Product Manager

-; Montreal; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Product Manager, where you will lead the local go-to-market strategy for innovative products. This role combines strategic marketing with customer engagement, allowing you to make a significant impact in the Variable Speed Drives sector. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance product positioning and drive market success. With a commitment to diversity and sustainability, the company fosters an inclusive environment that values your contributions. If you are passionate about technology and customer satisfaction, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Retirement Plan

Accident Insurance

Healthcare Plan

Wellbeing Program

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Variable Speed Drives (VSD).
• Bilingual in French and English, required for communication.

Responsibilities

• Own local go-to-market product marketing strategy for assigned products.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Sales teams to define marketing plans.

Skills

Variable Speed Drives (VSD)

PLC Knowledge

Fieldbus Communication

Functional Safety

Bilingualism (French and English)

Customer Focus

Teamwork

Microsoft Office Suite

Microsoft Power Platform

Education

Electrical Engineering Degree

Electronics College Degree

Job description

Product Manager

At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. Write the next chapter of your ABB story.

This position reports to

Product Management Manager

Your role and responsibilities

• Own the local go-to-market product marketing strategy for assigned products including value propositions and product positioning in accordance with the global product marketing strategy. • Defines the customer value proposition per segment and channel and ensures clear communication to sales, channels and users. • Collaborates with internal Marketing and Sales teams to define the marketing plan, including marketing communication activities, training activities and sales initiatives. • Lead the market intelligence analysis by understanding and defining the current market segmentation and related offering positioning including relevant regulations and standards. • Manages different channel to market scenarios in coordination with Channel Management and Marketing & Sales to ensure best market coverage. • Support the sales organization in the local market by providing product support to sales teams including trainings. • Create demand through technical promotion, providing solutions and a value base selling approach with expert level knowledge of products and competitors offerings. • Understands customer needs in the local market by building and maintaining strong relationships with new and existing customers and partners ensuring ongoing customer satisfaction. • Identifies potential gaps in portfolio, both against competition and new market opportunities. • Own the product life cycle management at the local level from Active to Classic phase. • Escalation of product technical issues cases for assigned offering and ensures a resolution. • Develop product business cases. Collecting and analyses standards, market requirements, competitor news, customer needs and values as an input to the product development process and influence the development of product variants or features to support the local market requirements. • Oversees inventory levels and sales volumes on a regular basis to ensure ability to fulfil customer orders. • Tracks and analyzes offering performance and trends in terms of volume and profitability. • Understands relevant regulations and standards e.g. on HSE or cyber security (both external and ABB internal). • National role, Business travel 15-20% of the time (Canada, USA, Europe).

Qualifications for the role

• Electrical engineering degree or electronic college degree with a minimum of 5 years of experi-ence in Variable Speed Drives (VSD).
• Knowledge of PLC an asset.
• Good knowledge of the Canadian VSD/Automation market.
• Good factory automation and electrification best practice knowledge.
• Fieldbus communication and Functional safety knowledge an asset.
• Bilingualism, written and spoken (French and English). French is required. English is also required to communicate with customers outside Quebec on a regular basis.
• High customer focus.
• Teamwork oriented and demonstrate high level of initiative, problem solving, information seeking and eager to learn.
• Good sense of urgency and ownership.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform an asset.

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Accident insurance
• Healthcare plan
• Wellbeing program

More about us

ABB Drive Products is a technology leader serving industries, infrastructure and machine builders with world-class drives and softstarters. With our products, global scale and local presence, we help our customers to improve energy efficiency, productivity and safety. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We all together make the difference for our customers every day. We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the ninth consecutive year, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine. Consistently ranked as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Best Employers, Canada's Best Employers for Young People, Canada's Greenest Employers and a long-time recipient of the Women in Governance Parity Certification, ABB's culture and commitment is to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and supported. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage applicants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces.