Manbau

#66 - Product Manager - Packaging

Manbau Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

Business Consulting and Services · 11-50 employees

4 d ago
product-manager Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time Spain
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About the role

Own the pallet portfolio lifecycle and roadmap, using market and customer insights to prioritize product development, investments, RFQs, and portfolio performance. Support Sales with product expertise, value propositions, pricing, and training, while advancing innovation in recycled materials and circular packaging.

What they look for

Product Management Portfolio Roadmapping Market Analysis Customer Insight Business Case Development Financial Acumen Cross-Functional Project Leadership Product Development RFQ Management Stakeholder Management Commercial Support Pricing Strategy Sales Training Performance Monitoring Forecasting Sustainability

Requirements

A degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Packaging, Business Administration, or a related field and at least five years of Product Management experience are sought. Candidates should have cross-functional project leadership experience, strong commercial and financial acumen, and a customer-oriented, data-driven approach; packaging, logistics, pallet, reusable packaging, or plastic injection molding experience is advantageous.

Full description

Key responsibilities

  • Own the pallet portfolio roadmap end-to-end, from introduction to phase-out.
  • Define priorities based on market opportunities and business value, and keep the portfolio profitable, competitive and streamlined.

Market & customer insight

  • Track market, competitor and customer trends across logistics, retail, pooling, industrial and export packaging.
  • Turn customer feedback into product improvements.

Business case & product development

  • Build business cases with Finance team for new products, customisations and investments (market potential, volumes, profitability, CAPEX).
  • Define product requirements with Engineering and Operations, and support launch readiness alongside the Program Manager.

RFQs & customer opportunities

  • Manage pallet-related RFQs, define product solutions and coordinate product modification requests, working with Sales and Engineering.
  • Follow opportunities through the internal process and track conversion and post-launch performance.

Commercial support

  • Act as the go-to product expert in customer meetings, building value propositions and supporting pricing and profitability decisions.
  • Train Sales teams on the pallet portfolio.

Performance & innovation

  • Monitor sales, margin, volume, market share and forecast accuracy; act on deviations.
  • Bring market-driven ideas on recycled materials, PPWR and circular economy to the Innovation team, and translate sustainability into customer value.

What we're looking for

  • Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Packaging, Business Administration or similar.
  • 5+ years in Product Management, ideally in Packaging or Logistics; experience with pallets, reusable packaging or plastic injection molding is a plus.
  • Track record leading cross-functional projects, with strong commercial and financial acumen.
  • Strategic thinker, customer-oriented, comfortable with data-driven decisions and stakeholder management.

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