Product Manager - Drive Products

Your role and responsibilities:

Your role and responsibilities (Mandatory)

Working as a Product Manager in HVACR in our New Berlin, WI location, you will be a key member of the product management team in Motion Drive Products, with local (US) responsibility for the HVACR product portfolio for PG Drive Products, BL Drives. This role requires a customer-focused and collaborative person able to drive results with quality and speed.

In this role, you will be accountable to drive profitable growth of the ABB offering to the HVAC market, by developing it through all its life cycle phases, according to the market needs and Product Group strategy and business targets.

This role reports into the Manager of Product Management for HVACR, Water/Wastewater & General-Purpose Drives with close collaboration with the HVACR Product Market Manager and Global HVACR Product Manager for HVACR products.

The work model for this role is: hybrid #LI-Hybrid

This role is contributing to the PG Drive Products, BL Drives in New Berlin, WI.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Owns the technical and market specifications for the regional products and determines an offering plan that supports sustainable growth
• Leads regional life cycle management process to define & track performance metrics, plans appropriate measures (e.g., upgrades cost cut) and makes decisions on offering, obsolescence & end-of life
• Act as technical interface between external local market and internal technical cross functional teams.
• Participate in product development process stage gates for regional products, own local product creation of global products and support production ramp-up
• Continuously monitor competitive offerings, evaluating competing technologies and pricing strategies.
• Define new product plans, set technical, price, cost, and application targets. Contributes to development of new portfolios by leading customer need and value analysis, prioritizes new product development project and coordinating cross functional teams.
• Drive the development of the features based on customer value and relevance to the market
• Work with Global Product Management, local Product Market Manager and marketing to define the market communication strategy, including product launch planning and implementation.

Qualifications for the role:

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of work experience in a complex global business environment, associate degree and 10 years of work experience in a complex global business environment or High School diploma with 12 years of experience required.
• Technical, Sales, and Go-To-Market knowledge of Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) and HVACR Applications.
• Progressive experience in product management and customer relationship management.
• Proven track record of cross functional collaboration, excellent stakeholder engagement and strategic mindset and passion to drive business results.
• Travel up to 15 Domestically - requires a valid driver's license.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Product Digital strategy and IOT innovation background are a plus.

More about us ABB Drive Products serves the industries and infrastructure segments with world-class drives and programmable logic controllers (PLC). With its products, global scale and local presence, the Division helps customers to improve energy efficiency, productivity and safety.

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