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With technology, software and services for smart buildings, we transform the everyday for everyone. By combining the real and digital worlds, we empower our customers to reach their decarbonization goals, lower their operating costs and create world-class occupant experiences for their people. It’s not just about improving buildings – it’s about creating efficient, safe, adaptable and sustainable environments, which improve the way the world lives and works.

Within our buildings business, our diverse global team will support you through your career and challenge you to grow in new and exciting ways, as we transform the world’s infrastructure. Our shared journey could take you anywhere…where would you like to go? 

Our comprehensive global Fire Safety technologies encompass a wide range of areas, including detection, alarming, evacuation, extinguishing, danger management, and building management. With our extensive product offerings, we ensure the protection of individuals, assets, and businesses with unparalleled performance and efficiency.

The Detection & Signaling Product Line provides innovative and state-of-the-art detectors, signaling, and supplementary products that safeguard life, health, and assets within the global fire safety ecosystem. It upholds a commitment to sustainability and technology with a purposeful intent.

Within our dedicated Detection & Signaling team, we are seeking an enthusiastic Product Family Manager - Fire Safety Peripherals to drive the advancement of the segment’s vision and strategy. In this role, you will manage the entire product family portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment across multiple products and supporting individual product managers. Additionally, you will take direct ownership of selected products throughout their complete lifecycle - from concept and definition to development, launch, and end-of-life planning.

You will collaborate closely with external partners, engineering, developers, product managers, and customers to identify requirements for innovative solutions that fuel future growth. This position demands strong strategic planning, market analysis, and product development expertise, combined with leadership in system-level integration and mentoring.

Join our team and collaborate with us in shaping a more prosperous future. We eagerly anticipate introducing you to our dynamic and engaging environment!

Location: this role will be based in Zug/Switzerland. Please note that qualified candidates need to be legally eligible for work authorization in Switzerland.

Your new responsibilities:

• System Overview: Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the entire fire safety system architecture, including integration with control panels and building management systems. Ensure seamless interoperability and regulatory compliance across all components, proactively identify dependencies and risks, and work closely with engineering teams to enable smooth integration of new products into existing ecosystems
• Innovation Management: Drive continuous innovation by identifying emerging technologies, market trends, and customer needs. Foster a culture of creativity and collaboration to develop new solutions that enhance the product portfolio, maintain competitive advantage, and uncover new use cases and applications
• Product Lifecycle Management: Oversee the complete lifecycle of all products within the family, including strategy development, roadmap planning, and end-to-end coordination. Ensure alignment across individual Product Managers, support new product launches, maintain profitability of product families, and plan discontinuation in line with portfolio strategy
• Product Specification: Guide and support Product Managers in defining and prioritizing requirements. Collaborate with customers, engineering teams, and external partners to ensure features address pain points, improve user experience, and comply with standards and regulations
• Product Maintenance: Coordinate ongoing maintenance and enhancement activities across the product family to ensure competitiveness, customer satisfaction, and timely resolution of issues
• Market Research: Conduct comprehensive market research to gain insights into the current needs of customers, prevailing market and regulatory trends, and competitive dynamics. Identify areas for enhancement and opportunities to improve the existing products and generate detail competitive analysis
• Product Launch: Develop comprehensive marketing strategies, coordinate sales teams, and manage promotional activities to guarantee the successful launch of products. Align all stakeholders and provide support to ensure a seamless product introduction
• Financial Analysis: Conduct regular portfolio analysis to assess the performance of existing products, identify opportunities for growth and optimization, and ensure alignment with overall business strategy
• Mentoring and Support: Mentor and support the Product Management team by fostering knowledge sharing, and key processes. Provide guidance on best practices and ensure alignment with overall product line strategies and workflows

Your talents and experience:

• University degree or higher education in engineering, business engineering, or a comparable field
• 8+ years of product management experience, in product development or engineering projects, preferably within safety-critical or regulated environments
• Proven experience in driving innovation, overseeing system-level integration, and mentoring product managers while delivering portfolio strategies that meet regulatory compliance, interoperability standards, and quality objectives
• Demonstrated ability to manage a diverse product family by ensuring strategic alignment across multiple products and teams, while leveraging market and competitive insights to shape portfolio strategies
• A comprehensive understanding of business economics and financials, coupled with a long-term strategic mindset
• Experience within the fire safety industry or related building management systems and services is highly valued
• Familiarity with lean/agile development methodologies, such as SAFe, is advantageous
• Resilience in challenging situations, a well-structured and analytical approach to work, and excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential
• Proficiency in English is a prerequisite. Knowledge of German and other European languages is an added advantage

Employee benefits

• 2–3 days per week of mobile working is standard
• Access to employee share programs
• Further information about employee benefits can be found here

What it’s like working for us
We place significant emphasis on fostering an inclusive and flexible working culture that encourages everyone to be their authentic selves. Equal opportunities and diversity are important to us and contribute to an enriching corporate culture. We actively embrace mobile working to provide every colleague with more autonomy and the chance to achieve a good work-life balance. Learn more here

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I look forward to receiving your application

Carmen
Talent Acquisition Partner

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