With more than a century of expertise, our braking systems range from brake manipulators to friction materials, air treatment and generation, brake control and bogie brake equipment.

As Brake Control Product

Manager, you will own the strategy, competitiveness, and lifecycle performance of Wabtec's Brake Control portfolio.

Your mission is to connect customer needs, market trends, business objectives, and technology evolution to develop products that win in today's market while preparing the next generation of brake control systems for tomorrow. You will define and drive the product roadmap, product architecture evolution, modularization strategy, and platform development for the portfolio. Working closely with Sales, Technical Sales, Engineering, Sourcing, Quality, Operations, and R&D; teams, you will translate market opportunities into tangible product and business outcomes.

Define and drive the product strategy, roadmap, and technology vision for the Brake Control portfolio, aligning customer needs, market trends, and business objectives. Own the complete product lifecycle and portfolio performance, from introduction to retirement, ensuring competitiveness, profitability, and relevance in the market. Lead modularization and platforming initiatives to improve scalability, reduce complexity, accelerate development, and increase product re-use.

Drive product excellence and cost competitiveness, leading quality, reliability, lifecycle optimization, value engineering, and cost reduction initiatives. Support profitable business growth by maximizing product positioning, re-use, and competitiveness in customer bids and projects. Lead through influence,



aligning Engineering, R&D;, Quality, Sourcing, Operations, Service, and Commercial teams around portfolio objectives.

Monitor market, competitive, and portfolio performance, driving corrective actions and continuous improvement where required. Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline; Master's degree is an advantage.

Experience with business cases, cost optimization, value engineering, product improvement, or industrial competitiveness initiatives.

Fluent

English is required (other EU languages are considered a plus) Successful candidates may come from Product Management, Engineering, Technical Sales, Quality, Operations, or other relevant functions. Legal authorization to work in EU is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail sectors. Drawing on more than 150 years of experience, we are leading the way in safety, efficiency, reliability, innovation, and productivity. Whether it's freight, transit, ports, logistics, mining, industrial, or marine, our expertise, technologies, and people together – are accelerating the future of transportation.

With roots that date back to George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, and Louis Faiveley, Wabtec has always built technologies and implemented solutions for a variety of sectors that are critical to meeting the needs of customers and governments alike. Our general team of about 30,000 employees worldwide delivers performance that moves the world forward.

📌 Product Manager Support (Madrid)
🏢 Wabtec
📍 Madrid