Product Lead – Platform

Product Lead – Platform & Enablers Solutions Service

Your Mission
You are responsible for the strategic success of your product line, ensuring we solve the right problems for our customers/partners and society and deliver business outcomes for the client. Concretely, this means:

Ensuring your product line has a clear, insight-driven strategy and a roadmap aligned with PES and the client's strategy
Empowering product teams to work on the most valuable problems, with the context, autonomy, and support they need
Acting as the strategic bridge between product teams, internal stakeholders, and senior leadership — making sure everyone is aligned and informed

What You'll Do

Strategy
Define and continuously refine the product line vision and strategy in alignment with PES strategy
Translate the client's strategic priorities (Robustness, Product Evolution & Efficiency, Consumer Intimacy, Flexibility & Data Services) into clear product bets

Execution

Lead the key ceremonies for your product line: product weeklies, roadmap reviews, insights reviews, and stakeholder touchpoints
Enable continuous discovery and delivery — ensuring teams talk regularly to customers, run structured experiments, and remove blockers
Represent the product line to senior leadership; serve as the primary point of escalation for product decisions
Foster alignment with departments in charge of operations, to capture their needs and to enable a feedback loop from actual operations, to ensure that the solutions of your line are continuously improved
Ensure close alignment with the key account managers of the Customers department to leverage their knowledge of our clients to shape the priorities and the design of the solutions.
Collaborate closely with other Product Leads to manage cross-product-lines dependencies and maintain portfolio coherence

People & Governance

Coach and develop your Product Managers and Product Owners across the six core competencies: Strategy, Discovery, Delivery, Marketing, Analytics, and Leadership
Define clear roles, responsibilities, and development plans for your product team
Foster a culture of discovery, evidence-based decision-making, and outcome-focused delivery
Set measurable KPIs for product success and team performance; act as the ultimate accountable owner for your product line's budget and performance metrics
Ensure effective product governance across the full lifecycle — from innovation and discovery through to in-life management and retirement

External stakeholder engagement

You are leading the stakeholder engagement for the products developed in your product line
You set the agenda and the content of the engagement with our clients and partners, to support the development of your solutions
You engage and align with the regulators at federal and regional level, and align with them on priorities and the design of the solutions

Requirements:

Product management :
5+ years of product management experience, with a proven track record at a senior or lead level
Strong experience owning a product line or segment end-to-end ideally in an energy, utility, or regulated infrastructure context
Ability to define and communicate a compelling product vision and translate it into an insight-driven, customer-focused strategy
Experience managing a portfolio of products and making prioritisation decisions based on business value, customer impact, and feasibility
Strong analytical and data-driven approach — comfortable setting OKRs, tracking product KPIs, and making decisions grounded in evidence
Fluency in agile product operating models; experience working in multi-disciplinary teams (Product, Engineering, Design, Data)
Leadership and communication
Excellent stakeholder management skills — able to navigate complex landscapes including key account managers, operations teams, and executive leadership
A coaching mindset: you build maturity in the people around you, not just the product
High emotional intelligence; able to resolve conflicts, build trust, and align teams through influence rather than authority
Content knowledge
Knowledge of energy market structures, grid operations, or flexibility services
Experience with market design for regulated product environments
Good level of Dutch and/or French and English is required.
Additional information:

Location: Keizerslaan 20, 1000 Brussels
Onsite presence: By default, a physical presence on site is required for 2 days per week.