This role sits above Engineering and Manufacturing product domains to enable Smart Factory outcomes through organisational development and platform integration, ensuring the landscape (especially PLM and MES) evolves as a coherent product set - with clear strategies, adoption plans, and measurable value.
As a Senior Manufacturing and Engineering Product Manager, your mission is to maximise the value delivered by multiple digital products by defining clear product strategies, aligning roadmaps with business priorities, and enabling Product Owners and teams to deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable solutions. You will report to the Head of IT Product or Product Stream Lead.
You will:
• Define and own product strategies and roadmaps for a group of products, ensuring alignment with business goals and product stream direction.
• Lead, coach, and support multiple Product Owners, enabling strong product ownership and consistent value delivery
• Partner with senior business stakeholders to shape priorities, challenge assumptions, and balance demand with delivery capacity
• Oversee product delivery and performance, ensuring progress against roadmaps and continuous improvement of outcomes.
• Act as an escalation point for complex product, delivery, and stakeholder issues.
• Ensure security, compliance, and risk considerations are appropriately addressed across all products in scope. Scope and focus
• Smart factory enablement (organisation + capability): drive the non-technical enablers required to scale (standard ways of working, training pathways, governance, adoption model, site rollout patterns).
• PLM + MES integration into the enterprise landscape: ensure engineering definition, execution data, and operational traceability connect cleanly through the lifecycle, aligned with target architecture principles.
• Portfolio coherence across products: align roadmaps across dependent products (e.g., engineering definition -> manufacturing execution) and manage trade-offs across functions/sites.
Organisational development
• Build and execute an organisational development plan for smart factory enablement: capability assessment, role definitions, onboarding approach, and training/CoP patterns.
• Help define the skills and talent required for the future operating model (product, data, OT/IT integration, automation, adoption/change).
Stakeholders / interfaces
• Manufacturing leadership and plant stakeholders (adoption, value, rollout and standardisation).
• Engineering leadership (PLM-enabled process alignment, change control direction).
• Architecture and platform stakeholders (target architecture principles; integration standards; platform governance).
• Technical Council, Ops Council and MTFF
What "great" looks like (deliverables and outcomes)
• A multi-year product strategy and integrated roadmap for Manufacturing and Engineering digital enablement, explicitly addressing PLM/MES/ERP touchpoints and adoption sequencing.
• A clear governance and decision-rights model that supports standardisation while respecting site realities (and provides a path to reduce duplication).
• Demonstrable progress on integration value: reducing manual handovers, improving traceability, and improving data consistency between engineering and execution systems.
• Enable Product Owners through coaching, standards, and consistent product practice, acting as an escalation point where cross-domain conflicts arise.