About the Role

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

ABB is the industry leader in Variable Speed Drive products. At the core of our portfolio is the Industrial Drives product line, delivering the most comprehensive range of offerings with unmatched reliability, performance, and efficiency. We are looking for a Global Product Line manager to lead our Industrial drives portfolio in the Drive Products Division.

This senior, high-impact role reports directly to the Head of Global Product Management and is responsible for shaping global product strategy, driving innovation, and ensuring portfolio competitiveness and profitability. With ownership of roadmap and market positioning, this role is critical to achieving long-term growth and strategic business objectives.

This role is open globally, but location is set in Europe, with preference for Finland (Helsinki), Italy (Sesto San Giovanni) or Germany (Mannheim). The work model is hybrid #.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead continuous business analysis of the existing portfolio and potential new portfolio items
• Analyze and track global market, technology, competitor info, customer requirements and trends and determine competitive attributes, and value proposition
• Lead approval & prioritization process for product development roadmap for Product Line working cross functionally, most notably with R&D and Product Engineering teams
• Determine long term go to market strategy and lifecycle decisions
• Foster collaboration across global Centers of Expertise (Co Es) and business units to share best practices and accelerate strategy execution
• Be a member of the global product management team
• Managing associated portfolio planning, investment and development activities across product lines
• Support M&A activities and strategic Partnerships, including Startup collaboration
• Work with global sales teams to identify key markets, segments, applications and customers to maximize Product Line growth

Collaboration / Leadership

Achieving: Commercial focus and Result orientation – Align portfolio decisions with business growth and profitability.

Leading: Managing conflict – Resolve cross-functional challenges and drive consensus.

Thinking: Strategic thinking – Anticipate market trends and translate them into actionable strategies.

Relating: Collaboration – Build strong partnerships internally and externally to foster innovation.

Self-managing: Drive and persistence – Demonstrate resilience and commitment to achieving long-term objectives.

KPIs

• Roadmap Ownership for Product Line: Ensure timely delivery and alignment of the Product Line roadmap with strategic goals
• Product Line Business Results: Achieve revenue, margin, and growth targets for the Industrial Product Line portfolio
• Product Line Competitiveness & Profitability: Maintain market-leading position through innovation and cost optimization

Qualifications

• M.Sc. Degree in a relevant field
• At least 5 years of previous experience in product management or segment specific sales role
• Proven track record of cross functional collaboration to assure successful teamwork
• Strategic mindset and passion to drive business results through people collaboration
• Dynamic profile and excellent stakeholder engagement in business networks
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English

Why ABB

Working at ABB gives you the opportunity to contribute to a healthier and more prosperous world. Add to your story by joining a passionate team, focused on pushing the boundaries of technology to drive performance, shape new business models and find new ways of working that benefit our customers, partners and society. We want you to be proud of being part of ABB.

We Care

At ABB, we care about our people and their stories. We create safe, fair, equitable and inclusive working environments in which our people can succeed and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or cultural, religious or social background. Diverse teams make us stronger. ABB is also committed to a high standard of integrity in everything we do.

We Grow

We help our people succeed and develop, and we empower them to create their own careers at ABB. Our benefits, reward and development programs encompass a wide array of offerings.

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