Product & Solution Development Manager (265723)

Job Description

Purpose of the role

Own the product and solutions portfolio for ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks, driving profitable growth by turning customer needs into market-ready, manufacturable, high added value (HAV) offers.

Main responsibilities and accountabilities Key success measures (first 12 months)

• Deliver 2–3 HAV launches (or equivalent customer approvals) with full industrial readiness and a design freezing case.
• Build and maintain a 12–18 month validated pipeline (min. 5 qualified opportunities) with clear milestones, owners, and risks.
• Improve portfolio performance by achieving an agreed margin uplift (e.g., +1~2 pts) through mix, pricing support, and cost-down actions.
• Reduce NPD execution friction by reaching ≥90% on-time milestone delivery for the active development portfolio.
• Strengthen customer impact by delivering 4–6 customer technical workshops and converting at least 2 into active projects.
  
  

Key responsibilities

• Safety leadership Lead by example on Health & Safety and compliance with Life Saving Golden Rules; conduct regular shopfloor and layer interactions and contribute to prevent incidents.
• Portfolio ownership Manage the performance and competitiveness of the current product portfolio across sites (cost, margin, quality, and lifecycle profitability).
• Innovation & launches Identify opportunities, build business cases, and lead end-to-end development and launch of HAV products and solutions aligned with strategy and industrial capability.
• NPD governance Drive deliverables across all New Product Development (NPD) stages (scope, validation, industrialization, launch readiness), with clear milestones and risks.
• Customer value selling Translate technical value into clear customer propositions; support advanced engineering discussions and enable customer teams with tools, data, and training.
• Cross-functional leadership Coordinate closely with Global R&D, plants, quality, and sales to keep a robust pipeline and ensure solutions are manufacturable on a scale.
  
  

Candidate profile Education

• Master's degree in an Engineering specialty
  
  

Experience

• Strong engineering foundation and proven ability to lead cross-functional product work from concept to industrialization in a B2B/industrial environment.
  
  

Technical Experience

• Deep understanding of materials, metallurgy, and forming/joining processes; ability to connect design choices to manufacturing reality.
• Automotive product and customer knowledge (OEM/Tier-1) with experience supporting advanced engineering and launch readiness.
• Business acumen to build value propositions, quantify impact (cost/mass/CO2), and defend technical trade-offs.
  
  

Product & Leadership Skills

• End-to-end product development discipline (requirements, validation, industrialization, launch) with structured risk and stakeholder management.
• Customer-, results-, and innovation-driven mindset; comfortable making decisions with incomplete data and escalating early when needed.
• Clear communication and reporting: turn complex topics into concise messages for customers, plants, and leadership.
  
  

Personal Skills

• Fluent business English (spoken and written) is mandatory.
• Strong networking and collaboration skills across functions and cultures; able to influence without formal authority.
• Project leadership in a multi-customer environment; able to prioritize, manage expectations, and keep momentum.
• High responsiveness and sound judgment; proactive in sharing information and enabling others.
  
  

Software

• M365
• Catia
• ANSA pre-processor
• META post-processor
  
  

Language

• Fluent in English; French and/or German will be a plus
  
  

About The Job

• Location: Paris (metro), Stuttgart, Cologne and Luxembourg (preferable)
• Occupacy: 100%
• Starting date: Immediate
• Travel time (in %): 75%
• Job schedule: Full time
  
  

About The Product And Solutions Team

Our mission is to drive the penetration of ArcelorMittal’s high-added-value products into OEM vehicle designs by influencing architecture decisions early, through differentiated, customer-specific solutions that make substitution impossible.

We operate at the intersection of market needs, R&D capabilities, and industrial scalability to convert innovation into repeatable, high-impact product and solution portfolios.

Our responsibility is not only to support generic applications, but to create system-level value that locks in adoption, strengthens competitive positioning, and delivers measurable business impact.

About Us

ArcelorMittal is a global leader in steel and mining, supplying advanced steels that enable safer, lighter, and more sustainable mobility and infrastructure.

Within this group, ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks develops and industrializes tailored blank solutions for automotive customers—combining materials expertise, process know-how, and strong manufacturing execution across multiple sites.

You will join a team that works at the intersection of customer engineering, innovation, and operations to bring differentiated, high added value solutions from concept to industrial scale.

About Us

ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel and mining company, with a presence in 60 countries and primary steelmaking facilities in 15 countries. Our material is part of the fabric of life. What we produce makes a difference – to individuals, communities, businesses and society. At ArcelorMittal, the safety, health, and wellbeing of our employees are our top priorities. We believe that every accident is avoidable, and it is essential for every employee, from the shop floor to the management committee, to hold this belief.

Our purpose is to produce ever smarter steels that have a positive benefit for people and planet. Steels made using innovative processes which use less energy, emit significantly less carbon and reduce costs. Steels that are cleaner, stronger and reusable. Steels for electric vehicles and renewable energy infrastructure that will support societies as they transform through this century. With steel at our core, our inventive people and an entrepreneurial culture at heart, we will support the world in making that change. This is what we believe it takes to be the steel company of the future.

About The Team

Do you want to make an impact? We’re looking for talented people to join a global community. ArcelorMittal is the world’s leading steel company. Our material is part of the fabric of life. Our purpose – and the reason why we exist – is to create smarter steels for people and planet. Help us develop the material that tomorrow’s world will be made of. In return, we offer endless career opportunities, international experiences in a diverse, multi-cultural organisation, working with leading experts, and lifelong learning through the ArcelorMittal University.

ArcelorMittal is the leading automotive steel maker with a worldwide presence, delivering a large scale of products, solutions and services to automotive customers with the same high quality focus in all regions.

Today, the automotive industry faces two major challenges : CO2 reduction and improvement of safety standards. Reducing vehicle weight by using lighter solutions and optimizing steel utilization are obvious ways to cut emissions, and steel offers unbeatable crash protection. ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks answers both these demands with innovative and sustainable solutions, also being able to leverage ArcelorMittal offer of decarbonized steels.

Our mission is to make cars lighter and safer, while creating sustainable mobility solutions. Join AMTB if you have the ambition to be an actor of the transformation to a sustainable world!