Product Manager

BURN MANUFACTURING • Full-time • Nairobi, Nairobi • 1m ago

About the role
BURN is looking for a Product Manager to lead the end-to-end development and lifecycle of innovative clean cooking products, ensuring they deliver strong customer value and align with business goals. The role involves working cross-functionally with R&D, commercial, and operations teams to bring products from concept to market while driving continuous improvement through data and customer insights.

Duties and Responsibilities

Put the customer first. Work closely with Market research, Industrial design and Commercial team to design products that deliver functional and lifetime value to the customer, with a scalable business model.
Developing a comprehensive product roadmap that aligns with the company's overall product strategy.
Work with design engineers to develop and maintain product BOM and Spec sheets.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth product introduction into operations.
Managing the product development process, from ideation to launch, to achieve planned timelines.
Documenting product development processes and creating new ones as needed to improve efficiency and consistency.
Serving as a liaison between R&D, operations, and commercial business functions to ensure alignment on product goals and strategies.
Analyzing and interpreting product performance data to inform product optimization and improvement efforts.
Managing the product lifecycle, including product end-of-life decisions and exit strategies.
Developing and executing product marketing plans, including pricing, promotion, and distribution strategies.
Monitoring industry trends and competitor activity to stay ahead of market developments and identify potential threats or opportunities.
Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and partners, to ensure successful product outcomes and collaboration.

Skills and Experience

Product Ownership: Takes full accountability, accurately scopes projects, and follows through on execution from product ideation to launch activities.
Data-Driven Decision Making: Simplifies complex decisions by framing discussions around real data, including customer feedback, lab tests, costs, profitability analysis, and durability data.
Completeness of Work: Consistently self-checks and validates assumptions to ensure critical details are not missed. Strives to deliver the best results by considering the complexity of the system and its requirements.
Responsiveness & Documentation: Master key aspects of the product quickly and adopt best documentation practices to efficiently extract and share vital information.
Anticipatory Project Management: Stays on top of all the moving pieces in the cross-functional team. Anticipates next steps, risks, and opportunities.
Empathetic Stakeholder Management: Listens and takes feedback with empathy. Builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers and suppliers, to ensure successful product outcomes.
Customer Obsession: Demonstrates a deep, obsessive understanding of customer needs and possesses the technical skills necessary to translate those needs into product features.

Qualified Female Candidates encouraged to Apply

BURN does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).