Portfolio Manager

Survitec is a global leader in Survival Technology, trusted to protect lives for over 168 years. Operating in more than 2,000 ports across 96 countries, we are the world’s largest manufacturer and supplier of liferafts, Marine Evacuation Systems (MES) and offshore rental PPE. Our 2,000 global colleagues are driven by our purpose — “We Exist to Protect Lives” — designing and delivering innovative survival, fire and safety solutions that perform when lives depend on them.

As Portfolio Manager, you will have global responsibility for the commercial performance, strategy and lifecycle of Survitec’s Fire and Lifeboat portfolio.

You will define where and how the portfolio grows, combining market and customer insight with product, service pricing and channel strategy. Working across Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Technical Sales, Service and Operations, you will translate market opportunities into clear portfolio priorities and commercially successfully propositions.

Key responsibilities for the Portfolio Manager include but are not limited to:

· Define the end-to end strategy across products, services and rental offerings, in respective portfolio area, aligned to Survitec’s growth objectives. Sets positioning and value propositions (4 P’s; Product, Price, Place/Channels, Promotion)

· Own the full lifecycle from concept through to introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Manages end-of-life decisions with minimal customer disruption. Monitors portfolio lifecycle and tracks revenue, margin, mix, service attach rate and other performance metrics for the offering.

· Set pricing strategy and guardrail to balance margin, competitiveness and compliance; monitor price realisation and margin leakage root causes. Ensure maintenance of price lists and conducts annual price reviews. Design and optimise offering propositions.

· Conduct customer, market and competitive research (offerings, pricing, go-to-market) identify differentiation opportunities. Run voice-of-customer programs, feeds insights into PLM.

· Review and evaluate all CDF (new offering or variant requests)- with Engineering. Ensure compliance to NPD process of stage gate reviews in portfolio category, securing sufficient commercial support & evidence for each development.