Product Manager – Offshore Construction
Permanent position
Aberdeen
The Role:
The Product Manager is responsible for shaping and delivering a product portfolio aligned to company strategy, owning product performance and lifecycle management from concept to obsolescence.
They are an expert on customer needs, market dynamics, and product value, translating technical capabilities into clear customer outcomes and compelling value propositions. Working cross functionally across Marketing, Engineering, Digital, Operations, and Sales, they unify teams around a shared product vision and ensure successful delivery from discovery through global deployment.
They lead the development of scalable, commercially successful solutions and ensure products remain competitive, resilient, and aligned with customer and stakeholder expectations.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Product Lifecycle and Portfolio Management:
- Manage the full product lifecycle from initial development and market introduction through growth, maturity, decline, and product obsolescence.
- Manage product inter relationships, allocating resources across the portfolio and defining long range strategy to ensure overall market success.
- Own multi-year product roadmaps aligned to company strategy, ensuring continuous optimisation using customer feedback, performance insights, and market trends.
- Lead cross functional collaboration across engineering, digital, operations, marketing, and sales to ensure successful delivery of roadmap objectives.
- Evaluate build versus buy decisions to ensure effective delivery of new features, capabilities, or products.
- Ensure products incorporate appropriate resilience, quality, and risk mitigation considerations throughout the lifecycle.
Market, Customer and Product Strategies:
- Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience, and drive growth.
- Define the market opportunity for each product, performing segmentation and targeting to identify priority customer groups.
- Conduct market and customer research to gather insight into target personas, buyer needs, and purchasing decision processes, translating product strategy into detailed market requirements.
- Develop product pricing, positioning, and value propositions that resonate with target audiences.
- Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding.
- Support marketing in the development of positioning, value propositions, and messaging content that resonate with the buying audience for sales enablement.
- Evaluate promotional plans to ensure alignment with product strategy and effective communication of value.
- Represent the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on products and services.
New Product Development and Launch:
- Own the New Product Development (NPD) process and content, including initial proposals, market analysis, business plans, and launch activities.
- Assemble and lead NPD teams through the stage gate process.
- Oversee market launches in collaboration with marketing, PR, executives, and product management colleagues.
- Ensure product development activities meet customer, regulatory, technical, and commercial requirements throughout the lifecycle.
- Oversee post launch performance, ensuring lessons learned and customer feedback feed into continuous product improvement.
What we’re looking for:
You will need strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.
Strong communication skills and ability to simplify complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights.
Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage credibly with customers, partners, and internal teams.
Key skills, knowledge and experience:
- Proven work experience in product management or as an associate product manager.
- Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle.
- Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management.
- Experience supporting complex commercial opportunities, bids, or multi stakeholder programmes.
- Solid technical background: understanding or hands on experience in software development or digital technologies is a plus.
- MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent preferred.
Knowledge:
A strong understanding of requirements/management and the ability to translate technical capabilities into clear customer and product definitions.
Knowledge of commercial modelling, pricing, and business case development, familiarity with standards, quality practices, or regulated environments.
Understanding of digital, data driven, or technology enabled solutions.
Skills
Ability to define and own product strategy and long-term roadmap planning for complex product offerings.
Strong analytical skills, including development of ROI assessments, pricing models, and commercial analysis.
- A flexible approach to working will be required as this role will cover our global offering in this sector and will require extensive travel to ensure James Fisher is fully engaged with our client’s needs - this includes North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
Why join us?
Competitive benefits tailored to the division.
Opportunities for career growth and visibility across the organisation.
A supportive, inclusive culture that values your ideas and contributions.
Work that truly makes a difference in safety, innovation, and global capability.
About Us:
James Fisher is a global engineering services company with over 50 years of experience delivering complex offshore energy projects in some of the world’s most challenging environments. We operate across Energy, Defence, and Maritime Transport, leveraging cutting-edge technology and deep expertise to support the full lifecycle of our customers’ assets.
In the Energy Division, we provide safe, efficient solutions across oil & gas and renewables - from well support and full-field decommissioning to integrated services for offshore wind and expert subsea inspection, repair, and maintenance. Our work helps operators extend asset life, reduce downtime, and respond rapidly to operational challenges, driving the global shift toward a cleaner, more sustainable future.
Visit our website at: www.james-fisher.com
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Due to the volume of applications, we receive for our vacancies, on occasion applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
James Fisher and Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and strongly encourage applications for candidates from all backgrounds. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and recognise that our success depends on our talented and diverse workforce.
