You will take ownership of the service portfolio strategy and lifecycle management for the FDV business unit.
Key Responsibilities
- Installed Base Analytics & Business Insights: Analyze installed base data to identify trends, opportunities, and gaps that support portfolio decisions, service strategies, targeted campaigns, and product development.
- Service Strategy Facilitation: Facilitate and support the service strategy process for the FDV business unit, ensuring alignment between market needs, installed base opportunities, business goals, and functional roadmaps.
- Portfolio Ownership & Lifecycle Management: Own the service portfolio from concept to launch to retirement, including value proposition definition, business case development, lifecycle planning, performance monitoring, and rationalization.
- Service Product, Solution & Campaign Launches: Lead the development and launch of new service products, solutions, and commercial campaigns, ensuring successful go-to-market execution in collaboration with sales, service, and marketing teams.
- Voice of Customer: Gather and translate customer needs, pain points, and feedback obtained through direct customer interactions into actionable portfolio improvements, innovation priorities, and service concepts.
- R&D Roadmap Input: Define and prioritize service-related development needs and translate them into clear requirements for the R&D roadmap, ensuring future offerings support customer needs and strategic priorities.
- Market Intelligence & Competitive Insights: Monitor market developments, customer trends, industry dynamics, and competitor activities, and use these insights as input for portfolio management and strategic decision-making.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with after-sales, sales, technical support, field service, R&D, and marketing to ensure alignment on service portfolio priorities, launches, communication, and execution.
- Marketing & Commercial Enablement: Collaborate with marketing on events, campaigns, communication materials, and value messaging to support portfolio visibility, customer engagement, and sales effectiveness.
- Portfolio Performance Management: Track portfolio performance, adoption, profitability, and customer impact, using data-driven insights to optimize offerings and improve commercial success.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in product management, service portfolio management, aftermarket management, or a related commercial/technical role in industrial equipment or packaging machinery.
- Strong understanding of service business models, installed base management, and lifecycle management.
- Experience translating customer needs and market insights into successful products, solutions, or services.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use installed base and market data to drive decisions and identify growth opportunities.
- Experience in cross-functional collaboration with service, sales, R&D, and marketing teams.
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives and stakeholders in an international environment.
- Strong communication and presentation skills in English; German is a plus.
- Willingness to travel for customer visits, market analysis, and internal collaboration.
At Syntegon, you’ll have the space to grow and make an impact. You’ll work in an international environment with an informal culture and plenty of opportunities to develop yourself.
We believe work should be both rewarding and enjoyable. You’ll be part of an open-minded, supportive team where collaboration, growth, and new ideas are encouraged. Alongside this, we offer a competitive package of benefits to help you thrive both at work and in your personal life:
- Competitive salary with regular reviews
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays to recharge
- Flexible working with annualized hours scheme
- Generous pension scheme with Aviva
- Life assurance of 7 x annual salary for peace of mind
- Simply Health medical cashback plan for everyday healthcare costs
- Income protection after 2 years’ service
- Cycle to Work and Tech schemes to make life easier
- Wellbeing support through Everymind at Work
- A friendly, social culture with regular activities and the chance to grow your career in a global company with a local spirit
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