Director of Controls, Monitoring and Connected Products

Chemelex•Phoenix, AZ

About The Position

The Director of Controls, Monitoring and Connected Products leads Chemelex’s global portfolio strategy, product roadmap, and end-to-end delivery of new products and solutions across controls, monitoring, sensing, and connected products. The role translates industry, market, customer, competitive, and technology intelligence into portfolio priorities, guides investment decisions, and ensures new product programs achieve intended customer and business outcomes. Portfolio decisions support revenue growth, margin improvement, customer value, and competitive differentiation. The Director leads the product and program management team and partners with engineering, commercial, and operational functions to develop business cases and execute NPI programs. The role drives cross-functional execution throughout the complete NPI lifecycle—from opportunity definition and concept refinement through product development, industrialization, commercial readiness, launch, and post-launch evaluation—and monitors product and portfolio performance to inform future priorities and lifecycle decisions. The Director also shapes portfolio lifecycle direction, develops product and program management capabilities, aligns stakeholders across functions and regions, and communicates portfolio strategy, performance, program status, risks, opportunities, and recommendations to senior leadership. Domestic and international travel may be required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related technical or commercial discipline.
At least 10 years of progressive experience in product management, portfolio leadership, program management, or related commercial and technical leadership roles for complex engineered products.
Demonstrated experience leading and developing product and program management teams, with accountability for portfolio strategy and NPI delivery.
Experience managing products that integrate hardware, firmware, embedded software, and connected capabilities.
Strong technical aptitude and ability to engage credibly with R&D, Engineering, technical customers, and subject-matter experts.
Demonstrated success developing product and portfolio strategies, roadmaps, value propositions, business cases, product investment recommendations, pricing strategies, and lifecycle plans.
Experience leading complex, multidisciplinary NPI programs from opportunity definition and concept development through industrialization, commercial readiness, and launch.
Working knowledge of stage-gate, Agile, hybrid, waterfall, and other development methods, and judgment to select an approach appropriate to the product, program, and business need.
Strong financial and commercial acumen, including revenue and margin analysis, forecasting, business-case development, return-on-investment analysis, and portfolio trade-offs.
Ability to synthesize customer, market, financial, competitive, quality, and technical inputs into clear strategic priorities and executable plans.
Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, developing, prioritizing, and holding teams accountable for results.
Excellent communication, executive presentation, facilitation, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to lead across functions and regions in a global, matrixed organization with competing priorities and complex decisions.
Customer focus, sound judgment, high integrity, and bias for action.
Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required.

Nice To Haves

MBA or relevant advanced degree.

Responsibilities

Lead the global portfolio vision, product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle direction for controls, monitoring, and connected products.
Set portfolio priorities using industry, market, customer, competitive, business, and technology intelligence to support revenue and EBITDA growth.
Make portfolio and roadmap decisions covering new product development, enhancements, platform opportunities, rationalization, and buy/build/partner alternatives.
Develop and evaluate value propositions, business cases, and solution alternatives based on customer value, strategic fit, financial return, technical feasibility, and organizational capability.
Monitor portfolio performance across revenue, margin, growth, quality, product mix, product health, and return on investment; initiate actions to improve results.
Establish a fact base using market and business intelligence, voice of customer, customer workflows, win/loss analysis, competitive activity, regulatory trends, technology developments, quality performance, and warranty data.
Translate insights into technology and platform strategies, portfolio priorities, product concepts, requirements, and roadmaps.
Partner with Sales, the Projects organization, Market Intelligence, regional teams, and other market-facing functions to understand needs across geographies, applications, and segments.
Use direct and indirect customer feedback to identify and prioritize unmet needs and pain points; incorporate emerging opportunities and threats into business and product plans.
Support major customer engagements, strategic account discussions, conferences, product councils, and executive-level presentations as needed.
Account for successful delivery of portfolio NPI programs and their customer and business outcomes.
Convert approved portfolio opportunities into programs with clear requirements, value propositions, business cases, success measures, resource commitments, and integrated execution plans.
Drive NPI execution from concept refinement through development, verification and validation, industrialization, supply readiness, pricing, marketing, training, documentation, service readiness, launch, and post-launch evaluation.
Coordinate delivery of complete product offerings, including hardware, firmware, software, accessories, supporting assets, and capabilities.
Drive commercial readiness through value propositions, positioning, messaging, launch plans, sales enablement, training, and channel support.
Ensure teams have the tools, training, competitive intelligence, and product knowledge to position and sell assigned solutions.
Review program health, schedule, cost, scope, quality, risk, and tollgate readiness; resolve trade-offs and escalate material decisions or barriers requiring senior leadership action.
Strengthen planning and product development discipline, promote compliance with the company’s NPI process, and contribute to improvements in speed, quality, predictability, and business value.
Evaluate post-launch results against approved business cases and apply lessons learned to future products and programs.
Set lifecycle priorities for enhancements, quality improvements, cost reduction, value analysis and engineering, compliance, obsolescence, and product sunsetting.
Partner with Application Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Codes and Standards on sustaining needs, product improvements, compliance, and market readiness.
Drive portfolio simplification and rationalization when it improves customer clarity, operational efficiency, or financial performance, while balancing new development, product improvement, and lifecycle work.
Lead, coach, and develop the product and program management team responsible for Control, Monitoring and Connected Products.
Establish clear accountabilities, priorities, and operating expectations for product and program managers.
Hold product owners accountable for strategy, performance, priorities, and outcomes for their assigned products; hold program managers accountable for integrated planning, cross-functional execution, risk management, and NPI delivery.
Build product and program management capabilities, succession plans, and a culture of disciplined execution.
Lead across engineering, commercial, financial, and operational functions to align commitments, resolve trade-offs, and deliver portfolio and program outcomes.
Facilitate alignment among commercial, technical, operational, and financial stakeholders; drive accountability and timely decisions across cross-functional teams.
Communicate portfolio strategy, performance, program status, risks, opportunities, and recommended decisions clearly to senior leadership.