Job description
BSH Home Appliances Corporation – Top Employer US 2023
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At BSH, People Matter. Bring your unique skills, capabilities, and experiences to our dynamic teams where your contributions will drive our innovation culture. We strive to be a workplace that values people and supports opportunities for continuous professional and personal growth. As a leading manufacturer of home appliance brands Bosch, Gaggenau, and Thermador, we prioritize having a consumer centric mindset and creating positive experiences for the consumer throughout all interactions with our products and services. Join us now and give your career a home. You Belong Here.
Marketing Product Owner I, Bosch & Thermador Refrigeration
Irvine, CA / Full-time
Your responsibilities
The Marketing Product Owner I is responsible for strategy creation and taking ownership of execution. This includes describing requirements, closely collaborating with the team, accepting or rejecting work results, and steering the project by tracking and forecasting its progress. Facilitates creativity; encourages innovation; and is comfortable with change, ambiguity, debate, conflict, playfulness, experimentation, and informed risk taking.
Will be responsible for tracking (Business Unit's) BU’s T/O and profit. They are responsible for deriving products from consumers’ pain & gain points as well as their shopping behavior. Based on the analysis of the trends the Defines the future roadmap requirements and drive the globally aligned roadmap to a successful launch in assistance with the BU head. They will be responsible for tracking metrics like cost, quality and timeline and flagging any deviations from the plan. The project manager will be the co-pilot in this effort.
As the individual responsible for the product’s success, the Product Owner I needs to prepare documentation to steer decision making. Must be a team player who relies on close collaboration with the other Scrum team members, yet has no formal authority over them.
Manages a less complex category and will have the assistance of a senior product owner or the BU head in terms of delivering on KPIs for business success and definition of the vision.
· Strategy Definition
· Be the consumer champion: Help initiate and implement market research (e.g. ethnographic studies, qualitative, quantitative, etc.) to implement product projects in partnership with Consumer Insights Manager
· Partner with the Innovation Manager in assisting to define what consumer insights drive vision and strategy using a variety of different tools and methodologies
· Within smaller sized and less complex categories; analyze, compile and define market requirements concerning trends, consumers, competitors, distribution based on regional consumer journey framework / supported by regional experts
· Derive user stories and core user experiences from the insights. Translate the user stories to feature set
· Accountable for defining the product strategy along with other stakeholders from development, operations management, design, brand, etc.
· Roadmap Development
· Implement roadmap by initiating product projects, take ownership for the Product Project/ Product Business Case
· Within smaller sized and less complex categories, compile all product-related consumer knowledge and translate into product requirements (with own consumer insight & user experience specialists)
· Recommend product development projects incl. driving and deciding project in terms of product requirements & specification
· Partner with the Innovation Manager on the feature pre-development roadmap
· Agile Program Management and Rollout
· Within smaller sized categories, operationalize product strategy; including product improvement, feature prioritization, costing, and release (feature roadmap program)
· Managing deadlines and ensuring that projects remain on schedule and budget working with project management office (part of operation management)
· Work closely with project sponsor, cross-functional teams, and assigned project managers to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new initiatives
· Identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and external vendors
· Analyze, evaluate, and overcome program risks, and produce program reports for management and stakeholders
· Other duties as assigned
Your profile
· Bachelor’s degree (business administration, marketing) – Required
· Master's Degree (business administration, marketing) – Preferred
· 0-2 Years of Experience (category management, product management, product marketing, innovation management, user research, project management (less qualified individual)) – Required
· 3-5 Years of Experience (category management, product management, product marketing, innovation management, user research, project management (highly qualified individual)) – Required
· Optimistic, creative and motivating personality, with excellent problem solving skills
· Market and consumer knowledge, knowing customers and stakeholders
· Sensing of market gaps and resulting product opportunities
· End-to-end understanding of value chain and in-depth knowledge of product development process
· Experience in definition and development of new products and integration in existing portfolio of products and brands
· Linking and leveraging of digital product potentials
· Ability to reflect consumer requirements
· Awareness of critical future capabilities based on strategic ambition and existing gaps, ability to close those gaps and set further trends
· Decision making skills based on different resolution of available data
· Strong collaboration/ communication skills in dealing with different stakeholders, sought-after networker & partner; ability to aligns different parties, including customers, users, development, operations, and management. The product manager is the voice of the customer, communicating customer needs and requirements and bridging the gap between different parts of the organization
· Analytical, planning and negotiation skills
· Travel required based on business needs; domestic and international
· Travel Percentage – 30%
Your Pay & Benefits
The pay range posted for this position is based on the location noted in the posting title. Exact compensation offered may vary based on your specific skillset and work location. If the position is bonus or incentive eligible then the maximum payout potential is 200% of target with details laid out within the plan document.
Benefits offered include the following:
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability benefits, employee assistance program (EAP), Adoption Benefits, HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care FSA starting on the first day of the month after 27 days of employment.
- Eligible to participate in 401K Savings and Retirement Plan on the first day of the month following or coincident with the date you complete 1 month of employment.
- MotivateMe Employee Wellness program through CIGNA.
- 2 weeks of paid vacation for all non-temporary status new hires below Director level positions. Vacation entitlement increases based on years of service with BSH.
- Unlimited paid vacation for all Director and above level positions.
- 40 hours of paid sick leave (Non-Production Line)
- 40 hours of paid personal leave (Production Line)
- Employee, friends, and family discount program for company products.
- BSH provides ongoing product training, uniforms, computer tablet, cell phone and a company vehicle for eligible positions.
Further information
Please visit career.bsh-group.com and learn about what makes BSH a Top Employer!
At BSH we appreciate everyone's uniqueness and value diversity as key for our business success. By including everyone and ensuring equal opportunities we unleash our full potential - EOE / AA Employer.
This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Bonus program.
We participate in E-Verify.
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