Global Product Manager

Belgrade or Nis, Serbia - Full Time

SpotLIGHT of the job

Our Zumtobel Product Management (PM) Team “Trunking Systems & Protected Luminaires”: experts working together to push boundaries and inspire the market. The main goal of our "Trunking Systems & Protected Luminaires" team is to offer our clients the best lighting solutions for various applications, including retail, industry, chemical, food processing, education, and offices. The Product Management team is responsible for overseeing the global product portfolio while considering related emergency lighting, connectivity products, as well as digital solutions and services for the Zumtobel and Thorn brands. This is done in clear alignment with the company’s brand, application, and sustainability strategy.

We are looking for a Global Product Manager in our Global Business Centre in Belgrade or Nis, who will be managing the entire product lifecycle and innovating the next generation of lighting solutions worldwide.
As a Global Product Manager, you oversee the entire product lifecycle—from idea generation to the phase-out of relevant applications. You are responsible for identifying opportunities and driving growth through innovation and change while maintaining fundamental business goals and priorities. You manage all activities for the Zumtobel brand on a global scale, with a strong focus on goal-setting for each product range.

Responsibilities

• Developing, defining & implementing the Product Roadmap: You drive disruptive product breakthroughs by developing a global product roadmap—from ideation, product specification, and make-or-buy decisions to launch. You oversee the complete life cycle, including hardware, software, and services, to achieve market share targets. Through proactive collaboration with Sales, Brands, and R&D, you ensure the successful implementation of the roadmap in the market.
• Managing, monitoring & evaluating performance: You take full responsibility for the profitability of product families, ensuring alignment with company goals, on-time and cost-effective delivery, and strategic positioning. Additionally, you support marketing plans and optimize pricing strategies. You continuously monitor and evaluate portfolio performance in collaboration with brands to facilitate informed investment decisions.
• Gathering trends & driving innovation: To identify competitive attributes and value propositions, you work closely with Market Intelligence and Sales to analyze global markets, technologies, competitors, and customer trends. By leveraging advanced methodologies and tools, you stay ahead of the competition, identifying customer needs, opportunities, and risks for strategic positioning.
• Providing training & presentations: You share product and application knowledge through engaging, in-depth training sessions, demonstrations, and presentations for customers, stakeholders, and sales teams.
• Collaboration & Communication: You collaborate efficiently and serve as a key interface for all relevant stakeholders—Application Management, Brand Marketing, Pricing, Sales, Product Development, PMO, Innovation Hub, Global Launch Management, Market Intelligence, and Production—ensuring optimal outcomes for both our customers and business objectives.

Skills & Experience

• You have a magnetic, charismatic personality with empowering, inspiring communication skills, an empathetic and supportive working style, combined with a unifying enthusiasm for Product Management.
• You have successfully completed a bachelor's degree, either with profound technical understanding or a strong interest in technology.
• You have already gained initial relevant experience and demonstrated success in a product management, sales, or product-focused role, in a technology, industrial, B2B, electro-mechanical equipment environment.
• Thanks to your excellent quantitative and analytical skills, as well as your strategic, modern, entrepreneurial, and problem-solving mindset, it is easy for you to create product roadmaps and portfolios and implement them using your professional project management skills and/or your highly organized way of working—this is your success factor.
• You have exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to confidently communicate, influence, and challenge at all levels, orchestrating interdisciplinary, decentralized, and remote teams into outstanding success.
• You have a curious, agile mindset and are open to new ideas, trends, and topics. You care about sustainability issues, and this influences your decisions.
• You are a passionate and energetic person who enjoys presenting, storytelling, and communicating in a pleasant, credible, and empathetic manner—fluent in English and ideally in German as well.
• Personally, you have a "never give up" attitude and a "walk the talk" mentality, combined with an authentic, approachable, consistent, trustworthy, self-confident, and resilient presence.
• You support the brand's and its product offerings’ external market presence by being willing to travel abroad (30% of the time).

What we offer

• A truly international working environment with global stakeholders and diverse cultures.
• Employee well-being and family support programs, including private health insurance.
• Social gatherings and community events that foster collaboration and connection.
• Strong focus on personal and professional growth, with access to internal and external training opportunities.

What matters to us

We understand not only the power of the visible, but also the invisible. Like light, diversity is intangible, but it is perceptible. We value the uniqueness of every person and see this as a driver of innovation. Qualified applicants will be considered regardless of, for example, origin, skin color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or disability.

As the contact person for this position, a great candidate experience is important to me! I will reach out to you within 7 days. Please inform me of any assistance you may need, so I can best support you throughout the hiring process.

Talent Acquisition Partner

Kristina Popovic

kristina.popovic@zumtobelgroup.com

Who we are

At the Zumtobel Group, we are passionate about designing and producing light that empowers humans and brings architecture to life. We continuously push the boundaries in our search for perfection through timeless design, technical excellence and efficient performance. Through light, we create spaces that inspire. As we develop the next generation of lighting, we consider the wellbeing of people and nature. Our lighting is designed for our customers and their individual aspirations. We guide them into a new world of opportunities – as a group, and through all our individual brands, Thorn, Tridonic and Zumtobel.

Learn more about our Group in our enlightening video - where WE LIVE LIGHT and thrive together! The result is a series of personal and authentic insights into our corporate culture - illustrated from different perspectives.

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We share a passion for light, creating aesthetic, functional, and sustainable lighting solutions that enhance quality of life.

WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT CREATING INNOVATIVE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.

Sustainability and innovation drive everything we do — shaping a responsible, climate-neutral future.

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