Market & Offering Manager _ Wind Power

Our Vaisala solutions contribute to societies and people’s lives in over 150 countries – and can even be found in space. With our technological innovations for measuring weather, environmental and industrial conditions, we have a key role in solving the grand social and environmental challenges of our time. We offer you a career with a clear purpose and a chance to create observations for a better world.

Building on over 80 years of experience, we employ approximately 1,900 professionals worldwide today. We are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki stock exchange and our headquarters is located in Finland. 

Vaisala’s industry-leading weather observation technologies, instruments, and solutions lay the foundation for the Weather and Environment business area’s strategy, enabling our customers to improve their ability to measure and forecast weather and weather phenomena. The business area serves selected weather-dependent customers to whom accurate, real-time, uninterrupted, and reliable weather data is essential to run efficient operations.

Our subsidiary Vaisala France SAS, located in Saclay is the world leader in ground-based and wind turbine-nacelle mounted Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) equipment for atmospheric observation. 
The company designs, develops, manufactures, sells and services turnkey remote-sensing instruments for wind measurement and aerosol characterization. Leosphere, a Vaisala company, employs 140 professionals who together build high-technology solutions for atmospheric observations.
 

Missions
As part of the constant growth and development of our activities in the wind energy market, Vaisala France SAS is recruiting a "Product & Offering Manager  – Wind Power", in order to strengthen our "Renewable Energy Business" team.

Reporting to the Head of Market & Offering, you will be in charge of driving the wind turbine sensors offering, from market analysis to product and business development strategy.

The market you will be in charge is the global wind turbine sensors market. The products are in particularly wind lidars, anemometers and environmental sensors. Externally you will work with wind turbine manufacturers, wind farm developers and operators, expert service providers and industry opinion leaders. Internally you will work with product development teams, sales team, science team and marketing team.

Your significant missions will consist of:
-    Establish and manage the products strategy with internal and external stakeholders, based in France and Finland
-    Manage the product development and lifecycle with R&D Project Manager and Industrialization Manager
-    Build value proposals, products positioning, competition analysis, customer application and business cases
-    Collect and organize business intelligence 
-    Evaluate short-term and long-term product sales quantity
-    Support Sales Managers and Distributors to develop business, which includes participation to pre-sales, industry events & customer meetings, and sales training
-    Create product presentations, coordinate scientific proofs and sales kit documents with Tactical Marketing and Scientific Marketing

Profil
Engineering/MSc Degree, with ideally a specialization in Renewable Energies and/or in strategic Marketing 
3 years experience in a similar position.

Technical knowledge and skills

•    Strong orientation into markets, customers and applications 
•    Can work with high tech teams, comfortable with technologies, sensors and data
•    Can manage product development roadmap
•    Interested in Renewable Energy industry
•    Language: Fluent English 

Soft skills
•    Entrepreneur
•    International
•    Agile
•    Strategic mindset

Practical information

Place of work:         Saclay (91)
Type of contract:     Permanent contract
Calendar:                 As soon as possible.
 

If you got interested, apply via the application form.