John Deere
Product Manager, Forestry Digital Solutions and Machine Automation
John DeereFinland2 days ago
Full-timeProduct Management, Marketing
John Deere Forestry Oy offers innovative solutions for forestry. Our green forest machines enhance productivity in forestry operations all over the world. Advanced digital solutions support sustainable forestry practices, simplify site planning and improve fleet management. Cutting-edge operator assisting innovations make work easier and help attract future talent to the industry.

John Deere forest machines are designed and manufactured in Finland. The product development and marketing center is in Tampere, and the factory is in Joensuu. The company employs over 700 people in Finland.

Deere & Company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of agricultural, turf care, construction and forestry machines. The company's products and services help produce food, raw materials and infrastructure for the needs of a growing population.

Primary Location: Finland (FI) - Western Finland - Tampere

Title: Product Manager, Forestry Digital Solutions and Machine Automation

Major Duties

Your Responsibilities

As a Product Manager, Digital Solutions and Machine Automation for John Deere Forestry located in Tampere, Finland, you will drive the commercialization of digital solutions in support our forestry production systems. You’ll identify and prioritize customer solutions and execute the strategy to improve the operator experience, machine productivity, and increase the availability of production data for our forestry stakeholders through our cloud based, on-board, and off-board digital solutions.

  • Uncover opportunities for new digital solutions that address forestry customers’ needs and drive business impact.
  • Scope digital solution requirements in partnership with Product Line Stakeholders, Region, and ISG-Intelligent Solutions Group teams to ensure forestry digital solutions portfolio is aligned with customer and business needs.
  • Lead discovery activities to validate proposed solutions, collecting feedback from dealers and customers to refine positioning and usability.
  • Create compelling value proposition content that clearly communicates the value of new solutions and supports sales growth.
  • Develop and execute marketing launch plans, in coordination with appropriate product line stakeholders.
  • Monitor and own performance metrics specific to forestry digital solutions products —including adoption, utilization, and renewal rates—and use insights to optimize the strategy.
  • Communicate progress, learnings, and opportunities across the organization to ensure alignment and momentum in solution delivery.
  • Collaborate across the organization to deliver enabling capabilities for forestry digital solutions.

What Skills You Need

  • Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate and drive alignment across product, marketing, and sales teams.
  • Knowledge of forestry digital technologies, products, and solutions.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
  • 3 or more years of experience in product marketing, with the dealer channel, product engineering or in a related field.
  • Experience collecting and applying customer and dealer feedback to refine product and positioning.

What Makes You Standout

  • Familiarity with Forestry digital solutions, IE – TimberMatic, TimberManager, and or competitive offerings.
  • Experience in forestry industry and/or forestry industry companies.
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage data and analytics to identify opportunities and solve problems.
  • Demonstrated success in driving adoption and utilization of technology offerings.
  • Experience developing or marketing digital solutions, software, or service offerings.

Education: Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following: Business, Marketing, Engineering, or related discipline.

What You Will Get

  • Interesting, diverse and responsible work with smart, connected machines with a real team of experts.
  • Attractive compensation and employee benefits, e.g. sports and hobby opportunities, employee bicycle benefit, occupational health, health fund, annual bonus system and personnel fund.
  • Development and career opportunities in a large, well-known and international company.
  • Modern, safe and evolving working environment that we are constantly improving and in which you can participate.
  • A fair, open and equal work community where everybody can succeed.

Questions? Please contact Cory St. Germain, Manager, Forestry Product Marketing for more information [email protected]

Position is permanent and full-time and open both internally and externally. Starting date will be agreed separately. Salary is according to the salary grade, considering your experience.

Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than November 10, 2025.

We will start interviews during the application period and make the selection as soon as a suitable candidate is found.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We believe that diversity and inclusion make us stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process due to a disability or other special needs. Our application process is two-stage and anonymized. Name, age and gender are only revealed when you move on to the interview stage. This ensures that we focus on essential skills and experience in our recruitment decisions. We are a drug-free and nicotine-free workplace.

Check us out www.deere.fi

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