to deadlines.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.