Product Line Release Manager – Fire Safety Technologies
Together with our customers, we combine the real and digital worlds to create efficient, safe and sustainable building environments. Within our buildings business, our global team supports your career and challenges you to grow in new and exciting ways.
We are seeking an experienced Product Line Release Manager to drive the successful execution of our product line roadmap. In this role, you will take end-to-end responsibility for coordinating all releases – from concept to launch – across the complete product line portfolio.
Location
Zurich/Zug, Switzerland – candidates must be eligible for work authorization in Switzerland.
Your new responsibilities
* End-to-End Release Management: Oversee the global product line roadmap and ensure successful execution of all releases from concept to launch by coordinating dependencies across multiple projects.
* Strategic Planning: Develop strategic and annual release plans, including resource and capacity planning, while aligning priorities with key stakeholders.
* Performance Analysis: Monitor key performance indicators to ensure development efficiency, product quality, on-time delivery, effective risk management and optimal budget utilization.
* Team Leadership: Coordinate the global release manager team to ensure consistent processes, synchronized timelines and effective communication for multi-project dependencies.
* Process Ownership: Optimize and orchestrate release management processes while maintaining comprehensive planning documentation.
* Compliance and Governance: Ensure adherence to internal governance, regulatory requirements and security standards throughout the development process.
* Stakeholder Management: Serve as the main coordinator between product line and product development teams, tracking project progress and reporting status, dependencies and milestones.
* Innovation & Roadmap Support: Facilitate innovation, product strategy and roadmap development, ensuring seamless collaboration with product managers and engineering teams.
Your talents and experience
* University degree or higher education in engineering, project management or a comparable field.
* 10+ years of project management experience in product development or engineering projects, preferably within safety-critical or regulated environments.
* Proven track record in planning, executing and delivering complex hardware and software programs on time and within scope, with strong emphasis on meeting regulatory compliance and quality requirements.
* Experience within the fire safety industry or related building management systems and services is highly valued.
* Demonstrated ability to manage and coordinate a consolidated budget across multiple interdependent projects.
* Excellent leadership and people management skills, with proven experience in leading global teams and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders.
* Familiarity with lean/agile development methodologies, such as SAFe, is advantageous.
* Resilience in challenging situations, a well-structured and analytical approach to work and excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
* Proficiency in English is a prerequisite. Knowledge of German is an advantage.
Employee Benefits
* Standard mobility: 2–3 days per week of mobile working.
* Access to employee share programs.
* Further information about employee benefits can be found here.
What it’s like working for us
We place significant emphasis on fostering an inclusive and flexible working culture that encourages everyone to be their authentic selves. Equal opportunities and diversity are important to us and contribute to an enriching culture. We actively embrace mobile working to provide every colleague with more autonomy and the chance to achieve a good work-life balance.
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