SVP, Head of Product Line Floorcare

Join Nilfisk as our new SVP Head of Product Line Floorcare and play a defining role in shaping the future of one of our most strategically important product domains. You will lead the global Floorcare portfolio endtoend from strategy and innovation to lifecycle profitability and market impact. At Nilfisk you will join a company with 120 years of engineering heritage a global customer footprint and an ambitious transformation journey where your leadership will directly influence how we grow innovate and deliver value to customers worldwide.

Major Function

As SVP Head of Product Line Floorcare you will be responsible for the overall performance competitiveness and longterm strategy of the Floorcare portfolio at a global scale. Your role centers on defining a clear product and solution roadmap ensuring market alignment and driving sustainable growth through crossfunctional collaboration. You will oversee the full lifecycle of the portfolio from insight and development to gotomarket execution and profitability.
This role can be based in the USA (Brooklyn Park) Denmark (Copenhagen or Hadsund) Hungary (Budapest or Nagykanizsa) or Italy (Piacenza). The position reports to EVP Chief Technology Officer and collaborates closely with stakeholders across global regions operations sourcing marketing sales service and regulatory functions. As this is a global leadership role some international travel should be expected to engage with regional teams customers and key partners.

Your New Team

You will lead a global team of product management product development and product lifecycle management. Youll co-operate with a highly collaborative international team working across marketing operations regional sales and commercial functions. Team members are located across Europe North America and key regional hubs working together closely to deliver a unified and futureready portfolio.
Teams collaborate in a matrix setup combining strategic direction with local market insight to support strong execution.

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic direction of the global Floorcare portfolio using market insights customer pain points competitive analysis and industry trends to guide prioritization and longterm planning and regional requirements while aligning with regional leaders. Ensure R&D turns these priorities into products that genuinely reflect market needs.

• Shape the product and solution roadmap ensuring products meet market needs support Nilfisks vision and deliver strong customer value.

• Oversee crossfunctional product development ensuring requirements for quality cost design sustainability and operational readiness are embedded throughout the development process.

• Drive Portfolio/Product growth and profitability: Manage overall growth and profitability of the portfolio by driving VA/VE/Cost reduction initiatives with Operations sourcing pricing and regional teams.

• Lead impactful gotomarket execution partnering with regional teams on positioning launch strategies customer engagement channel strategy sales enablement and training.

• Act as the primary liaison across internal stakeholders ensuring strong collaboration between operations sourcing marketing regions service and legal teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Why Join Us

Nilfisk is home to passionate curious professionals who want to make an impact. Here you will influence a major product domain with high visibility and strategic importance across the company. You will partner with experts around the world shape customercentric solutions and drive crossfunctional alignment that supports longterm growth.
You will also benefit from an international work environment leadership autonomy and opportunities to shape strategy at both executive and operational levels.

Qualifications to Succeed in the Position

To thrive in this role you bring a blend of strategic vision commercial sharpness and crossfunctional leadership. You likely have:

• University degree in Technical or Commercial field.

• Extensive experience leading global product lines portfolios or solution strategies in a complex international organization.

• Solid track record in guiding products through the full lifecycle from insights and concepting to development launch optimization and phaseout.

• Strong understanding of market dynamics customer needs and competitive landscapes with the ability to translate insights into impactful decisions.

• Experience collaborating with operations sourcing service and R&D teams to deliver quality cost and design outcomes.

• The ability to influence without authority

• An analytical mindset and confidence managing pricing cost value engineering and financial levers of portfolio performance.

Beyond your experience you bring a modern inspiring leadership style. You stay closely connected to customer needs and ensure that decisions consistently create real value.

You set a clear strategic direction empower teams to deliver and nurture a culture built on trust accountability and continuous improvement. You communicate with clarity build strong relationships across the organization and create alignment in complex global settings. You encourage innovation challenge established thinking and support your people in learning growing and performing at their best.

Interested

If this role resonates with your next strategic career move we encourage you to apply. Your unique experience may be exactly what were looking for. Please submit your CV and cover letter in English by 15th March.

Lets create a cleaner future together

Cleaning has emerged as a key contributor to health and safety sparked by technology and innovation. At Nilfisk we are a driving force in this development. Being part of Nilfisk means thinking outside of the box bringing your inspiring ideas to life sharing the results and learning from your setbacks. We believe that diversity is our greatest strength as we achieve the best results from a wide variety of views and approaches. At Nilfisk you have the freedom to be yourself and express your opinions. Nilfisk is firmly committed to growth and sustainability in everything we do. You will be empowered in your role as you collaborate with passionate colleagues on a quest to create a cleaner future.

Are you ready to make a change fora cleaner future

We embrace diversity and equality with an environment of inclusion. We encourage everyone to apply for the position regardless of origin race ethnicity religion physical or mental ability gender gender-identity or expression sexual orientation and age.

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