Product Manager – IT Cooling Systems
Rittal LLC has built a strong tradition of innovation and takes pride in a progressive approach to engineering. We design and manufacture the world’s leading industrial and IT enclosures, racks, and accessories, including high efficiency, high-density power management, and climate control systems for industrial, data center, outdoor and hybrid applications.
As the Product Manager – IT Cooling Systems, you will perform market research on new products, establish timeline for developing products, influence pricing and packaging, guide sales teams, and develop messaging and market positioning around products. Responsible for articulating outbound tasks necessary to clearly explain the benefits of product features and translate them into customer-facing messaging. Establish and drive IT Cooling Systems product direction by developing, maintaining, and owning the product roadmap. Salary: $100,000 to $140,000.
Responsibilities:
- Market analysis: Identifying trends in the IT cooling market, understanding customer needs, and analyzing competitor offerings to define product strategy.
- Product roadmap development: Defining the vision and roadmap for new IT cooling products, including features, functionalities, and timelines for development and launch.
- Product design and engineering collaboration: Working closely with engineering teams to design and develop new cooling solutions, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with market requirements.
- Pricing and positioning: Setting pricing strategy based on market analysis and product value proposition, and defining the product's positioning within the competitive landscape.
- Marketing and sales support: Collaborating with marketing teams to create messaging and materials for product launches and sales campaigns, providing product expertise to sales teams.
- Customer feedback management: Gathering customer feedback, analyzing usage data, and identifying areas for product improvement
Knowledge & Experience:
- Bachelor of Arts or Sciences in Engineering, Business or Marketing
- 3+ years of product management experience in climate control products, ideally rack cooling systems.
- Must be proficient with Microsoft Office programs including Excel, PowerPoint and MS Teams
- SAP knowledge/experience a plus.
- Open to travel about 20%
What we offer is an opportunity to be a part of a team that increases the optimization and efficiency of our Global Company. Our goal is to create a safe work environment that our customers can trust us to deliver quality products. We enjoy all the benefits of an international company quickly growing in the US.
Rittal North America LLC is proud to be an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. EEO/M/F/Vets/Disabled If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may contact the company’s Human Resources Department. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability.
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Rittal North America LLC is the U.S. subsidiary of Rittal GmbH & Co. KG in Germany and was founded in Springfield, Ohio in 1982. Its parent company, Rittal, was started in Germany in 1961 and has grown to include offices in more than 70 countries and manufacturing facilities on 4 continents.
Rittal North America LLC's U.S. Headquarters, located in suburban Chicago, Illinois, is a state-of-the-art facility that serves as a customer training center, including expanded teaching resources, product testing facilities and a large-scale product showroom where customers can have a hands-on experience with the entire Rittal System. Rittal North America LLC's manufacturing center of excellence facility in Urbana, Ohio, consists of more than a half-million square feet of space to ensure that customers' production and stocking requirements are fully met. Lastly, Rittal North America LLC's distribution centers in Georgia, Texas and Nevada enable Rittal to meet the needs of its customers quickly and reliably.
Situated on a 105-acre campus, Rittal North America LLC's manufacturing facility is filled with state-of-the-art equipment and processes, and contains in-house engineering and modification services, as well as the longest non-automotive paint line in North America, stretching more than 3 miles within the confines of the factory. The on-site warehouse is outfitted with an 8-story Automated Storage & Retrieval System.
Rittal manufactures the world's leading industrial and IT enclosures, racks and accessories, including high efficiency, high density climate control and power management systems for industrial, data center, outdoor and hybrid applications. Rittal's off-the-shelf standard, modified standard and custom-engineered products are known throughout the world as high quality, affordable solutions for practically any industrial or IT infrastructure application - from single enclosures to comprehensive systems.
Rittal is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certified.
