Product Manager Planting/Seeding

Title: Product Manager Planting/Seeding (m/f/d)

Location: Salzkotten, Germany (Hybrid)

Department: Agriculture

About Agriculture

The Trimble Agriculture Division provides solutions that solve complex technology challenges across the entire agricultural supply chain. Our solutions enable farmers to allocate scarce resources to produce a safe, reliable food supply in a profitable and environmentally sustainable manner. Covering all seasons, crops, terrains and farm sizes, Trimble precision agriculture solutions can be used on and with most equipment on the farm, regardless of the manufacturer.

What sets us apart is our Trimble Connected Farm® vision, our unified suite of precision solutions covering all aspects of modern agricultural management. Trimble is focused on increasing intelligence on the implement via generating and utilizing real-time agronomic information on the implement.  Application planning and execution will be accomplished by applying agronomic science while digitizing the crops and their environment. Through universal vehicle and implement integration, seamless data transfer and analysis, and the best positioning/corrections available, farmers can connect as much or as little of their operation as they choose, with easy options for expanding and upgrading as desired.

Introduction

Trimble is recruiting for a Planter Product Manager to fill a critical role within the Production Cycle team. This position will be critical to enabling the Trimble goal of being an industry leader in the planter workflow. Primary responsibilities include working with customers, dealers, universities and others in the industry to establish Trimble as a leader in the planter market.

Primary Duties

This role has lead responsibilities in every aspect of the Product Management job function to establish Trimble as a leader in the planting industry, but will have support from fellow Ag Product Team members focusing on other areas.

• Economic Segmentation and Value Propositions: strive to understand how our customers run their business, make buying decisions and perceive value. Identify pain points and customer value propositions and product positioning by segment. This requires the ability to act as a business analyst when solving complex customer problems.

• Voice of Customer: Assist in VoC to understand key customer pain points and potential for differentiated value propositions, leading to solutioning. 

• Roadmap and Backlog Grooming: Assist in building the 3-5 year connectivity strategy/roadmap. Prioritize execution including product rationalization, lifecycle management, and support escalation management. 

• Feature Definition and Planning Lead: Translate VoC to customer needs and market requirements. Engage engineering to define technical requirements, bringing the voice of the farmer to the design of the product.

• Agile Development Product Lead: Work with technical leads to help plan development efforts for the agile software teams.

• Product Feature Validation: represent the end user by testing new features and providing real-time feedback throughout the development process. 

• Go-To-Market: direct Go-To-Market messaging by collaborating with the Trimble Ag Marcom team on targeted market segments and new feature value propositions.

• Issue Resolution:  Act as primary point person to coordinate resolution of any major customer issues in collaboration with the global support team, resellers and end users.

Preferred Skills, Experience, & Education

• 5+ Years of Product Management experience

• Familiarity with Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Methodologies

• Domain Expertise in Telematics, Ag Software or other Connectivity technologies

• Experience executing go-to-market strategies

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and lead customers

• Bachelor's degree in technology, GIS, agriculture or related discipline

• Knowledge of Jira, Salesforce is helpful

• SaaS business model and metrics 

• Excellent communication and presentation skills (both written and verbal) in German and English language

Information to Review

The following links are recommended in order to better your understanding of Trimble, and the products available within this particular division.

• Trimble

• Trimble Agriculture

• Trimble Ag Software