Global Product Manager

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Solon, OH
Senior level
Big Data • Hardware • Other • Energy
The Role
The Global Product Manager will oversee product line performance, driving strategies for growth, leading cross-functional teams in product development, and ensuring customer needs are met through innovative solutions. Responsibilities include conducting market research, competitive analysis, and collaborating with various stakeholders to optimize product offerings and support sales teams.
Summary Generated by Built In

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

Product Line Performance, Planning and Strategy 

  • Responsible for the global product lines and to champion cross-functional activities to maximize overall product line performance including revenue growth, margin improvement, cost reduction, quality and delivery. 

  • Develop and direct the implementation of product line strategies for growth. Develop cross-functional strategies in pricing, integrated supply chain, digital, and marketing to support growth goals. Coordinate necessary activities. 

  • Provide strategic direction for innovative growth opportunities that leverage technology trends (e.g. connectivity), market trends, and integrated solutions. 

 

Product Life Cycle Management 

  • Lead cross-functional new product development efforts.  Coordinate with Engineering and Marketing teams for the development and commercialization of needs based innovations. 

  • Conduct Voice of Customer (VOC) research to identify market requirements and trends, drive continuous improvements and to identify product enhancements opportunitiesEnsures assigned products are responsive to market needs to maintain and/or improve market penetration and share position. 

  • Responsible for building product funnels and roadmaps. Lead competitive deep dives/benchmarking. Collaborate and assist regional product managers to develop region specific funnels and roadmaps. 

  • Partner with associate product manager, market manager, and demand manager to make strategic inventory and E&O decisions. 

  • Collaborate with integrated supply chain to address areas of availability while developing strategies to improve  

 

Commercial Champion 

  • Serve as subject matter expert for assigned products to support internal team, field sales, distributors and end customers as required. Develops tools to influence buying decisions  

  • Deliver training in person and virtually to both internal and external sales teams 

  • Be proficient with training contractors in office and jobsite settings. 

 

You have: 

  • Bachelor's Degree required – Engineering (Electrical Engineering preferred) or Business

  • Desire to lead and inspire product line growth with experience in a manufacturing environment is required 

  • Demonstrated experience interacting and/or supporting both internal cross-functional and external customers in a manufacturing environment is required. 

  • Hands-on experience working with various customer types (end-users, contractors, engineers/specifiers) and various sales channels (direct, installers, distribution) is required 

  • Product Management or commercial related product experience in the industrial/mechanical/electrical space is preferred.   

  • Knowledge of the surge protection and/or lightning protection industry and standards is preferred. 

  • 25% travel, predominantly domestic 

WE HAVE:

  • A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day

    • At nVent, we believe safer systems ensure a more secure world. We connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high-performance products and solutions for mission-critical equipment, buildings and essential processes. Our solutions are helping build a more sustainable and electrified world.

    • We are a $3.3B company with a dedicated team of more than 11,000 employees around the globe. Our comprehensive portfolio of enclosures, electrical and fastening, and thermal management solutions dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, RAYCHEM and SCHROFF.

  • Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

    • We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

    • Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

  • Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:

    • Innovative & adaptable

    • Dedicated to absolute integrity

    • Focused on the customer first

    • Respectful and team oriented

    • Optimistic and energizing

    • Accountable for performance

  • Benefits to support the lives of our employees

Benefit Overview

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being.  We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for full-time employees that includes:

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.

  • A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.

  • Other supplemental benefits such as tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and legal & identity theft protection.

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other’s authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.

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Top Skills

Engineering
The Company
HQ: St Louis Park, MN
10,001 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

nVent is a global leader in enclosures, electric heat-tracing solutions, complete heat-management systems and electrical and fastening solutions. Our products connect and protect our customers’ systems in facilities where the cost of failure is very high. We help customers enhance productivity and reduce their cost of ownership by simplifying installation and minimizing downtime during operation.

Just as every idea begins with a spark, we at nVent view the dawn of every sunrise as a new opportunity to ignite innovation. Our inventive solutions benefit customers around the world every day, keeping lights on, data streaming and trains running on time.

We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of enclosures, electrical connections and fastening and thermal management solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

We are a $2 billion, high-performance electrical company with a dedicated team of 8,800 people at more than 130 sites around the world. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, RAYCHEM, SCHROFF and TRACER.

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