Product Manager - Vacuum Valves

About VAT Group

At VAT, we change the world with vacuum solutions. As the world's leading supplier of high-performance vacuum valves, we have been driving innovation for more than 60 years. With over 3,200 employees worldwide, we operate from our headquarters in Haag, Switzerland, with manufacturing sites in Switzerland, Malaysia and Romania, as well as sales and service hubs around the world. We guided by our passions integrity, teamwork, customer centricity, and innovation - always working together as #oneVAT.

Joining us means becoming part of a passionate, international team where your voice is heard, your ideas matter, and your career growth is supported.

Product Manager

The role is responsible for managing the lifecycle and commercial success of VAT's Valves & Modules portfolio, acting as the interface between customers, sales, and internal teams. It combines technical product management with strategic market and customer development.

Responsibilities

• Own the responsibility for VAT's Valves & Modules product series.
• Manage your valves product life cycle during all phases.
• Own the interface to sales teams and customers for all technical aspects in defined markets.
• Coordinate simultaneous developments of multiple product solutions according to customer requests and product roadmap.
• Monitor and optimize profitability of product lines and regions. Implement value pricing and value propositions.
• Cooperate with all BU's of VAT to take advantage of synergies in product offering to ADV customers.
• Identify market trends and technical roadmaps of customers to derive needs for adaptation of VAT's product offering.
• Support the sales entities of VAT group in product training, customer acquisition, product presentations and negotiations.
• Establish technical customer documentation like manuals and product data sheets according to applicable regulatory requirements.

Qualifications:

• Degree in science or engineering. A good know how of mechanical and electrical systems and vacuum experience is required.
• Additional degree in economics and / or marketing or successful record of accomplishment in a commercial position.
• Fluent in English, ability to negotiate in speaking and writing. Fluency in German is of advantage.
• Strong experience in managing international customers and projects on a global scale.
• Powerful entrepreneur mindset and strategic thinking.
• Ability to identify market developments and derive requirements that influence the future valve business.
• Experience in product management is preferred.