Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager

Job Family – Commercial

This family is dedicated to developing customer-focused commercial strategy that inspires customer confidence and loyalty to drive market share. It brings together product management, pricing and contractual terms into attractive and highly marketable customer propositions.

Job Summary

This role is responsible for providing guidance and subject matter expertise to junior portfolio and product colleagues across the function, acting as a centre of expertise for their portfolio area. The role will shape the long-term competitive positioning of the portfolio area, synthesising market intelligence, customer insight and, financial performance to inform Survitec’s growth strategy. Influencing resource allocation and strategic prioritisation at a senior level, this role will drive alignment across Sales, Engineering, Service and regional leadership.

Duties and responsibilities

· Portfolio Strategy & Roadmap: Defines the end-to end strategy across products, services and rental offerings, in respective portfolio area, aligned to Survitec’s growth objectives. Translates strategy into a 3–5-year portfolio roadmap. Sets positioning and value propositions (4 P’s; Product, Price, Place/Channels, Promotion)

· Product Lifecycle Management: Owns the full lifecycle from concept through to introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Manages end-of-life decisions with minimal customer disruption. Monitors portfolio lifecycle and tracks revenue, margin, mix, service attach rate and other performance metrics for the offering.

· Commercial Management: Sets pricing strategy and guardrails to balance margin, competitiveness and compliance; monitors price realisation and margin leakage root causes. Ensure maintenance of price lists and conducts annual price reviews. Designs and optimises offering propositions.

· Market, Customer & Competitor Insight: Conducts customer, market and competitive research (offerings, pricing, go-to-market) identifies differentiation opportunities. Runs voice-of-customer programs, feeds insights into PLM.

· Portfolio NPD & Launch: Reviews and evaluates all CDF (new offering or variant requests)- with Engineering. Ensure compliance to NPD process of stage gate reviews in portfolio category, securing sufficient commercial support & evidence for each development. Defines portfolio- level sales playbooks; enables sellers and service teams.

· Cross-Functional Alignment & Governance: Supports development of sales enablement and knowledge-sharing tools working closely with Technical Sales & Support to ensure usability and adoption. Prepares and participates in Portfolio Review Meetings. Provides executive updates and prepares materials for Portfolio Board reviews.

· Risk, Compliance & Quality: Tracks warranty, returns and field reliability; drives root-cause eradication with Engineering and Operations. Maintains audit readiness for portfolio artefacts and data integrity.

· Safety first: Uphold and contribute to creating a safety-first culture within Survitec.

Essential skills and experience required

· Proven experience taking products to market- strong ownership of go-to-market strategy, including launch planning and commercial enablement.

· Senior-level product management capability, with confidence operating in complex, evolving environments.

· Strong analytical skills.

· Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

· Experience within maritime industry or related domain is highly advantageous.

Values

Our values — Drive, Collaboration, Innovation, and Resolve — are the foundation of our culture. They guide our actions, shape our decisions, and define how we work:
Drive: We are driven by powerful passion. We take bold action and live our purpose with unwavering commitment.
Collaboration: We break down silos and bring our talents together to realise our ambitions with collective strength and accountability.
Innovation: We have a pioneering spirit to push the boundaries and create value by challenging convention and always improving.
Resolve: We are agile, pro-active problem solvers who anticipate change and transform challenges into opportunities.
As a proud member of the team Trusted to Protect Lives, you’ll be empowered to make a real difference.

We aim for excellence in everything we do.