Services Product Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Brake System Product Manager (Product Management)

• Scope: Assigned brake system product portfolio across full lifecycle (OE and Services)

Description

You will define and execute product portfolio strategy across the full lifecycle, supporting both Original Equipment (OE) and Services business objectives. You will own the product roadmap, set strategic vision and market positioning, and align product offerings with customer needs, market trends, and business priorities. You will translate customer and market requirements into differentiated solutions through close collaboration with commercial, engineering, sourcing, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Product strategy and roadmap: Define aftermarket vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap based on market entitlement, fleet lifecycle, technology evolution, customer requirements, and competitive dynamics.

• Portfolio and offering management: Define, develop, and rationalize a scalable portfolio of core products, parts, upgrades, and service solutions; establish offering scope, target applications, configuration rules, value propositions, and lifecycle plans.

• Product economics and profitable growth: Own product-level business cases; manage target cost and margin architecture; monitor orders, revenue, contribution margin, market share, and pipeline health; initiate corrective actions when targets deviate.

• Innovation and competitiveness: Identify upgrade/evolution potential, cost-reduction opportunities, and technology investments; lead cross-functional competitiveness improvements involving LCC, RAMS, engineering, manufacturing, methods, and quality.

• Voice of market to requirements: Synthesize inputs from KAM, BD, customer engagements, field performance, installed-base data, and market research; translate prioritized needs into product and service requirements with Product Engineering and other functions.

• OE lifecycle and Services readiness: Drive readiness for parts, tooling, documentation, repair capability, supplier strategy, training, warranty transition, fleet introduction, and long-term support.

• Market and competitive intelligence: Maintain product-specific intelligence, fleet and installed-base visibility, competitor analysis, and technology trends; convert insights into roadmap priorities, offer positioning, and risks/opportunities.

• Opportunity and proposal enablement: Support BD and KAM with product expertise, requirements interpretation, technical positioning, business-case inputs, and product risk assessment; support COM-OPS with technical inputs for quality offers.

• Standardization and governance: Ensure tenders/projects use approved standard offerings; govern exceptions, product deviations, and roadmap commitments with Engineering, Operations, Sourcing, and Quality.

• Regional enablement: Communicate product vision, roadmap, and offer strategy to regional stakeholders; provide product knowledge, tools, and training for consistent KAM/BD execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration, or related field

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in product management, engineering, sales, business development, or profit center (P&L) management (ideally in rail industry or at an OEM)

• Demonstrated experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, business cases, and lifecycle offerings

• Experience leading cross-functional work across Engineering, Operations, Sourcing, Finance, and Commercial teams

• Fluent English required

Benefits

• Salary range: $79,100–$112,800 (base pay range subject to change)

• Health, welfare, and retirement benefits available at mywabtecbenefits.com

• Annual bonus, if eligible