CIS Mobile Systems Product manager

Smiths Detection

Every minute of every day, Smiths Detection's threat detection and security screening technology helps to protect people and infrastructure, making the world a safer place. 

Smiths Detection, part of Smiths Group is a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place. Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security.

Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five R&D centres, with a global network of 3,000 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.  

This results in careers built on variety and the opportunity to work on a range of state-of-the-art solutions, where you can develop your knowledge and experience every day.

The Role

The Product Manager plays a key role in the growth, sustainability, and improvement of the CIS product range. He/she manages the full lifecycle of one or more products (aligned with the PLP) in order to maximize revenue, market share, profitability, and customer satisfaction, while ensuring alignment with portfolio and group strategy.

Reporting to the Industrial Director, the position holder is responsible for products or product lines such as HCVM XT, HCVM XL and their derivatives, including associated subsystems, in coordination with other product managers.

The role has a truly global scope: it supports all SD regional teams and markets, in close collaboration with business development and marketing, and its activities are validated by the Industrial Director in accordance with the defined strategy.

Main Responsibilities / Duties

• Efficiently manage resources across the site (CoE/factory), suppliers, regions, markets, customers, partners, and affiliates.
• Be responsible for the MRD and PRD: define, align, and drive cross-functional activities to ensure product–market fit and consistency with strategy and roadmap.
• Develop, launch, and manage project/program plans to ensure deliveries that meet customer expectations and financial targets.
• Lead the PLP process and its stages for the entire product portfolio.
• Act as a bridge between technology, sales, programs, marketing, and service to define product specifications; coordinate R&D and design reviews for NPIs.
• Support sales and pre-sales teams during bids and proposals, particularly for technical and compliance aspects.
• Update technical content for sales and training materials; prioritize product improvements and assess their ROI.
• Lead CoO and VAVE initiatives to optimize margin and competitiveness.
• Analyze the market to optimize product segmentation, targeting, and positioning.
• Manage customer complaints and lead cross-team corrective actions.
• Lead new product development and rationalization projects in line with the PLP.
• Implement product launches, sales support, and promotions.
• Capture and communicate the VOC (voice of the customer) and critical customer requirements.
• Develop relationships with decision-makers and government officials; provide product proposals and solutions.
• Collaborate with government affairs to leverage DRM/DRP-related processes.
• Work with manufacturing and sales to establish reliable forecasts.
• Analyze competitors, strengths/weaknesses, pricing, and margin-improvement opportunities; conduct annual price reviews for products and parts.
• Define service concepts in coordination with the service team, in accordance with the PLP.
• Ensure compliance with DfS, DfM, and VAVE principles.
• Apply platformization across the entire product range, aligned with the division.

Qualifications

Degrees:

• Master's degree in engineering, marketing, business management, or a relevant field.

Knowledge:

• 5–8 years of experience in product or business management; involvement in large projects appreciated; product marketing experience preferred; financial knowledge is a plus.
• Experience creating and managing product roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of key company functions (customer service, manufacturing, operations/installation, procurement, sales, projects, marketing, R&D).
• Solid experience developing multi-platform proposals in a creative environment supporting market and sector teams.
• Good understanding of the sales environment and associated constraints.
• Mastery of marketing planning techniques and best practices.
• Experience collaborating within cross-functional and cross-cultural organizations, with the ability to bridge commercial (markets) and vertical (sectors) teams.

Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project) and Visio.
• Knowledge and experience with SAP.
• Excellent communication skills, including fluency in spoken and written English in addition to local languages.
• Strong program, project, and time-management skills; highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder-management abilities.

Required Qualities

• Ability and motivation to persevere to achieve concrete results that drive the business forward.
• Effective collaboration with strong influence, global mindset, and cultural sensitivity.
• Mastery of matrix management, stakeholder management, and virtual teamwork in diverse teams.
• Quick and sound decision-making in a complex global environment, based on analysis of key information.
• Strong understanding of the company's commercial environment and alignment of actions to support business success.
• Ability to engage, challenge, and collaborate effectively with others.
• Capacity to build and maintain a strong internal/external network by understanding customer needs.
• Willingness and ability to support change and continuous improvement.
• Influence and cross-functional leadership in teams without direct hierarchical authority.
• Ease working in an international and multicultural environment.
• Operational rigor in developing effective marketing plans and product roadmaps.
• Resourcefulness and the ability to turn information into actionable insights.

With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Network, and Neurodiversity. 

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network. 

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future. 

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation – including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. Avoid fraudulent requests by applying jobs directly through our career's website (Careers - Smiths Group plc)

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation – including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. Avoid fraudulent requests by applying jobs directly through our career's website (Careers - Smiths Group plc)