Product Manager, Recurring Revenue

Welcome to Portfolio mgt. team in the division of Nutritional Plant Engineering (NPE)

NPE is one of the biggest divisions in GEA with a strong global service management team. The portfolio mgt. team is a unit designed to accelerate strategic growth projects, and service products. You will be reporting to the Head of the Portfolio mgt. and work globally to impact the entire division.

This Strategic Product Manager position will be focusing on the key project and product called Recurring Revenue (RR), which is the ability to transform GEA NPE’s service business from being a one-time transactions service business to become a service partner through long term contracts with our customers. Ideally you will be based in Soeborg, however other European GEA locations are also possible.

Your new roles and responsibilities

Drive strategic initiative to best-in-class service proposals

GEA NPE Service is a global organization, and this role offers an opportunity to work globally in managing the implementation and roll-out of RR concepts to ensure that our service organization can adopt these new competences. Recurring Revenue is one of GEA’s overall strong targets to improve and you will be working with the entire management team to ensure a successful change in our business

The role includes the responsibility of a product manager for the overall recurring revenue offering but it is crucial for your success to show strong project management abilities to introduce larger changes in our business procedures. You will be leading the implementation and work packages of the project with select countries together with each of their service departments and develop new processes and solutions for a successful implementation of RR.

You will lead change management with the local teams, setting the agenda and driving the cultural change needed. Not only that, but you will also be setting an example and thereby be able to work hands-on in all phases of a contract proposal, ensuring that theory is also exercised.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating closely with Portfolio team, Business Units, Executive Management and local service teams
• Develop a new and stronger offering and setup for GEA to succeed in offering service agreements to customers
• Manage and drive the RR implementation with the support from your service organization
• Coordinate activities, meet deadlines and manage work packages in the project
• Liaison with Product Managers to ensure that the service organization is always aligned with our offering
• Track KPI’s of success and report measures of success to executive mgt.
• Provide continuous support on RR activities for the teams involved
• Ad-hoc support for service management

Project and product management know how and experience

To succeed in this role, you will need to know your way around project and product management, both planning and execution. You will have a natural drive to accelerate initiatives and find solutions that can push the initiative using a strong analytical mindset. You must also have a convincing presence, being able to sell the concept and adapt to meet all stakeholders’ requirements.

Moreover, we imagine that you:

• Have a technical or business educational background, Master’s degree preferred or a background in consulting
• 3-5+ years of experience with internal/external global project management
• Have a strong familiarity or experience with Recurring Revenue/ Service agreements
• Have strong analytical skills & be a conceptual thinker, being able to understand, adapt and convey new concepts
• Strong international mindset and understanding how to deal with different cultures
• Have and promote a collaborative mindset who can lead significant changes of culture and working habits
• Establish and maintain a strong network in your way of working
• Are familiar in working with service cultures and service is a preference
• Speak and write English fluently, allowing you to interact with colleagues and customers across the globe.
• Ability and willingness to travel internationally (approx. 20% per year)

Join an ambitious team

We will make sure that you get the proper training and introduction to our organization, technology, and processes. You can also expect strong support from the service management team and our organization and manager to achieve your targets and professional development. We accept applications from any location in the world, as this is considered a global function.

Will you be our new Product Manager?

Then, follow the link to apply. We will process the applications as we receive them, so we kindly ask you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Please apply via the indicated link. Please note that GEA exclusively uses electronic recruiting, and only applications received through our application system will be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you!