Product Manager for Universal Relay portfolio within Grid Automation business. Leading product lifecycle and innovation for the green energy transition.
Responsibilities
Define a clear vision and strategy for the UR portfolio, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market trends.
Effectively communicate product vision, progress, and outcomes to internal stakeholders and executive leadership to foster transparency and collaboration.
Conduct thorough market research and competitive analysis to identify new trends, unmet customer needs, and opportunities for innovation.
Understand customer pain points, needs and desired outcomes through structured research and targeted engagement.
Collaborate with customer and internal stakeholders to validate, prioritize and explore solutions.
Animate cross-functional teams to brainstorm, prototype, and iterate on innovative solutions, with a focus on speed and concept validation.
Manage the entire product lifecycle, from concept and ideation through business case, development, testing, industrialization, launch, and post-launch performance monitoring.
Translate market insights and customer needs into product roadmaps, release-pacing, requirements, specifications, and user stories.
Track product performance post-launch, integrating insights and customer feedback into future development cycles.
Enhance the quality, technical, and cost competitiveness of the UR product portfolio.
Continuously analyze competitive offerings and market dynamics to drive product innovation and updates.
Partner with the Marketing team to deliver impactful collateral and messaging via all media.
Lead the Voice of Customer activities for core and new markets/segments.
Work with global sales teams to establish and maintain key customer relationships, develop and execute go-to-market strategies, and facilitate product awareness and training.
Cultivate relationships with key industry partners.
Define and monitor the operational performance of the UR portfolio, including financial results, market share and R&D expenses. Implement tactical and strategic actions for continuous improvement or course-corrections.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical & Electronic/Power Engineering, or a similar discipline
Minimum 10 years experience
Sound knowledge of power system and substation control & protection applications for the electric utility segment.
Demonstrable experience as a Product Manager developing and growing internal and external B2B relationships for Hardware and Firmware products/solutions.
Strategic thinking with high motivation, innovation, and customer-centric approach.
Knowledge and experience utilizing structured product innovation methodologies such as “Lean Startup”, “Design Thinking”, or similar.
Knowledge and experience utilizing product development methodologies such as “Waterfall”, “Agile”, etc
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