Lead Product Manager

Description

Manage cost targets, pricing input, and design-to-cost efforts with cross-functional partners.

This is a senior leadership role where your influence will span strategy, product performance, team development, and bringing groundbreaking products to life.

Lead the entire Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) process with rigor and consistency.

Communicate progress, strategy, and insights to senior management and key stakeholders.

Balance technical feasibility with customer needs and commercial value.

Oversee product launches, positioning, and ongoing optimisation.

Lead, mentor, and inspire Product Managers and Technical Product Managers.

Define long-term product vision, goals, and roadmaps across multiple products.

Identify emerging market opportunities and drive disruptive innovation.

Monitor performance using KPIs and guide data-driven decision-making.

Partner effectively with R&D, Engineering, Marketing, Regional Sales Managers, and other ELW teams.

Champion alignment across teams to secure buy-in and accelerate delivery.

Drive product adoption and ensure continuous improvement post-launch.

Occasional solo travel for customer visits, exhibitions, and commercial training.

Stay close to customer needs through direct feedback and market insights.

At ELGA, you will be part of a purpose-driven global organisation committed to technology, sustainability, and innovation. You will lead major product initiatives, influence long-term strategy, and develop cutting-edge solutions that make a real impact.

• Manage cost targets, pricing input, and design-to-cost efforts with cross-functional partners.
• Communicate progress, strategy, and insights to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Lead the entire Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) process with rigor and consistency.
• Balance technical feasibility with customer needs and commercial value.
• Oversee product launches, positioning, and ongoing optimisation.
• Define long-term product vision, goals, and roadmaps across multiple products.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire Product Managers and Technical Product Managers.
• Identify emerging market opportunities and drive disruptive innovation.
• Monitor performance using KPIs and guide data-driven decision-making.
• Partner effectively with R&D, Engineering, Marketing, Regional Sales Managers, and other ELW teams.
• Champion alignment across teams to secure buy-in and accelerate delivery.
• Drive product adoption and ensure continuous improvement post-launch.
• Occasional solo travel for customer visits, exhibitions, and commercial training.
• Stay close to customer needs through direct feedback and market insights.

Requirements

Experience in Product Management within a technical environment.

Strong collaborator across cross-functional teams

High empathy with a customer-first mindset

Exceptional communication (written & verbal)

Visionary thinker able to anticipate future needs

Analytical mindset with strong data-driven decision-making skills

MBA or advanced degree (desirable)

Strong leadership and decision-making

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience with technical products.

Are you a visionary Product Leader ready to shape the future of ELGA’s global product portfolio? Do you thrive on innovation, strategy, and empowering teams to deliver world-class solutions? If so, we want to hear from you.

Strategic thinker with the ability to build actionable roadmaps

• Experience in Product Management within a technical environment.
• Strong collaborator across cross-functional teams
• High empathy with a customer-first mindset
• Exceptional communication (written & verbal)
• Visionary thinker able to anticipate future needs
• Analytical mindset with strong data-driven decision-making skills
• MBA or advanced degree (desirable)
• Strong leadership and decision-making
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience with technical products.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to build actionable roadmaps

Benefits

25 Annual Leave + UK Bank Holidays (with option to buy / sell!), Pension Scheme, Private Medical Insurance, Access to a Private GP, Company Car / Cash Allowance, Company Bonus Scheme and much more!

We know that the expectation of a good role goes both ways, so alongside your salary, you will be part of our market leading pension and share scheme. This is in addition to our extensive benefits package which includes 25 days annual leave, a range of employee discounts and employee referral bonuses - as we’d like nothing more than to give your family and friends an opportunity too! Also, to help you a little further, we provide mental health and financial support, so you know exactly who to lean on whenever you need to.

Permanent, Full-time, Monday - Friday 37 hours

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance