Senior Specialist - Product Management
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About the Role
POWERTECH Engines seeks a Senior Specialist in Product Management to support aerospace propulsion products from concept through lifecycle. The role connects customers, commercial teams, and technical functions, requiring experience in product management, aerospace engineering, or related fields.
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Responsibilities
- Support product strategies, roadmaps, lifecycle plans, business cases and investment proposals
- Analyse customer needs, market trends, competitor products, technologies and regulatory requirements
- Translate customer and market needs into measurable and traceable product requirements
- Coordinate activities across Engineering, R&D, Programme Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales and Commercial teams
- Monitor product maturity, technical progress, milestones, risks, dependencies and commercial readiness
- Support design reviews, programme gates, testing, validation, qualification, certification and customer acceptance
- Contribute to industrialisation, production readiness, first article activities and new product introduction
- Support product cost, pricing, value engineering, profitability and make or buy assessments
- Identify and qualify new customers, partners, markets and business opportunities
- Prepare technical and commercial inputs for proposals, tenders, RFIs and RFPs
- Participate in customer meetings, product demonstrations, exhibitions and industry events
- Monitor product performance, customer feedback, reliability, cost and improvement opportunities
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical or Aeronautical Engineering, Business, Product Management or related field with 5–8 years experience; or Master’s with 4–7 years; or PhD with 3–6 years
- Experience in product management, product development, programme management, aerospace engineering, business development or related technical commercial function
- Experience supporting complex engineering or technology products across multiple lifecycle stages
- Experience in aerospace, defence, propulsion, UAV, gas turbine or Micro Jet engine environments strongly preferred
- Experience in customer engagement, product requirements, market analysis, proposal development and cross functional delivery
- Exposure to testing, certification, industrialisation, production readiness or product launch advantageous
- Knowledge of EASA, FAA or military airworthiness requirements desirable
- Strong commercial awareness, analytical thinking, technical writing and presentation skills
- Familiarity with PLM, requirements management, ERP or project planning tools an advantage
Full Job Posting
Job Overview
- POWERTECH Engines is seeking a Senior Specialist – Product Management to support the strategy, development, commercialisation and lifecycle management of aerospace propulsion products, including Micro Jet engines and related systems.
- This role connects customers, commercial teams and technical functions, supporting products from concept and market assessment through development, testing, certification, industrialisation, production, market launch, customer delivery and in service support.
Key Responsibilities
- Support product strategies, roadmaps, lifecycle plans, business cases and investment proposals.
- Analyse customer needs, market trends, competitor products, technologies and regulatory requirements.
- Translate customer and market needs into measurable and traceable product requirements.
- Coordinate activities across Engineering, R&D, Programme Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales and Commercial teams.
- Monitor product maturity, technical progress, milestones, risks, dependencies and commercial readiness.
- Support design reviews, programme gates, testing, validation, qualification, certification and customer acceptance.
- Contribute to industrialisation, production readiness, first article activities and new product introduction.
- Support product cost, pricing, value engineering, profitability and make or buy assessments.
- Identify and qualify new customers, partners, markets and business opportunities.
- Prepare technical and commercial inputs for proposals, tenders, RFIs and RFPs.
- Participate in customer meetings, product demonstrations, exhibitions and industry events.
- Monitor product performance, customer feedback, reliability, cost and improvement opportunities.
Candidate Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical or Aeronautical Engineering, Business, Product Management or a related field, with 5–8 years of relevant experience; or Master’s degree with 4–7 years; or PhD/Doctor of Engineering with 3–6 years.
- Experience in product management, product development, programme management, aerospace engineering, business development or a related technical commercial function.
- Demonstrated experience supporting complex engineering or technology products across multiple lifecycle stages.
- Experience in aerospace, defence, propulsion, UAV, gas turbine or Micro Jet engine environments is strongly preferred.
- Experience in customer engagement, product requirements, market analysis, proposal development and cross functional delivery.
- Exposure to testing, certification, industrialisation, production readiness or product launch is advantageous.
- Knowledge of EASA, FAA or military airworthiness requirements is desirable.
- Strong commercial awareness, analytical thinking, technical writing and presentation skills.
- Familiarity with PLM, requirements management, ERP or project planning tools is an advantage.
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