Product Manager Sport & Travel Bags

About Thule Group
Thule Group is a world leader in products that make it easy to bring the things you care for ? easily, securely and in style, when living an active life. Under the motto Active Life - Simplified, we offer products within three segments: Outdoor&Bags (e.g. equipment for cycling, water and winter sports, roof boxes, bike trailers, baby joggers, laptop and camera bags, backpacks and cases for mobile handheld devices), Towing (towbars) and Specialty (snow chains and pick-up truck tool boxes).

Thule Group has approximately 2,900 employees at 45 production facilities and sales offices worldwide. The products are sold in 125 markets and sales in 2013 amounted to SEK 5.1 billion. For more information, please visit www.thulegroup.com

About the position
In the summer of 2014 Thule made an exciting new and broad entry into the field of technical backpacks with a complete range of high end products. This in combination with our previously launched range of sport duffel bags, bike travel cases, bike bags and panniers and a large series of daypacks/backpacks makes us want to strengthen our organization further with a Product Manager responsible for this category.

As Product Manager Sport & Travel Bags you will be responsible for managing and coordinating Sport & Travel Bags portfolio for Business Area Outdoor & Bags Rest-of-World. You will be the product expert for the products in the category, supporting the Sales department with your product expertise, trainings, and general market & category knowledge. Your key responsibilities will be to analyze the market, gather consumer insights, make competitive analyses and plan the product life cycle to ensure the strong development of the product category in a highly competitive market.

You will work in close cooperation with Sales, Marketing, Project Managers, Product Development, Products Managers and Operations with production units in China. The position is based in our head office in Malmö, Sweden, and requires approximately 40 travel days annually.

To be successful in this role you have a strong commercial mindset & share our great passion for the outdoors. Your ability to easily communicate, analyze data, conceptualize visions of the segment and excellent cooperation skills are other key ingredients in your personal profile. We work in an international environment where a high level of English is required. You have an academic degree in business or engineering with well documented experience from a similar role as product manager, preferably from the sports industry. Experience from leading in a matrix organization and in an international environment is advantageous.

Thule is a strong value driven company. We believe that our employees should be able to identify themselves with our motto Active Life - Simplified. For us this means that you are curious, enjoy taking upon challenges and that you live an active life.

You will report to Manager Product Management, Eric Norling who is able to answer more detailed questions concerning this position, telephone number +46 40 635 9008. Apply through our website www.thulegroup.com/career, we want your application no later than September 3rd.

We look forward to your application!