Senior Portfolio Manager, Global Data Center Thermal Solutions

Johnson Controls • New Freedom, PA

1d • $130,000 - $190,000

About The Position

The Senior Portfolio Manager owns the strategy, roadmap, and launch execution for a category of GDCS products. This is a global, cross-functional portfolio leadership role. The Senior Portfolio Manager delivers portfolio outcomes through influence across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and Program Management rather than direct functional ownership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in product management, product engineering, or technical commercial leadership of engineered physical equipment.
• 5+ years owning multiple product lines simultaneously, with demonstrated authority over tradeoffs and prioritization across them.
• Demonstrated ownership of a multi-year product roadmap that was funded, executed, and delivered measurable commercial results.
• Multiple engineered equipment programs taken through full NPI from concept to volume production, including at least one platform-level or architecture-defining program.
• Track record of authoring and successfully defending capital investment business cases at executive level, including NPV/IRR-based justification and capacity expansion justification for fabricated equipment.
• Deep technical fluency in heat transfer, HVAC, or refrigeration systems — sufficient to challenge engineering assumptions independently and hold credibility with consulting engineers and customer executives.
• Demonstrated success driving cross-functional outcomes in a global matrixed organization without direct authority over the contributing functions.
• Experience formally managing or developing product management or engineering professionals.
• Experience working directly with Sales to diagnose competitive losses and convert findings into product action.
• Global scope experience, including multi-region product responsibility and exposure to regional footprint and freight economics.
• Demonstrated ability to set direction and make defensible decisions under incomplete information and compressed timelines.

Nice To Haves

• Data center market experience, including hyperscale and colocation procurement models.
• Experience with specification influence through consulting engineers and design-build channels.
• Experience leading an engineer-to-order to configure-to-order business model transition.
• Experience scaling manufacturing capacity for large, fabricated equipment across multiple regions.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year roadmap for a category of products, sequencing investment against regional demand growth and evolving regulation.
• Define platform strategy across the portfolio to support configure-to-order delivery at scale.
• Establish clear position among products within the portfolio.
• Assess competitors with particular attention to regional specialists and cost-position players.
• Partner closely with Sales and regional commercial teams to understand where the portfolio is losing, and why.
• Maintain a live view of product, feature, cost, lead-time, and documentation gaps blocking wins; drive each to closure or an explicit decision not to pursue.
• Conduct structured win/loss analysis, with attention to cost-position and lead-time losses, and feed conclusions into the roadmap.
• Drive specification influence with consulting engineers and design-build partners so GDCS platforms are positioned early in project design.
• Recommend pricing strategy and configuration-level price architecture to Finance and the P&L owners.
• Equip Sales with selection tools, application guidance, and competitive positioning for the portfolio.
• Author and defend the demand case and business cases for capacity expansion, recognizing the long lead time between decision and available capacity.
• Supply the demand and product assumptions underpinning capex prioritization, working closely with the Director, Portfolio CAPEX.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Operations on regional footprint strategy, recognizing that freight and logistics economics materially shape competitiveness in large, fabricated equipment.
• Recommend make-versus-buy and regional sourcing positions for major components.
• Ensure every product line has a credible NPI plan with defined gates and hold Product Managers accountable to them.
• Represent the portfolio in RCLP launch programs, resolving cross-product conflicts before they escalate.
• Partner with Portfolio Industrialization on manufacturing readiness, test capability, and order flow definition for new product lines.
• Ensure launch material and sales enablement readiness with the Global Product Launch and Sales Enablement Manager.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers; set expectations, conduct reviews, and build succession depth.
• Build team capability in hardware product management fundamentals — cost engineering, supply chain economics, NPI discipline, and technical judgment under ambiguity.
• Set clear autonomy and responsiveness expectations so Product Managers operate independently within defined decision boundaries.
• Define and staff the portfolio's target structure, including justification for new roles as the portfolio expands.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and a comprehensive bonus program.
• Three weeks paid vacation in a calendar year/holidays/sick time/three PTO days in a calendar year.
• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care - Available day one.
• Extensive product and on the job/cross training opportunities
• Encouraging and collaborative team environment
• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy
• Providing Scheduling and management support.
• JCI Employee discount programs (The Loop by Perk Spot)

What This Job Offers

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