Manager - Product Manager

Senior Product Manager Location: Germany | HybridAt ECI Software Solutions, we build industry-specific ERP software for manufacturing and industrial businesses that keep the economy moving. Our software helps them streamline operations, improve visibility and continue growing. ECI is an international software organisation with offices across Europe and the United States. As a Senior Product Manager, you own a product line at ECI for the manufacturing industry.

You will lead all aspects of the software's life cycle, from the development of new features and enhancements to go-to-market and launch plans for the German market. You are responsible for creating a product roadmap and vision, inspiring others to support that vision, and ultimately delivering products and services known for their robust, customer-focused user experience and innovative capabilities.

You'll work closely with our local German sales and marketing team on positioning, launch and go-to-market execution, while collaborating intensively with our international Product Management team based in Leusden, the Netherlands, on portfolio strategy, roadmap alignment, and financial planning and forecasting across regions. You also work with support and service teams to communicate and train on new features and business processes, and directly with customers to identify new software solutions.

Contribute to competitive analysis using internal, customer and market data to help identify industry trends and unmet user needs.

Support product management by helping define marketing requirements, communicating release and project goals, and validating developed functionalityParticipate in an Agile development environment as a member of a Scrum/project teamBecome the subject matter expert within the organisation for ERPs, assisting sales, implementation and account management with customer requests and inquiriesWork on problems of a diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutionsTypically, a minimum of 5 years of related experience, either in a software/product organisation or within the manufacturing industry itself — for example in a product, engineering or process role at a machine builder or industrial equipment manufacturer in GermanyA bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Economics, Engineering or a related field is preferred; Experience working withsales and service in a software organisationTechnical software/programming experience is a plusProficiency in German (native) and English, spoken and writtenPermanent contract with a 6 month probation period~ Position for 36 to 40 hours per week~ Competitive base salary paid in 12 monthly installments~ Annual bonus of 5%~ Company car~ 30 vacation days per year~ Hybrid working model~ Strong onboarding program~ International career opportunities~ Opportunity to help build the German market for ECI Software Solutions