Product Manager – Biomass
Location | Nairobi, Kenya |
Date Posted | April 8, 2023 |
Category |
Management
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Job Type |
Full-time
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Currency | KES |
Description

BURN designs, manufactures, and distributes aspirational fuel-efficient cooking products that save lives and forests in the developing world.BURN has revolutionized the global cookstove sector by proving the business case for selling a high quality, locally manufactured and unsubsidized cookstoves.Since 2013, BURN has sold 200,000+ high quality, locally manufactured and unsubsidized jikokoas â„¢ stoves in East Africa. These stoves have helped 1,000,000+ beneficiaries save $39 million in fuel expenditures and 626,221 tons of wood while reducing indoor air pollution by 65%. BURN currently sells ~10,000 stoves per month and intend to double sales by the end of 2017.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Conducting market research to identify new product opportunities and evaluate the potential of existing products for innovation or renovation efforts.
- Developing a comprehensive product roadmap that aligns with the company’s overall product strategy.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth product introduction into operations.
- Managing the product development process, from ideation to launch, to achieve planned timelines.
- Documenting product development processes and creating new ones as needed to improve efficiency and consistency.
- Serving as a liaison between R&D, operations, and commercial business functions to ensure product goals and strategy alignment.
- Analyzing and interpreting product performance data to inform product optimization and improvement efforts.
- Managing the product lifecycle, including product end-of-life decisions and exit strategies.
- Developing and executing product marketing plans, including pricing, promotion, and distribution strategies.
- Monitoring industry trends and competitor activity to stay ahead of market developments and identify potential threats or opportunities.
- Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and partners, to ensure successful product outcomes and collaboration.
Skills and Experience:
- 3-5 years of relevant experience, in physical product/marketing management, New Product development, and commercialization.
- An engineering background will be a significant plus.
- Strong communicator, collaborator, and hands-on manager.
- Ability to keep track of all the moving pieces in your cross-functional team and product management process.
- You have experience in managing and working cross-functionally with diverse teams that might span different time zones.
- You are not shy to ask questions and are always striving to deliver the best results, considering the complexity of the system and its requirements.