Product Manager - Variable Speed Solutions

ABB • Fort Smith, AR

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Product Manager is a key member of the Motion NEMA Motors product management team, with local (US) responsibility for the Material Movement & Specialty Solutions Business Line. The role calls for a customer-focused, collaborative professional who can deliver results with quality and speed. The Product Manager drives profitable business growth by developing products throughout their life cycle in line with market needs, product group strategy, and business targets.

ABB’s NEMA Motors Division is a global electric NEMA motors manufacturer, with more than 4,500 employees and seven manufacturing locations producing more than 1.6 million motors annually. It serves customers across many industries with safe, reliable, energy-efficient solutions and a broad modularized product offering.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of work experience, or an associate’s degree and 12 years of work experience, in a complex industrial manufacturing business environment.
• Progressive experience in product management and customer relationship management.
• Proven track record of cross-functional collaboration, excellent stakeholder engagement, a strategic mindset, and passion for driving business results.
• Must already have work authorization permitting employment with ABB in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Technical, sales, and go-to-market knowledge of AC motors and applications.

Responsibilities

• Own the regional product strategy and offering roadmap, defining technical specifications and growth plans aligned with market needs.
• Lead product lifecycle management by tracking performance, driving cost and upgrade actions, and making portfolio evolution and end-of-life decisions.
• Serve as the technical liaison between local markets and cross-functional teams, supporting development stage gates, localization, product launches, and ramp-up.
• Drive portfolio competitiveness and innovation by analyzing customer needs and market trends, prioritizing development, defining technical, cost, and price targets, and executing go-to-market and communication strategies.

Benefits

• Choice between two medical plan options: a PPO Copay Plan or a High Deductible Health Plan with a Health Savings Account.
• Choice between Core and Core Plus dental plan options.
• Vision benefit.
• Company-paid life insurance equal to 2x base pay.
• Company-paid AD&D equal to 1x base pay.
• Voluntary life and AD&D coverage, employee-paid.
• Company-paid short-term disability for up to 26 weeks.
• Company-paid long-term disability at 60% of pay, with an option to buy up to 66 2/3% of pay.
• Supplemental employee-paid benefits, including accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and pet insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Health Advocate support for mental and behavioral health, health navigation, virtual health, and infertility/adoption.
• Employee discount program.
• 401(k) Savings Plan with company contributions.
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP).
• 11 paid holidays.
• Vacation under a permissive time-away policy for salaried exempt positions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior