Global Product Manager - Data Centers
About The Position
The Global Product Manager - Data Centers plays a critical role in ensuring the successful and timely execution of data center industrialization projects, while meeting all customer requirements. The role fosters a sense of urgency within the dynamic data center business environment and drives the development of data center projects, from consolidating requirements to launching new products. The Global Product Manager - Data Center works closely with the Principal Product Manager Data Center Solutions, the PM Edge Software, and other Regional PMs to align global and regional priorities, partners with Innovation, Supply Chain, and PMO throughout product development and industrialization, and supports the regions during product launch, post-launch management, q-case resolution, and phase-out activities. Through regular portfolio reviews, the role ensures effective end-to-end management of the data center portfolio and drives sustainable growth, competitiveness, and customer value.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, natural sciences, or an equivalent combination of education and technical / professional experience
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally with a focus on hydronic systems or cooling technologies, and an understanding of data center applications.
- 5+ years of experience in the manufacturing industry for building automation or HVAC control strongly preferred.
- Global Travel requirement is 15 - 20%
- Proven track record of meeting project timelines, recognizes roadblocks and provides solution-oriented options to overcome them
- Ability to identify suitable solution approaches and executes them by involving the right stakeholders
- Collaborative and trustworthy personality with high integrity
- Analytical, structured, and fact-based problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or support such as H1B, TN, E-3, CPT, OPT, STEM OPT, or employment based permanent residence processes, now or in the future.
Responsibilities
- Support the Principal Product Manager Data Center Solutions to develop and maintain the data center product strategy and roadmap
- Actively seek customer and sales inputs in collaboration with regional PMs
- Collaborate actively during the development of new products (PCP process)
- Aligns software requirements closely with the PM Edge Software
- Timely create the required deliverables in high quality as defined in the pre-PCP and PCP processes and List of Documents (e.g., stakeholder requirements, MCD, BCC)
- Consolidate and align regional inputs and act as single point of contact for PM aspects for the PO, PMO from Innovation, and Manufacturing Engineering
- Participate in formal reviews of system requirements and other technical documentation
- Enable fast decision-making, using a fact- and data-based approach, and ensure stability of decisions
- Plan, and execute validation scenarios with internal and external customers to ensure product-market fit
- Plan and coordinate global field tests
- Support the strategic pricing for the data center portfolio together with Principal Product Manager Data Center Solutions, and the Global Data Center organization
- Define the global value proposition of the new solutions and substantiate the key selling propositions
- Drive creation of technical documentation
- Provide key milestones to regional launch plans
- Support the creation of regional launch and training concepts
- Support the Regional PMs during the creation of sales enablement, marketing, and training tools
- Support internal and external trainings of (new) products, including product demonstrations
- Support the quick resolution of quality cases
- Define preferred product offering and configurable options within VC
- Plan and track Phase-In/Phase-out transition
- Track commercial success and relevant KPIs for the data center portfolio, identify gaps, trigger root cause analysis, and suggest countermeasures
- Closely collect early market feedback and immediately trigger action
Benefits
- full range of medical, financial, and other competitive benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
