Product Manager - Connectivity and Accessories

ABB•New Berlin, WI

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position reports to: Manager, Product Management __ Working as the Product Manager for Connectivity and Accessories in our New Berlin, WI location, you will be a key member of the Motion Drive Products product management team. In this role, you will have local U.S. responsibility for the connectivity and accessory portfolio supporting ABB drive products, including fieldbus adapters, keypad platforms, drive configuration software tools, and related accessories. You will be accountable for driving profitable growth of the connectivity and accessories offering across Industrial, HVAC, Water and OEM markets. This includes managing the portfolio through all phases of the product lifecycle, aligning local market needs with global Product Group strategy, and ensuring the offering supports ABB’s broader drive product growth objectives. This role will require close collaboration with global product management, sales, technical support, product marketing, channel partners, OEM business development, and other cross-functional stakeholders. A key focus will be ensuring that ABB’s connectivity and software tool offering is competitive, easy to position, and aligned with customer expectations for communication, commissioning, configuration, and usability. This role reports to the Manager of Product Management for Industrial and Machinery and works closely with the Product Market Managers for Industrial, HVAC, Water and OEM products. The work model for the role is: Hybrid #LI-Hybrid} This role is contributing to the Motion Drive Products Division in the US.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of work experience in a complex global business environment, Associate degree and 7 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 required
Proven track record of cross functional collaboration, excellent stakeholder engagement and strategic mindset and passion to drive business results required
Travel up to 10%
Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English required

Responsibilities

Own the technical specification for regional product and lead regional product life cycle management
Run product development process stage gates for regional products, own local product creation of global products and support production ramp-up
Define new product plans, sets 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.

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
401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
11 paid holidays.
Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.