Product Manager

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Weir Group Full time

Position: Product Manager - Pumps

Weir Minerals AME Region

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Weir has been in business since 1871 and our sustainability and success has been built on attracting, retaining, and developing exceptional people.

As a global company, we reflect the diversity of our customers in the diversity of our people and ensure everyone is given the opportunity to flourish regardless of their gender, race, beliefs or background.

We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of technical and business roles in engineering, manufacturing and service locations worldwide.

Enabling our people to unleash their full potential is central to ‘We are Weir’, our vision, mission, and strategic priorities. We aim to be the most admired engineering business in our markets and we'll achieve that ambition by being the employer of choice in our markets.

Weir is an inclusive and innovative organisation where you can be your authentic self. We continually develop our talent and diversity of thought to keep our business relevant, innovative and successful for the future.

Business Need/Purpose of Role:
The Product Manager will be responsible for managing the core hydraulics team working predominantly on pump capital projects. Deep knowledge of the industry, its clients and the timing of projects will be required. As a member of management, this individual will be responsible for coordinating the functions of the pumps team to ensure they reach their full-year targets on input and margin. Successfully managing the health of the team relative to culture, vacancies and structure would be key metrics which the individual would be responsible for. This includes the training, mentoring and potentially managing the performance of others related to the field of hydraulics. The successful individual will be comfortable going to the site and travelling for business. The successful individual would also be required to support and report on a regional level, on the activities of the business line as well as contribute to global knowledge sharing and best practices.

Job Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree preferable - Chemical / Metallurgical / Mechanical
- Business Degree preferable - MBA
- Computer Literate - Advanced MS Office Suite, ERP Software
- Member of a professional organization

Minimum Experience:

- 10 years of industry experience in a mining/manufacturing environment
- 4 years of management experience
- Equipment selection, customer-facing and industry-related experience

Key Tasks:

- Manage input and margin of pumps portfolio
- Manage team culture, as well as the overall health of the team relative to vacancies and structure
- Report writing regionally as well as divisionally
- Provide technical support for the product, internally and externally
- Implement product strategic plan
- Gather market intelligence
- Identify and develop new markets
- Technical product presentations to customers and industry associations
- Key input into product plans and strategic plans in order to achieve budget
- Assist with the development of new products to complement and improve the current product line
- Develop key relationships with customers such as design houses
- Budgets, sales and marketing forecasts
- Adhere to HSE and Housekeeping requirements at the branch and customer sites
- Adhere to Duty of Care Policy at all times

Minimum Skills/Abilities:

- Report writing skills
- Professional communication on all levels
- Able to analyse and interpret technical drawings
- Presentation skills
- Able to work under pressure
- Demonstrates strong technical understanding
- Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner
- Manages difficult customers and responds promptly to customer needs
- Deadline driven
- Sound understanding of cost implications

Motivation:
The hydraulics engineers are responsible for converting tenders into orders, predominantly through the mechanism of base growth and geographic expansion. They increase the OE footprint for Weir which thus supports the growth of the AM business as well. These individuals are the tip of the technical spear that makes weir the preferred solutions provider when it comes to pumps.


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