● Competitive salary ● Paid vacation/holidays, 10 days of vacation *** year ● Extensive products and on the job/cross training opportunities
What you will do:
● General Product Management ● Track revenue, costs, profitability and all other relevant Key Performance Indicators of product line ● Report market share by product line and identify trends, gaps and determine actions needed to grow share ● Prepare timely and accurate financial plans and forecasts for business planning. Identify major deviations between actual and plan and recommend corrective actions. ● Maintain tracking of our products and competitors’ products success within chiller product line globally (detailed by region) and identify opportunities and gaps. ● Sales & Customer Interface ● Maintain product line specific content for sales support, sales training and customer collateral. ● Use voice of customer to determine and validate requirements for existing products as well as new product developments. Focus should be on how to collect feedback in a way that determines actual customer needs/problems and what benefits of future products would be of value (not just suggested solutions/designs). ● Marketing: ● For the chiller product line, develop core positioning and messaging for product lines consistent with overall JCI strategy ● Work closely with the product portfolio managers to ensure a consistent marketing message is communicated (internal and external). ● Manage a full complement of global sales tools (energy analysis programs, system selection tools, etc.) needed by the channels to be better positioned to compete in the market. ● Support launch plans and ramp down plans for products in accordance with product development schedules and the strategic product roadmap for the product line. ● Support training program needs and materials in concert with marketing, regional support (sales and marketing), and learning and development teams. ● Product & Strategy Roadmap ● Responsible to manage all products within the chiller Product Line globally – identifying and implementing actions related to competitive positioning opportunities, identifying product gaps, predicting competitive reactions and planning product development, product line effectiveness and profitability ● Maintain product roadmap for Product Line segment that is inclusive of all products within the chiller Product Line marketed or produced in all global regions. ● Deliver the products, features, options and sales tools required to feed strategic growth plans both global and regionally focused. ● Manage product line lifecycle including phase in/phase out schedules for various plants, product extensions or option additions and value engineering. ● Identify new business opportunities for chiller product line. ● Business Planning & Competitive Analysis ● Capture market product requirements for new product developments that include the Global needs across all regional businesses. ● Assemble competitive benchmarking and position needed to complete requirements for product development projects and verify feasibility of concept product developments. ● Ensuring product developments meet customer promised expectations (performance, operation, reliability) and driving any required cross functional applications (engineering, service, sales, operations, supply chain) ● Manage or play a key role in leading the product development projects to meet critical dates and the requirements of the product development process.
What we look for (Required):
● Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical field. MBA preferred. ● 7+ years’ experience in HVAC, product management or related field. Chiller system or chiller product management experience is strongly preferred. ● Demonstrable business management skills in a product management environment and must be technically savvy, possessing strong knowledge of field and business practices relating to chiller products. ● Experience in working in a global team environment and communicating effectively across multiple cultures. ● Proficiency in Microsoft suite applications (Word, Excel, Power BI and PowerPoint) ● Good communication and presentation skills ● Fluency in English is a requirement.