Product Development Manager

An international Lease Company.

As a member of the International Products & Profitability team, the Product Development Manager participates in the development and on-going maintenance of internationally harmonized products and new product developments as well as in strategic product analysis. The Product Development Manager takes ownership and promotes the deliverables of the team to the commercial community within the Corporate Center, the countries.

Principle Responsibilities

Internationally Harmonized Products, Product Development and Product Manual Database
• Maintenance and further development of Core Products, according to market trends and needs
• Analyze market needs for new products and services and detect best practices
• Contribute to new product and service initiatives
• Maintenance of Product Manual database.

New Profitability Model
• Maintenance and further development of the New Profitability Model including its (web-based) tools
• Communicate the end users relating the usage and further development
• Build reports in Business Objects based on the information available in the (local) databases

Operational support & management
• Provide product development consulting to country management and senior holding executives
• Promote and champion the Product Manual database
• Take responsibility for the product change request procedure and initiate share of best practices
• Maintain the relevant intranet pages via the content management tool
• Support Project initiation activities.

Place in the organisation
• The Product Development Manager reports to the Senior Manager International Products & Profitability
• The International Products & Profitability team consists of 4 professionals and is part of the Business Development department
• Primary contacts are Business Development executives, country management and country product champions.

Capacity for:
• conceptual thinking along multi dimensional axis
• modeling skills
• parallel scenario thinking
• analytical thinking
• financial reporting
Ability to interpret trends and foresee their applicability.
4 to 6 years relevant work experience in a commercial environment.
Strong English language skills, Dutch would be advantageous.
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Candidates have graduated either on academic or bachelor level
Experience with MS office, preferably also MS Access
Flexible attitude, stable and mature personality, performs under time pressure.
Willing to travel to foreign entities on a regular basis