Product Manager

• Distribution Infrastructure Solutions

About ABB

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 Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division's technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division's portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world's largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division's ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.

About the Role

This position reports to the Portfolio Manager. You'll play a key role in driving profitable growth and shaping the mid-term strategy of our solution portfolio as a Product Manager for Distribution Infrastructure Solutions.

As part of the Distribution Infrastructure Agile Team, you'll collaborate across functions to develop, optimize, and maintain our solution offering—always with a focus on creating customer value. You'll take a strategic market perspective to define a compelling vision and lead innovative solution development by translating customer needs into clear product requirements.

You'll support the full lifecycle of our existing portfolio, aligning with market opportunities, Agile Unit and Business Line strategies, and targets—developed together with fellow Solution Portfolio Managers and Agile Team Members.

In addition to your Agile Team role, you'll be part of a Chapter — a professional community of Solution Portfolio Managers led by a Chapter Leader, who will also be your direct line manager. The Chapter provides a collaborative space for coaching, development, and continuous growth in your field, together with fellow SPMs from different Agile Teams.

The work model is hybrid.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that the product range of responsibility is optimized to serve the available market
• Own the technical and market specifications for the product needs and determine a business plan that supports sustainable growth
• Lead life cycle management process
• Gather and analyze market intelligence and establish vision for future offering
• Understand and define market segmentation and related product positioning in cooperation with fellow PMs
• Act as interface and node-point between the external market and the internal functions (e.g., Sales, Operations, and R&D), forecasting trends on a regular basis to ensure Operation's capability to fulfill customer orders
• Set targets and monitor product costs, giving input to Operations functions to maximize competitiveness and profitability
• Contribute to technical research and development efforts by envisioning future needs
• Define new product plans, set technical, price, cost, and capital expenditure targets
• Contribute to development of new portfolios by leading customer need and value analysis, planning the roadmap to create maximum value, follow-up of product/system/service portfolio performance
• Prioritize new product development projects with responsibility for achievement of targets (product characteristics, time, costs, quality, capital expenditure, pay-back) and coordinating cross-functional teams
• Initiate and drive product market communication strategy, including product launch planning and implementation across channels
• Define product customer value proposition per segment and channel and ensure clear communication to channels and users
• Responsible for product profitability and margin
• Monitor global sales target fulfilment and tender volumes and act as appropriate
• Define pricing strategies and ensure correct pricing is applied for all countries within relevant business areas
• Actively join in developing product management processes and tools, including interfaces to other key functions of the organization
• Initiate and drive cross-functional and cross-organization product and solution innovation teams according to market needs

Team Dynamics

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of experience preferred, working in the field of electrical/low voltage equipment
• Capacity for strategic, systemic thinking and leading peers through creating shared vision
• A collaborative, solution-focused approach, with strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Sound knowledge of low-voltage technologies, low-voltage distribution or cable distribution cabinets will be considered a plus
• Professional English-speaking skills are required; knowledge in Swedish is beneficial
• Able to travel

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.

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 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.

How to Apply

Do you want to shape the future, together with us? Submit your application in PDF format.

Application deadline: March 9th

Please note: We conduct ongoing selection, which means the position may be filled before the final application date. We kindly ask that staffing agencies, recruitment firms, and sellers of additional job advertisements refrain from contacting us directly.

Contact Information

Hiring Manager: Oskari Uitto, +358 503 34 37 95

Talent Partner: Medina Jakupovic, +46 72 464 46 98

Union Representatives:

• Sveriges Ingenjörer: Senad Hujic, +46 730 88 30 06
• Unionen: Johan Lundström, +46 730 77 03 66
• Ledarna: Lenny Larsson, +46 706 32 85 47