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
Major Purpose
Product Marketing Manager
As a Product Marketing Manager within John Deere Forestry in Finland, you will help shape the future of wheeled harvesting products, including harvesters, forwarders, and harvester heads. In this role, you will turn customer understanding and market insight into clear value propositions and go-to-market plans that support successful launches and business growth. Working closely with product teams, marketing, regions, dealers, and customers, you will help bring solutions to market that solve real customer needs and create value for both customers and the business.
Your Responsibilities: • Build customer and market understanding to help shape products, solutions, and marketing priorities. • Partner across product lines, regions, dealers, and customers to align priorities and support go-to-market direction. • Contribute customer and market insight to the development of value propositions, positioning, and messaging that highlight customer value. • Partner with product and marketing teams to support go-to-market planning and successful product launches. • Use customer, dealer, and market insight to strengthen positioning, launch readiness, and commercial success. • Build alignment across the organization by clearly communicating priorities, opportunities, and launch plans. • Position requires extensive travel.
What Skills You Need: • Strong communication and collaboration skills across product, marketing, sales, and regional teams. • Experience in product marketing, commercialization, go-to-market planning, product launches, product management, or a related field. • Ability to understand customer needs, turn insight into opportunities, and support strong market adoption. • Strong business acumen and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. • Knowledge of the forestry industry, wheeled harvesting products, or related customer applications is an advantage.
What Makes You Stand Out: • Experience in the forestry industry or close work with forestry customers and markets. • Ability to use data, insight, and market understanding to identify growth opportunities and support decisions. • Experience launching new products, services, or technology and driving market adoption. • Practical understanding of wheeled harvesters and forwarders is an advantage.
Education: Ideally, you will have a bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
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 StGermainCoryP@JohnDeere.com
Please submit your application as soon as possible, no later than June 14, 2026. We will begin interviews during the application period and make a selection once we identify the right candidate.
This position is permanent, full-time open to external applicants. Starting date will be agreed separately. Salary is according to the salary grade, taking into account your experience.
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.
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