Product Manager at BURN

Product Manager at BURN – BURN Kenya Job Details

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.