Product Manager role & purpose
The Product Manager, Post-Tensioning owns the competitiveness, usability, and global scalability of Dextra's post-tensioning systems.
He/She acts as a system performance and market adoption driver, ensuring that solutions are optimized for contractor efficiency, cost competitiveness, and ease of implementation across regions.
The role is strongly execution- and market-oriented, contributing directly to volume growth and operational excellence.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Consolidate Voice of Customer and Voice of Market with Product Line Specialists and Regional Sales.
- Define and update the short-, mid-, and long-term product roadmap for the assigned product line.
- Drive product evolution, including improvements, optimization, new variants, and range rationalization.
- Propose roadmap prioritization based on market demand, technical feasibility, cost impacts, and competitive landscape.
- Contribute to volume growth by ensuring product relevance in priority segments and applications.
- Support identification of high-potential applications and emerging market opportunities.
- Provide structured input to Business Development on growth opportunities linked to product evolution.
- Prepare roadmap documentation and participate in review cycles with Product Engineering and Performance, Regional Sales team and Commercial Operations.
2. Product Definition, Technical Requirements & Qualification
Product Definition & Technical Requirements
- Develop and maintain clear technical requirement documents for Product Engineering and Performance based on market needs.
- Translate market insights into structured product specifications and performance expectations.
- Ensure product specifications, drawings, and performance criteria remain accurate and up to date.
- Participate in design reviews with Product Engineering and Performance to validate technical feasibility and alignment with intended applications.
- Support the Specifications team in understanding product capabilities for consultant engagement.
- Provide product-level technical guidance to Specification team and Commercial Operations on correct system use, limitations, and application principles.
- Support early feasibility discussions by clarifying product capabilities and constraints (without performing project-specific design).
Testing, Qualification & Approval
- Coordinate product testing programs with Product Engineering and Performance, QA/QC, and external laboratories.
- Prepare and maintain technical qualification files, approval dossiers, and certification documents.
- Track qualification and approval timelines and escalate risks when delays impact the roadmap.
- Ensure documentation and evidence remain consistent, traceable, and aligned with regulatory or client requirements.
3. Market Positioning, Competitive Intelligence & Product Specifications
Market Positioning & Competitive Intelligence
- Monitor competitive offerings in the market (performance, pricing, certification, applications).
- Identify product gaps, risks and opportunities for differentiation.
- Develop Unique Selling Proposition, use-cases, and product positioning briefs for Specifications team and Regional Sales teams, in collaboration with marketing.
- Support preparation of business cases for product updates, improvements or new developments.
Product Specifications & Influence Strategy
- Develop robust and strategically oriented Product Specifications that position Dextra advantageously in the market,
- Structure specifications to align with customer needs, regulatory expectations, and engineering capabilities, while reinforcing Dextra's competitive differentiation.
- Highlight Dextra's unique value while limiting the feasibility of competing or alternative solutions.
- Support the Specifications team with clear technical positioning guidance.
4. Internal Enablement, Portfolio Coherence & Risk Management
Internal Enablement & Support
- Prepare product launch packs, including technical data sheets, application notes, and training content.
- Deliver product training to Tender team, Specification team and Regional Sales teams.
- Support marketing with technical inputs for brochures, presentations, and digital content.
- Act as a technical reference point for product-related questions escalated from regions, Specifications, or Strategic Accounts.
Portfolio Management Support
- Identify overlaps, redundancies, and inconsistencies across the product range.
- Support portfolio simplification initiatives.
- Flag obsolete, underperforming, or misaligned products.
Risk Identification & Escalation
- Identify technical, certification, and application risks early.
- Escalate gaps between market expectations and product capabilities.
- Highlight risks linked to roadmap execution, approvals, or positioning.
5. External Influence & Innovation
- Conduct continuous technology watch, including the review of scientific and technical publications related to [Bars, Geotec, FRP] applications, innovations, and emerging trends.
- Develop and maintain relationships with universities and research institutions to support innovation initiatives, joint studies, and longer-term development insights.
- Draft technical articles and prepare presentations for industry conferences, seminars, and technical forums to reinforce Dextra's technical leadership and market credibility.
- Conduct lobbying activities within relevant professional associations to strengthen Dextra's visibility, influence, and alignment with industry standards.
Key Interfaces:
- Product Engineering and Performance — product feasibility, testing, validation, documentation
- Tender (Commercial Operations) — product application guidance and feasibility clarifications
- Regional Sales teams — customer feedback and Voice Of Customer, roadmap coherence with future opportunities
- Specifications Team — influence, design guidance, specification alignment
- Strategic Partnerships — alignment with account technical needs
His / Her toolbox includes:
- Roadmap tracking files
- Voice Of Customer / Voice Of Market consolidation sheets
- Competitive benchmark library
- Testing & qualification trackers
- Technical documentation database
- Product Unique Selling Proposition
- Product Specifications
- Product launch templates & training materials
- Product application guidelines and use-case reference library
Guardian of quality and nuclear safety:
- Ensure product documentation, qualification evidence, and requirements meet nuclear safety constraints.
- Maintain strict accuracy and traceability of all technical information.
- Escalate any safety-related concern to Product Engineering and Performance and Management without delay.
Qualifications:
- Engineering degree (Civil, Structural, Mechanical) preferred, with a MSc in Engineering or equivalent training
- Minimum 5-8 years in product development, engineering, technical marketing, or product management
- Strong in MS Office, CRM/PLM tools, documentation systems; Power BI is a plus
- Ability to leverage AI-based tools to improve efficiency, analyze information, and support decision-making.
- Able to translate technical insights into structured requirements
- Comfortable working with Engineering and Sales teams
- Strong follow-up and organizational discipline
- Excellent command of spoken and written English.
