Lead Product Manager

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world's biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You'll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You'll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You'll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Description

About the Role:

Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy that aligns with company objectives, ensuring the product roadmap is well-defined and adaptable to market changes and customer needs.

Collaborate with engineering, design, and marketing teams to drive product development, ensuring alignment on features, timelines, and quality standards while facilitating effective communication between stakeholders.

Leverage deep technical knowledge and market insights to inform product decisions, prioritize features, and ensure the product meets technical standards and competitive benchmarks, ultimately enhancing user experience and satisfaction.

Drive value and impact through developing capability across a the team and acting as a key contributor to the development of the Product Management best practice, ensuring consistent, high standards of practice and delivery, and fostering a collaborative, engaged and high performing culture

Key Responsibilities may include:

• Define and communicate the product vision, roadmap, and strategy in alignment with business goals.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to ensure successful product development and launch.
• Engage with leadership and key stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business objectives.
• Conduct market analysis to identify trends, customer feedback, and competitive landscape to inform product decisions.
• Provide technical guidance and insights on product features and architecture, ensuring feasibility and alignment with technical standards.
• Lead Agile processes, including sprint planning and reviews, to ensure timely delivery of product increments.
• Define and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and inform future iterations.
• Serve as the voice of the customer, ensuring product decisions are customer-centric and enhance user experience.
• Identify potential risks in the product development process and develop mitigation strategies.
• Mentor junior product managers and foster a culture of innovation within the product team.

Additional Details:

• Innovation & Existing Product Stewardship: Balance the development of new offerings with the optimization and enhancement of existing products within Digital Customer Solutions, including end-to-end fresh solutions, reusable asset management, proof of delivery, and more.
• Go-to-Market Leadership: Strategically group products to strengthen existing portfolios, expand market reach, and drive adoption of new offerings.
• Product Experimentation & Deployment: Define and execute hypotheses, experiments, pilots, and deployments for key products.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Lead a collaborative product team, fostering continuous improvement while maintaining a strong focus on customer and business value, quality, and scalability.
• Coaching & Mentorship: Provide guidance to local teams, managers, and executives, ensuring alignment with product best practices.
• Operational Readiness: Build operational and technical readiness across the business to enable scaled product deployment.
• Continuous Improvement & Metrics-Driven Execution: Utilize feedback and key metrics (e.g., quality, delivery rate) to identify opportunities for refinement and growth.

Experience:

Essential

• Lead a product from idea to initial testing and validation, through pivots and changes, to product market fit and accelerated growth
• 7+ years' experience leading, managing or influencing multiple functions, geographies and stakeholders (ideally in a global digital product portfolio).
• Created and lead cross functional and multi-country product initiatives
• Full product development lifecycle, with exposure to a wide array of technologies, methodologies and business environments

Nice to have

• Supply chain, logistics, consulting or FMCG background
• Familiarity with IoT devices, capability, limitations
• Experience in a start-up environment

Desirable Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Advanced degree (MS, MBA, or Ph.D) in relevant field

Remote Type

Hybrid Remote

Skills to succeed in the role

Adaptability, Agile Methodology, Backlog Management, Cross-Functional Work, Data-Driven Decision Making, Digital Literacy, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Inclusive Leadership, Innovation, Learn From Mistakes, Market Analysis, Market Opportunity Identification, Mentorship, Motivating Teams, Prioritization, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Stakeholder Engagement, Storytelling, Talent Development, Unit Testing, Value Driven Product Design

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

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