Product Manager, Industrial Drive Products

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.

Working as a Product Manager for Industrial Drive products in our New Berlin, WI location, you will be a key member of the product management team in Motion Drive Products, with local (US) responsibility for the Industrial drive product portfolio for PG Drive Products, BL Drives. This role requires a customer-focused and collaborative person able to drive results with quality and speed.

Reports to: Manager, Product Management

Work model: Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will be accountable to drive profitable growth of the ABB offering to the industrial market, by developing it through all its life cycle phases, according to the market needs and Product Group strategy and business targets. You will mainly be accountable for:

• Leads regional life cycle management process to define & track performance metrics, plans appropriate measures (e.g., upgrades cost cut) & make decisions on offering, obsolescence & end-of life
• Act as technical interface between external local market and internal technical cross functional teams
• Define new product plans, set technical, price, cost, and application targets
• Contributes to development of new portfolios by leading customer need and value analysis, prioritizes new product development project and coordinating cross functional teams
• Work with Global Product Management, local Product Market Manager and marketing to define the market communication strategy, including product launch planning and implementation

This role is contributing to the Motion Drive Products Division in the US. This role reports into the Manager of Product Management for Industrial and Machinery Drives with close collaboration with the Segment Product Market Managers and OEM capture teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of work experience in a complex global business environment, OR
• Associate degree and 10 years of work experience in a complex global business environment, OR
• High School diploma with 12 years of experience

Required:

• Progressive experience in product management and customer relationship management
• Proven track record of cross functional collaboration, excellent stakeholder engagement and strategic mindset and passion to drive business results
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English
• Travel up to 25%

Preferred:

• Background in sales and/or managing customer relationships across the full customer lifecycle
• Fundamental understanding of general machinery used in refrigeration systems, pumps, fans, compressors, conveyors and extruders

Team Dynamics

You will join a dynamic and high performing team where you will be able to thrive.

Benefits

Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
• Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay
• Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
• Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time Off

• 11 paid holidays
• Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy

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.

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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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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