Opportunity
APA Transported by Maersk has a high growth ambitions for the upcoming years. The head of Product development will translate the growth into strategic roadmap of new product launches, new markets and new verticals penetration.
To constantly improving our ability to meet the customer’s needs, the Head of product development, will drive the product improvement cycle and the OP process for APA TbM.
Collaborate with the TbM product community in the Areas, Region, Center and other stakeholders, such as Sales excellence, Marketing, etc. to drive the existed roadmap and develop new potential products.
Enable the areas with up-to-date product information, training and collaterals, allowing them to promote and launch the products effectively.
Key Responsibilities
- Develops and owns the product development roadmap (multi- year) and its implementation plan.
- Collaborates with key other functions, the achieve the success of product launch and ensure availability of the required toolbox.
- Drives the alignment with key stakeholders across the strategic roadmaps and priorities of Product development.
- Build the APA TbM product development community and drive product improvement and development with various stakeholders.
- Drives the adjustments/ improvements of existed products features based on sales data.
- Develops a pro-active customers feedback/ insight for current features improvement and needed future features.
- Builds the links to other Regions and Centre product leaders to share knowledge and opportunities and develop cross regional offerings and products.
We are looking for
- At least 10 years of experience as a product manager or marketing manager in Logistics or shipping.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to build relationships and engage a team of non-direct reports to build a regional team
- Experience in managing a P&L for a product or function is a plus.
- Strategic research skills to source external trends and benchmarks.
- Ability to identify and influence stakeholders and manage messaging to different audiences across the business.
- Self-starting skills to identify long list of initiatives and scope directional values.
